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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject: Cheers to all
Hello richard345, MaFt just read the info again and see what you are saying I thought it was a case of no more than 20 categories not a case of including sub categories, cheers for every ones input and help it appears I will have to be patient and download ne category at a time once again cheers everyone Jez Stix
P.S after your input richard345 will have to download each category 3 times as i have the maps for Europe USA/Canada & New Zealand
Joined: Mar 09, 2008 Posts: 463 Location: Rainhill, Lancashire Not Merseyside!
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:00 am Post subject: Re: Cheers to all
jezstix wrote:
P.S after your input richard345 will have to download each category 3 times as i have the maps for Europe USA/Canada & New Zealand
I think it would be safer and more accurate that way.
There have been a number of posts in the past regarding the actual number on POI categories that PNDs of various manufacturer.
With TomTom, I believe you are limited to around 210 categories and if you have more, some are not shown on screen. Which ones are not shown appears to be random, so sometime one type of POI will not show, and then on another occasion, other categories will not show! _________________ Ric - TomTom 520 DEAD - Passed to the great traffic jam in the sky. Now using Maps & Waze on Samsung Galaxy S4 + CamerAlert of course!
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject:
I think it will be less categories than 210. For TomTom v7 software it is usually 169 categories allowed.
I'm a bit confused when you said you wanted to put them all into one file (in your 22:41 post).
If you did that, they would all share the same icon on screen so you wouldn't have a clue what was going on.
The TomTom can only show ONE icon per POI category, so if you want one icon for petrol stations and one icon for post offices, that needs TWO category files, but if you want one icon for Shell petrol, one icon for BP Petrol, one icon for post offices - that's THREE POI files.
That is why there is the option to combine subcategories - some people will want all the petrol stations in one generic file, others may want them separate, or they may only want one brand.
However, if the choices available on the download page are too limited, once you have downloaded the files you need, there are programs like POIEdit (http://www.poiedit.com/) that can merge several files together, or split them up in various ways.
If you use it, you "open" the first file, then "append" the others and finally "save as..." with a new name.
But as always... if you do merge files, you will only have ONE icon on screen for all of them.
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Andy_P
jezstix wrote:
Running your own company will do this to you, if you want to get ahead in life. to follow will be the issues
give us a job??? on second thoughts perhaps not!!!!
i've only been a member of this forum for a short while... and if you ask nicely then the help you get is second to none!!! big al......
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