Speed Camera icons

flex_won · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 28, 2004 Posts: 15

I have downloaded the speed zoned speed camera icons for use in my TTG Classic. They are named according to the speed zoned Ov2 files and display correctly in menus (such as manage POIs) alongside the POi category name.

I've noticed that the displayed speed camera icons change on screen. When in the normal route mode I get the speed camera warnings and the speed zoned icon is displayed. But as I get closer, the speed zoned icon changes to a standard speed camera icon (the black camera icon). This seems to coincide with the spoken warning but I'm not sure if this is coincidence.

I am running ver 5.2 with the latest camera database. The speed zoned icons were extracted from the camera database zip file. I have checked that all the icon bmp names are the same as the POI category name and that all unused icon bmps have been removed.

Any ideas if this is working as expected or if I have got something wrong in the set-up?

Thanks.

rkm_hm · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject:

Are you using both the zoned and unzoned files, so that you get two warnings per camera? If so, you need to set them at different distances - otherwise the poor thing will get confused. I have set mine so that I get a gong from the unzoned camera at (say) 500 yards and then a spoken warning such as "Warning, Speed Camera 40 mph" as I get closer.

I'm not sure which icon it displays - I don't usally look, because the spoken warning is sufficient - but if it has two co-incident POIs, it will only be able to display one icon.
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flex_won · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 28, 2004 Posts: 15

Hi Roger,

Thanks for that. I did think about that so I removed the SC ov2 and bmp file so it should only be the speed zoned files in there.

I don't have the TTG with me right now but I will double check tonight.

Regards.

JohnTT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 55

Did you find the answer to this because I've got the same problem. I also thought it might be the temporary speed camera ov2 file clashing with the mobile ones but I disabled the temporary one and it still has the problem.

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject:

None of the files from the speed-zoned set of files should clash with eachother, but if you have previously installed either the single file version or the consolidated-by-type set, then they will clash with the speed-zoned set.

JohnTT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 55

I think it's a file called "pocketGPS_UK_Temp.ovp" and bmp that was causing the problem after all. I thought I'd turned it off but it was enabled.

The file comes with the "UK-Speed zoned complete" download after the Tom Tom Home selection - I've just checked.

This file comes with the black and white speed camera icon (which I was seeing) and is set to a shorter distance than the "mobile" camears hense the second warning and replacement of the icon as you approach. So there does seem to be a clash with the correct download. Confused

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

Well it's a bit of a mystery...

Just for fun, I took all the Gatso, Mobile, Redlight and SPECs files from the latest camera database download, and I merged them with the TEMP file into one big file (using POI Edit).
I then asked POI Edit to search for duplicates, which took an age, but eventually reported just ONE double:
MOBILE:14791@30 and GATSO:2304@30

So if you are using ALL the latest download files there SHOULDN'T be any other clashes.

The only other possibility is that this month there are no SPECs with unknown speed limit. Early versions of the download didn't have an 'empty' SPECs_tba file, so the old file might not have been overwritten. But that doesn't seem the reason in your case.

JohnTT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 55

Thanks for helping out with this one Smile

. Having tested it again I was still getting the black and white standard speed camera icon, despite having turned off the Temp POI.

The only other file with the standard icon was "pocketgps_uk_sc.ov2" and bmp which I still had in the map folder. This POI was certainly turned off through the Tom Tom interface so shouldn't be causing a problem. Or could it???

Despite this database being turned off I deleted this POI category through the Tom Tom interface as an experiment... and then..... hey presto... problem solved 8O !

So why was it still enabled when it was disabled???

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:28 am Post subject:

Erm....

But you got it working ok, so Smile

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:00 am Post subject:

...and you might want to re-install the pocketgps_uk_temp.ov2 and .bmp files that you deleted, because they ARE part of the speed-zoned set. So at the moment you're missing some cameras.

JohnTT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 55

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