new user.please help

babybellebooboo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 5

hi,wondered if anyone is prepared to start at the beginning about downloading poi's on to my brand new tomtom go 500.only bought it yesterday so am very confused as to what to do.please please take pity on me.many thanks

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

Before you do anything to your TTG, do a complete backup of the SD card to your PC.

Connect the TTG to the PC and select the SD card (labelled TomTom), and Copy/Paste this to a Folder on your PC.

As I don't know how proficient you are with a PC, 1 step at a time?
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babybellebooboo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 5

thanks so much richard.done that and now what.many thanks in advance

BrianI · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:

As a new 500 user myself, see my reply in a similar topic
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=25644

Brian

babybellebooboo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 5

thanks brian,ill give it a whirl

babybellebooboo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 5

sorry for being an idiot but once i download poiedit then what do i do? pleaeaease

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

You don't need PoI edit.

Just download the PoIs and you will have lots of files.

The GO only uses the ones ending in .ov2 and .bmp.

Throw away any that end in anything else, unless it's a "Read Me". That is, chuck the .csv .wav .xls etc files.

the .ov2 and .bmp files work in pairs. ov2 is the data and .bmp is the icon. Names will be (must be) exactly the same.

Open the GO as a removable drive when connected to your PC.
Drag and drop the pair of .ov2 / .bmp files into the Map folder of choice (usually Great_Britain_Map or similar).

Use "safely remove hardware". when removed., unplug GO and it should work.

You can then set up warnigs and distances if you need them for each PoI group.
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BrianI · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject:

If you want to use POI-Edit go to AUTOUPDATE then AUTOUPDATE MANAGER, then click on pocketgps site and update. You will then see all the POI's . You need your GO connected to the computer USB and you should see that as another drive. In POI-edit select which one you want add using the + icon to the great_britain_plus-map folder on your GO. When you have selected all you want click AUTOUPDATE NOW in bottom right hand corner.

Brian

babybellebooboo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 5

thanks sgould,i think i got it.one more ???????
do i need the inf. file?many thanks :D

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

I have autorun.inf in my GO. Don't know what it does.

Take no notice of the file extensions. They mean something different in Linux.
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