How to install (camera database) POIs to TomTom Navigator 5+

booboo2006 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi

I a PDA with Tom Tom Nav 5 software I have followed the instructions but it don't work!!!!!

Please can someone help me by phoning me on:

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07717 505434
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I will phone you straight back

Regards
Lee

Oldboy

booboo2006 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 2

POI

Cheers
Lee

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject:

Have you downloaded the correct Version for your Operating System?

There are 2 flavours for PDA, as shown here.

Did you follow these instructions.

phirana · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi,

Dont know whether this helps - i found all the above not really useful so i decided to play around with navigator 5.

1) Backed up tomtom SD to pc
2) Down loaded database
3) Copied database to storage care\Great_Britain-Map\
(pocketgps_uk_sc.ov2 and pocketgps_uk_sc.bmp)
4) Restarted tomtom
5) Change preferences | Manage POI | Add POI | and selected pocketgps uk sc

And it now works Smile

Hope this helps

mikealder · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:07 am Post subject:

Phirana, I would also go to Change Preferences/ Manage POI/ Warn When Near POI and set this up so you get a warning of the approaching camera - Mike

phirana · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 2

Sorry,

I figured that out after I posted Smile

cadey · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 25, 2006 Posts: 1

hi guy's and girls new to all of this just downloaded the camera database to my pda running tomtom5 whilst driving when comeing up to a speed camera i get the pic of a camera on route but no audio alert is this right or am i doing something wrong please help. thanks

meggles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 8

i've downloaded the files, unzipped them, copied both the .bmp & .osv to the folder which contains the Great Britian Map.

I've done a soft restart of my ipaq.

when i open TomTom, Change Preferences, Manage POI, Enable/Disable POI, I just see the usual list of airport, beaches, etc. i don't see any speed camera options.

what am i missing here in the installation process? thanks in advance.

mikealder · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

Are you sure you have put the correct down load on to your device? as it is a TomTom unit you need the BMP and ov2 files, please check what the file extension is that you have loaded - Mike

meggles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 8

i've dowloaded the bmp & ov2 files. all in all there are 8 files.

mikealder · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

Go to Change Preferences/ Manage POI/ Warn when near POI and see if they are listed in here?

There is a limit of 39 Custom POIs on TomTom vs5 and 100 if using a Go device running vs6, if you have loaded any other POI's and exceeded the limit this may explain the fact the POI's are on the card but you cannot see them in the application.

If you are not too sure what custom POI's are on the device, look at the card through file explorer and count how many files have the ov2 file extension - Mike

meggles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 8

good suggestion - but already tried looking in POI warnings. not their either.

i haven't downloaded any other POI onto this ipaq pocket pc. in fact when i go to manage POI only three of the six options are in color. i don't have the ability to clink on "add POI", "Delete POI", "Delete POI Category".

i've also tried deleting all these files and then reinstalling them from scratch.

mikealder · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

Try downloading the file again, then unzip the download placing the files into the map folder on the device, if you are using the consolodated by type installation you should have 5 bmp files, 5 ov2 files, 2 txt files and a htm file. Only copy the ov2 and bmp files to your card. - Mike

meggles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 8

thanks for your patience. i was saving them to a file on the "hard drive" of the pocket pc, rather than the storage card. all done!!! yippee!!! question-how many yards does everyone set their warnings for? is 300 yards enough?

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