POICapture for TomTom Navigator 5

pitch3110 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 15

Before i start i am a novice. Just saved the above to pc & trying to get up & running on PDA via activesync. Can any one give me idiots guide to get it running. i have previous camera data base working fine. Help

Privateer · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject:

Hi pitch3110,

Welcome

to the forum! Thumbs Up

pitch3110 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 15

Robert,

Firstly thanks for replying.

Yes i wish to install the latest carmera databasedetails emailed to me on the 11 Dec.

I am using an XDA11i with tomtom navigator 5 gps version v1.20.

Hope this fills in some grey areas.

Regards
Paul

Privateer · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:

Hi pitch3110,

If you have already used the PocketGPSWorld camera database then you just download the new version and copy the .OV2 files of your choice to the map folder on your storage card and overwrite the previous .OV2 files.

There are some guides that should be read (in the following order):

The beginner’s guide to the PocketGPSWorld camera database.
This explains about the different camera types and about categories and subcategories, so that you can decide how you want the database on your unit.

Depending on whether you have TomTom Navigator on a Pocket PC or TomTom GO, please read either:

How to install (camera database) POIs to TomTom Navigator 5.
This guide explains how to load the PocketGPSWorld camera database onto a Pocket PC running TomTom Navigator 5.

How to install (camera database) POIs onto a TomTom GO, Rider, or One.
This guide explains how to load the PocketGPSWorld camera database onto your TomTom GO, Rider, or One.

Once you have installed, set up, and used the PocketGPSWorld camera database for a while on your TomTom SatNav system. You may want to share and send in details of cameras yourself. You can do this by using the PocketGPSWorld POI Capture utility:

The PocketGPSWorld POI Capture utility.
You do not need the PocketGPSWorld POI Capture utility on your TomTom SatNav system in order to use the PocketGPSWorld camera database. However if you want to send in camera details then POI Capture makes the process of recording cameras much easier on TomTom Navigator and GO (original, 300, 500, and 700). At the moment POI Capture will not work with TomTom Rider, One, and mobile. This is for a technical reason, which we hope, will soon be rectified by TomTom.

The above guides may look lengthy and complicated when first seen. However if you grab a cup of coffee and read each one thoroughly then they should make sense as they have been written in a step-by-step way, for ease of reading.

Regards,
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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

pitch3110 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 15

Robert,

Top man all done, easy when you know how & open your eyes abit.
Many thanks indeed.
First time ever on a forum & the system works.
Now going to find some cameras

Regards
Paul

Privateer · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject:

Hi pitch3110,

Glad that you’re all sorted. Thumbs Up

Have you got both the PocketGPSWorld camera database and POI Capture installed on your XDA IIi?

pitch3110 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 15

Robert,

database has be downloaded from pocketgps.
i dont have the poi capture add on installed & if there were benifits it would be handy.
what do you think?

Regards
Paul

Privateer · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject:

Hi Paul,

You don't need POI Capture to use the PocketGPSWorld camera database ...

... however, if you spot a new camera then it's very easy to use POI Capture to record all of the attributes of that camera. It's also easy to submit the cameras via the website.

The more people that have POI Capture installed, the more people that can send in updates and thus keep our database as accurate as possible. Thumbs Up

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

broomlands · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 03, 2005 Posts: 4

I have not had good experience with camera poi capture from other camera database suppliers. It seems that they did not check the data out and just loaded the cameras, false or otherwise, onto the database. This meant that you got so many false alarms the whole database became quite useless and I stopped using them. I then discovered Pocket GPS.
To date I have found the database at P GPS W to be excellent so I hope that the database will not become corrupted with false input.

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