moving POIs into categories

navtrav · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:43 am Post subject: moving POIs into categories

How can I transfer all my different camping/aires POIs on my 730GO into one category. In fact will doing so help?

For example, when I click on 'find nearest supermarket' I get a list of all the major ones and how far away they are. How I managed to group them all together I'm not sure.

But that's what I want to happen when I click on say 'Camping'. I want it to then list whatever's nearby. I have separate POI files for CCC, CC, French aires and campsites, another lot for Spain and Archie's excellent all of Europe list.

Come towards evening, I haven't time to tell TomTom to search each file in turn? And that brings me back to my original question - how to group these different POIs under one search.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Tim

mikealder · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:47 am Post subject:

Tim, you need to concatenate the various files in a single POI file for the device, to do this I use a PC application called POIEdit which is very easy to use, try a search for POIEdit or try Here - Mike

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navtrav · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject:

Daggers · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject:

Open one of your POI files, then select File ... Append. You will be prompted to open another file, which will be added to your existing one.
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Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject:

I do exactly that, every time I download the verifiers speed camera files. (Sometimes it is useful to have them as separate types, sometimes I want a single file with them all in).

So, the drill in POIEdit is:
"Open" the first file
"Append" the second file and all others one by one.
then "Save as..." the combined file with a new name.

Calomax · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

Then when you've done that you can ask it to find, select & delete any duplicates, then save the results as your one POI category.
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navtrav · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject:

Brilliant. Thanks one and all.

I did find that as it was such a big file the 'find duplicates' took more than two hours!

Hey, I've got the result I wanted.

Next I was wondering about a .bmp symbol. What I've done is renamed one of the symbols I was discarding after amalgamating the files to the name as that of my new mega-merged file.

Thanks again

Tim

dhn · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject:

A little late, I guess...

But here's a link to an application that finds and deletes duplicates.
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