POI import in C710

ernest_mio · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 98

SallyAnne - it was a bit of a wind up as your previous posts clearly identify your not interested in POI only Speed cameras.

Thanks for the advise about the editing the file - but having screwed my C710 up once already I'm keeping well clear of unlock mods at the moment.

Sallyann · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 23, 2006 Posts: 768

No problem!
But don't worry about unlocking the 710. If anything goes wrong you can simply reinstall from the CD's. I don't think anyone has everr damaged the device.

Sal

ernest_mio · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 98

Exactly what I had to do.

Crying or Very sad

DeeJay01 · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject:

Hi all,
I'm sorry but i must have the blonde sindrome Laughing

(no offense).
I know that I have backed up the POIs on my MIO C710 before but i must be forgetting a step. Crying or Very sad

I get the iGO.db file from the Mio.
I then use poiconvert and select (iGO.db to iGO.kml)
I end up with a iGO.kml file which I cannot open with POIedit. Rolling Eyes

I can used notepad to view the code a sample at the start looks like this:
(I've changed the "<" to "(" and vice versa)

(?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?)
(kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0")
(Folder)
(name)iGO POI(/name)
(Folder)
(name)Audi Dealers(/name)
(Placemark)
(name)Audi at 151 Kyle Street(/name)
(description)(/description)
(Style)(IconStyle)(Icon)
(href)http://my.pdamill.com/~fable/igopoi.bmp(/href)
(y)810(/y)(w)30(/w)(h)30(/h)
(/Icon)(/IconStyle)(/Style)
(ZoomLevel)4096(/ZoomLevel)
(Point)
(coordinates)-4.245910,55.868111,0(/coordinates)
(/Point)

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or is anything wrong. The fact is that I cannot remember how to convert from KML to ASC so that I can put it in ASC folder and continue using the previously posted instructions I was given. 8O

Dave

ernest_mio · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 98

Correct - it will not work

Download your Audi file in whatever format is available - then convert to ascii and store in the POIconvert ASC folder. I use the Save As function of POIEdit

Run IGO_POI and this shoudl find your audi.asc file in the ASC folder.

Select the file

Select the ICON

Then press create IGO.KML

EXIT

Then run POICONVERT.exe

Encode IGO.KML to IGO.DB

You should see the audi file in the DOS box.

Then transfer to Mio using bluetooth/USB hack

DeeJay01 · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject:

ernest_mio · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 98

ernest_mio · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 98

You can do it using iGO POI explorer - its not as straight forward as you would like. However, I have managed to recover my "lost" POIs plus added the audi dealerships as well phew....

Download the application from: http://inetcom.hu/mick/igo/

You will need .Net services installed on your PC to make it work.

DeeJay01 · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

DeeJay01 · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:14 am Post subject: Result Found

I have found the result that I have been looking for at the following website:
www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70688

1: Download the Mio Transfer Hack to access the complete file system on your Mio: http://www.gpspassion.com/upload/Mio_Transfer_Hack.zip.
2: Download iGO_POI.zip from http://pdi.romania.googlepages.com/igo2006 to your PC.
3: Download poiconvert.exe from http://www.pdamill.com/~fable/poiconvert.exe to your PC.
4: Put poiconvert.exe in the same directory as the executable for iGO_POI.exe.
5: Fetch the file iGO.db from your Mio using the Mio Transfer Hack. It is located in the catalogue "My Flash Disk/MIOMAP/MIOMAP/".
6: Make a copy of iGO.db on your computer, just in case anyting goes wrong...
7: Put iGO.db in the same catalogue as poiconvert.exe and run poiconvert.exe. Press Decode iGO.db to iGO.kml.
8: Poiconvert creates the file iGO.kml (which Google Earth can read ), rename it to, for example, "original_igo.kml".
9: Download the POI:s you want to put in the Mio to the subdirectory ASC which is located in the directory were you installed iGO_POI. iGO_POI reads .asc files in which the lines should look something like this:

13.15810, 55.37239, "OKQ8:Etanol E85"

If you download a file that is in another format, try to convert it using for example POIEdit.
10: Run iGO_POI and follow the instructions, a new iGO.kml will be created.
11: Open iGO.kml wiht a text editor and replace all "&" with "and" (or whatever word you translate "and" to in your language ).
12: Copy the contents of your "original_igo.kml" to the new igo.kml using a text edtor. KML is an XML format, and if you are unsure how to handle that, I am sure there is plenty of info in other places on the net, and that I don't have to exlpain that here...
13: Run poiconvert again and this time you press Encode... and a new iGO.db will be created.
14: Replace the iGO.db on your Mio with the one you just created.
15: Finished!

Dee

Sallyann · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 23, 2006 Posts: 768

DeeJay01 · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:37 am Post subject:

Sallyann · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 23, 2006 Posts: 768

Sorry Dee/Dave. I was confused by your two sigs.

As you have discovered, all the user settings are saved in that one file so if you tamper with it you are going to have troubles. If you do look inside it there is some interesting stuff tucked away. One day...

Sal

Sallyann · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 23, 2006 Posts: 768

I've been playing with a tool called SQLite Manager 2, which has a very user-friendly interface, much easier than using a normal SQL command-line program.

If you copy the igo.db file to your PC, you can use SQLite Manager to examine and edit all of the data stored in the database including your own POI's.

I've been using the free version of the program which is limited to 20 data rows. If you want the unlimited version to import all your POI's there is a cost of $39.

http://www.sqlabs.net/sqlitemanager.php

Sal

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