working! UK Speed Camera's for Medion MDPNA 150

tel33 · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:29 am Post subject:

Thats good to hear its working ok, how much was it in the end?

bemused · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 06, 2005 Posts: 8

alistairm1 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 104

Meeeeeeee,
I use POIEdit from www.PoiEdit.com to convert to and from OV2 format.

tel33 · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject:

£20 eh, thats not bad really.

I would like to know though from alistairm1 what format we would need to get the camera datbase to work with the Navigator 4 or Navagtor 3 system for the Medion MDPNA175 and how we would do it with poiEdit
Regards

tel33

bendawg · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 03, 2005 Posts: 1

Hi,

I have downloaded the zip file with everything in and copied the files into the appropriate folders. I have checked and re-checked that they are in the correct places, and I have checked that the dat files have been copied across correctly, I have also made sure that the speed camera listing is checked and set to alert at 150 yrds... but it doesn't do anything! No warnings at all...
Any suggestions?

Thanks
B :D

tel33 · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

Did you make sure that Navigator was not running when you transferred the files across?

Plus make sure that the Verbal Visual Notification is chekced in Alert Setttings.

alistairm1 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 104

tel33, sorry for the delay, I have been off the air for a few days.
I convert the OV2 file to Navio Ascii format.
This produces a file which can be copied directly into the POIWarner POI directory. From there it can be selected from the overlay management screens.
There is usually a .bmp file available to use with the overlay. These go in the same directory.

alistairm1 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 104

tel33,
forgot to mention that you use the batch convert function in POIEdit to create the Ascii file.

tel33 · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject:

Hi there alistairm1

Thanks for the info on the conversion details, I am not sure if the POIWarner works with 3.1.75_69.21CE version on my Medion MDPNA175 GPS or with the Medion Navigator 3.1D version I have with it.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks tel33

alistairm1 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 104

Hi tel33,
Unfortunately, I have only come to satnav in the past few months, so I only know what I have been able to get to work with V4.2 .
Also, my German is almost non-existant, so trying to read the POIWarner web site is a bit beyond me.

As an aside, I have been experimenting with making my own POI files (but only of my company offices How sad!!!)
I have found that you only need three fields LAT, LONG and a name.
If you have a postcode, MULTIMAP will show the LAT and LONG below the map. Copy this into a file, put a couple of commas in and a name, save as a .asc file and away you go.

Good luck in your quest for knowledge.

Regards,

alistairm1

rb5286 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 31

sorry to hijack this thread...

Bob, i'm trying to get the Shell Garage POI database to work on the PNA150, how do i convert this from the csv to a usable file on the pna?

cheers

booby · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 09, 2005 Posts: 3

Hi

Only just got the MDPNA 175 a few hours ago, I`m really interested in installing the speed camera files. Will they work with the MDPNA 175 like they do with the MDPNA 150. Am I right in assuming the MDPNA 175 is bascially a mini pc and works just like windows does?

If it all goes wrong can it be fixed by reseting it or using the cd roms that came with it.

Cheers for any info

Rob

tel33 · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:57 am Post subject:

Booby.

If you do this then you will have to make a backup via activesync on a pc, this will ensure that you can reload it all back in if it goes pear shaped which in my experience it can.

So far it has worked on my MDPNA175 but I have version 3.175_69.31CE of Medion Navigator and it runs on WinCE NET 4.2 core so make sure yours runs on that otherwise I cant really say it will.

Its your choice.

Regards

tel33

booby · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 09, 2005 Posts: 3

I have version 4.4 (thats what it says on the screen when you press the navigator button) I`ll have a try and see if it works.

bob

booby · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 09, 2005 Posts: 3

Hi

The program file is not called navigator.exe but instead mnavdce. It is also 2.14 mb, so about twice the size of version 3. I`m thinking that it has the extra files like the auto alert.dat files included within the program file. This will explain why it doesn`t need them. I might go back to version 3 and see if it works.

Rob

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