Adding a POI

Pagemakers · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject: Adding a POI

I am trying to add POI to my TT1 but the only categories it is allowing me to assign it to are POIs that I have imported myself. Can I not assign it to one of the existing categories?

TM · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject:

I'm afraid not - the built in ones are "read only". Sad

Pagemakers · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject:

Epic · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 26, 2006 Posts: 11

Wouldnt it be a simple matter of taking read only off Laughing Out Loud

Pagemakers · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

Privateer · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:

Hi Pagemakers,

You can only add a POI to a custom category (i.e. ones that either you have created or downloaded, e.g. an .OV2 file). You cannot use the TomTom ONE to add a POI to any of the existing default POI categories that came with your TomTom ONE.

All of the default POI categories that came with your TomTom ONE are kept in a single file called POI.DAT. It’s not permitted to edit existing POIs found in the POI.DAT file.

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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

AFAIA there's a couple of aspects of this that I haven't seen discussed much:

Have the inbuilt POIs been improved with subsequent map releases?

Do TomTom compile the POIs or do they buy them in from TeleAtlas (or elsewhere)?

Should we be sending in reports of errors just like we do with map errors?

Is there any chance that they will release POI updates as a (free?) downloadable, or only with new maps?

MarkHewitt · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks!

Answers all as I guessed they'd be though... Sad

Kingscoop · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 8

Whilst you can not legally add poi's to your existing poi.dat file you can delete the existing file and build your own poi.dat file. I was very frustrated to find numerous entries such as swimming pools and libraries where the nearest entry was in France. Got it all sorted now - deleted the categories that I don't need and managed to shrink the file by 50%

Note that you can not change category names.

Full details can be found here

http://www.licour.com/gps/create_ttpoi/create_ttpoi.htm

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