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Joined: 30/12/2002 17:36:20 Posts: 4916 Location: Oxfordshire, England, UK
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:24 am Post subject: Beginner’s Guide
Introduction
This is not intended as an instruction on how to use the PocketGPSWorld (PGPSW) camera database with your SatNav set-up. It is purely an explanation of the camera database, how it’s spilt up into camera types (categories) and subcategories, and the files that make up the database.
Camera types in the database
There are currently five main categories in the PGPSW camera database; some of the main categories are also subdivided into speed related sites. The main categories are:
Gatso: Fixed camera locations. I.e. mainly Gatso, Truvelo, Monitron and RedSpeed speed cameras.
Mobile: Locations where Safety Partnership camera vans and police regularly check your speed.
pMobile: Mobile locations (see above) that have been submitted but not confirmed as valid.
Redlight: Traffic light cameras
SPECS: Also called Section cameras. This uses digital cameras that photograph your vehicle and number plate as you pass each camera. The system then automatically calculates your average speed over the section (distance divided by time).
Continental: Locations on the continent, i.e. mainland Europe.
There is another category, which contains all of the above categories, except for the Continental one. It is for UK users who have SatNav systems that can only use a limited number of POI categories at time. The category is:
Single File Version
Up until October 2008, there was an additional category called Temp for temporary camera installations, e.g. Road works. The Temp category was never divided into sub-categories for speed zones and was originally designed for fixed cameras such as Gatsos. However as other types of categories (e.g. SPECS) also were being used as temporary camera installations on Road works it was decided to incorporate the temporary cameras into their category type and prefix those camera sites with a "T". This allows all Temporary sites to now be speed zoned.
Subcategories: speed-zoned
The categories Gatso, Mobile, and SPECS are also available as being further split into speed-zoned subcategories.
The main categories hold the full list of locations.
The subcategories have the same name as the main category but they have a suffix of the speed limit and only contain the locations that relate to a particular speed limit. NB if you want to use the subcategories then you need to load and activate all of them else you will not be warned!
Gatso: Full list of known fixed speed cameras. You can either use this or all of the following subcategories:
Gatso_20: Known fixed speed cameras in a 20 mph limit
Gatso_30: Known fixed speed cameras in a 30 mph limit
Gatso_40: Known fixed speed cameras in a 40 mph limit
Gatso_50: Known fixed speed cameras in a 40 mph limit
Gatso_60: Known fixed speed cameras in a 60 mph limit
Gatso_70: Known fixed speed cameras in a 70 mph limit
Gatso_tba: Known fixed speed cameras without a recorded speed limit.
Gatso_var: Known fixed speed cameras with a variable speed limit.
The Mobile and SPECS categories can also be split into subcategories, like the Gatso ones above. However neither Mobile nor SPECS yet has a "var" subcategory.
Which SatNav packages can use the camera database?
An updated list of compatible devices can be found here complete with linked installation guides and in some cases installation videos.
Makeup of the camera database files
Each category or subcategory of the PGPSW camera database is an independent POI (Point of Interest) and may be made up of two files:
1. The actual database (compulsory for all packages):
.OV2 for TomTom, .CSV or .XLS for non-TomTom
2. The icon (.BMP) to show the camera location on the screen.
Needed for TomTom, other packages may not require it.
If you wanted to load the PGPSW camera database of UK fixed cameras in a 30 mph speed limit, then you would need the following files:
For TomTom SatNav packages
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.bmp
For ALK CoPilot SatNav packages, up to version 5
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.xls
For ALK CoPilot SatNav packages, version 6 onwards
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2
For Navman SmartST V3 SatNav packages
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.csv
For Microsoft AutoRoute / MapPoint
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.csv
For ease of reading, we'll no longer use the File extensions (i.e. .OV2, .CSV, or .BMP) in this documentation. Please remember that depending on your SatNav package, you will either need the .OV2 and .BMP files, or you will need the .CSV and .BMP files. Thus the above example of UK fixed cameras in a 30 mph speed limit will now be referred to as:
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30
What PGPSW camera database categories do I need?
Well it is down to personal choice and the limitations of your SatNav package. If you were to stay in the UK there are 3 levels of options:
Option 1 (single file POI)
As stated above, this category contains all of the above categories, except for the Continental one. It is for UK users who have SatNav systems that can only use a limited number of POI categories at time:
pocketgps_uk_sc
Option 2 (4 main categories)
This is just the main categories and none of the subcategories that show speed limits:
Option 3 (23 files comprising of both main and sub categories)
If you want the above but with subcategories of the Gatso, Mobile, and SPECS databases to show speed related cameras:
There are almost an endless amount of combinations of the above. Please don't forget that:
1. You can use a combination of speed-zoned sub-categories of one type with non-speed-zoned categories of another type, i.e. speed-zoned Gatso and Mobile with non-speed-zoned SPECS.
2. If you use speed-zoned sub categories use all of the sub categories (else you won’t get warnings for every site) and don't use the full category with the sub-categories (else you will get duplicate warnings).
Where do I find the PGPSW camera database? (Edited by robbrady: Sorry, POIEdit is not currently supported - this may be just a temporary situation.)
The best way, if your set-up allows, is to use the PoiEdit program to use the PocketGPSWorld POI-Sync service. Once set up, you just connect your system to the computer and run the program to update all the categories of the camera database – and any other POIs that you use from the PocketGPSWorld POI download section.
Alternatively, you can download the zipped file and manually copy the required categories to you SatNav system. If you wish to use speed-zoned categories then you will need to look in different folders in the zip file, they are in the "speed zoned" folder and then the "gatso", "mobile", "specs" sub-folders depending on your requirements.
Miscellaneous information
The camera database was set up, in the beginning, only for fixed site cameras (e.g. Gatso, Truvelo, etc) and was originally called pocketgps_uk_sc, which is why you may see reference to the pocketgps_uk_sc file in some documentation on this website.
Some of the camera identification numbers are suffixed with the "@" sign and a number (e.g. 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70). This indicates the speed limit for that camera. NB speed limits can change, so please let us know if you find that the recorded speed limit for any camera in the PocketGPSWorld database is wrong.
This post is a "living document" and thus will be updated as and when necessary. Links to other guides will appear in the future, i.e. guides about installing the PGPSW camera database, and using it with specific SatNav packages.
Posts in this thread may be deleted, so as to keep the thread as short as possible. However relevant suggestions or questions (and their answers) will be added to this post. _________________ Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D
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Could I ask a coupe of questions? You say here we can either downloads the full list or the speed zoned subcategories. Does the full list give you the exact same info as the speed zoned sub categories? I just wonder why I would choose one option of download over the other.
Also, as I run CoPilot Live 5 I need to download csv and bmp files but what about the xls files? What are these for? And do I also need to downloads all those wav files in the database?
I think I may have spent an hour downloading the wrong files!
Joined: 30/12/2002 17:36:20 Posts: 4916 Location: Oxfordshire, England, UK
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:
JackieD wrote:
Could I ask a coupe of questions? You say here we can either downloads the full list or the speed zoned subcategories. Does the full list give you the exact same info as the speed zoned sub categories? I just wonder why I would choose one option of download over the other.
Yes the full list does give you the exact same info as the speed zoned sub categories. If you are using TomTom Navigator 3 with an add-on POI detector, or TomTom Go, you can assign different sounds to alerts so that you know the speed limit of the camera if you’re using the subcategories. If your SatNav system can’t handle too many custom POIs then you just use the main category POIs.
JackieD wrote:
Also, as I run CoPilot Live 5 I need to download csv and bmp files but what about the xls files? What are these for? And do I also need to downloads all those wav files in the database?
No, if the CoPilot guide says you just need the .BMP and .CSV files then just use those. I have CoPilot5 but I’ve never used the camera database on it as it is much easier on the TomTom products. I don’t think that you can use the .WAV files on CoPilot.
Regards, _________________ Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D
I am a bit confused now. The CoPilot instructions tell me to download the ov2 files but your own guide says ov2 is for Tom Tom only and that non Tom Tom should downloads csv & bmp.
Joined: Mar 11, 2004 Posts: 1199 Location: Park Gate
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:
The files you need to import into CoPilot are the .XLS files. _________________ Graham.
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Joined: Feb 20, 2004 Posts: 1154 Location: South Lancashire, UK
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject:
JackieD wrote:
I am a bit confused now. The CoPilot instructions tell me to download the ov2 files but your own guide says ov2 is for Tom Tom only and that non Tom Tom should downloads csv & bmp.
Yes that can be confusing. All the pages for the different systems, such as CoPilot, AutoRoute, Navman etc... all incorrectly give reference to TomTom and ov2 files.
These pages need to be amended to reflect that CoPilot uses .xls, Autoroute uses .csv and Navman used .csv (after editing out the top line) _________________ Ian.
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Joined: Mar 11, 2004 Posts: 1199 Location: Park Gate
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:57 am Post subject:
JackieD wrote:
Thanks Graham. Thankfully, that's what I did.
Would you happen to know why CoPilot crashes when I try to open 'manage database?'
Hope you don't mind the supplementary Q.
Cheers
The only time It happened to me was when I imported an .xls file that had a couple of errors in it. _________________ Graham.
TT Go720, App:9.510(1234792.1) OS:842337
GPS: V1.20, Boot: 5.5279, Home: V2.9.5.3093
Map: Europe V910.4892
Map: Europe_Truck V870.3421, Kingston 8GB SD
Nokia 925 Windows 8
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject: Updating Speed Camera database on TomTom3/Palm Tungsten T3
I've been happily using the January release of the Speed Camera database to display and audio signal all types of camera including gatsos at the various speed limits on my Tom Tom 3 card/Palm Tungsten 3 Bluetooth set up. I just downloaded and installed the current version (Feb/Mar 05 dates) and first deleted the existing files on the TomTom card as per instructions. Now I find there is not room to install the gatso speed categories and matching bmp/wav files. I wonder if there are some files I can delete from the TomTom card (which is the one which came with the TomTom package) to make room for them. On my Great Britain-map subdirectory on the TomTom card, I can see CSV files which were part of the 31/01/05 database. Can I get rid of those? I've got the overall OV2 files for each category of camera, but so far only found room for the gatso_20 and gatso_40 speed subcategories. Anything else you can suggest I can get rid of to make room for the others? And I presume that I need to use the inbuilt TomTom warning beeps rather than the specific WAV files that come with the download, as there doesn't seem to be room on my card for those either.
All the speedtrap software and databases I've seen are for Great Britain. Is there anything like this for people in the US, or do we just have to get tickets?
Joined: 02/05/2003 13:22:34 Posts: 32 Location: United Kingdom
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject: New UK Gatso and UK Mobile OV2 files
Do the speed zoned mobile OV2 files cover the pocketgps_uk_mobile file, as per the Gatso speed zoned files? Or do I need to load the pocketgps_uk_mobile file as well? _________________ Where the Fucawi??
Joined: 14/09/2002 20:56:18 Posts: 5231 Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: New UK Gatso and UK Mobile OV2 files
Fucawi wrote:
Do the speed zoned mobile OV2 files cover the pocketgps_uk_mobile file, as per the Gatso speed zoned files? Or do I need to load the pocketgps_uk_mobile file as well?
You only need one or the other, as per the gatso speed zoned files. _________________ Tim
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