postcodes

speggy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 06, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi
can anyone help i have bought navman icn 520 but can only put in 5 digit postcode how can you update this to take 7 digits i have done software update from navmans site but that hasnt helped any ideas would be appreciated
thanks

Unhban · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 33

Ask GEDD. He seems to have done it without an upgrade but doesn't want to tell how....

cleggie · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject:

thought the idea of the site was to help and offer assistance etc to others.
dont seem like GEDD wants to follow this route and share the info with us.

not a very contributary member eh?

Peet090 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 02, 2005 Posts: 10

Hi

I suspect he downloaded the 7 digit postcode data from this site :-

http://www.poisoft.co.uk/downloads.htm

It does state :-
TomTom Postcode Overlay Software is compatible with TomTom GO and Navman.

I haven't tried it but using Google came up with the above

b rgds

GEDD · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 29, 2006 Posts: 20

Hi Guys....i've left it to Gee-Pee to say as being new here there are forum rules which i am not to sure about.....not that it's hard to find. Smile

darrenwright · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject:

mmmm....I take it these postcode updates your on about are downloaded to your POI's.....i would rather wait for the offical Navman update than using my POI's for extended postcodes like the one's you can buy on ebay & the net, As i would rather use my POI's my important things.

Daz

darrenwright · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject:

mmmm....I take it these postcode updates your on about are downloaded to your POI's.....i would rather wait for the offical Navman update than using my POI's for extended postcodes like the one's you can buy on ebay & the net, As i would rather use my POI's for more important info.

Daz

GEDD · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 29, 2006 Posts: 20

Enri · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 27, 2006 Posts: 9

I'm a bit confused by this thread!

Because I downloaded the POI's from POISOFT but as yet I haven't managed to load them into my Navman successfully. The Navman or Connection or PC or something locks up every time I try to load in the CSV file.

GEDD mentions 4 POIs but the download I got from POISOFT includes eight.

When I queried this problem with POISOFT they told me that each POI file could not contain more than 64000 entries and if I split up these eight files into smaller ones I ended up with e.g. three separate files for the Anglia.csv so that the overall total would far greater than eight!

Incidentally even though I have tried to split the files and load a file with a limit of 64000 entries I still lock up the Navman and so have not yet suceeded at all!

Sad

GEDD · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 29, 2006 Posts: 20

Hi Enri....sounds like you need a little help,

First off there are ten uk regions...there are four files named the same per region...you connect your navman to pc in activesync click explore...open storage card, then open navman, then my poi...whichever region you pick to install ex, pcang1 make sure you put all four same named files in...then activesync will then convert them....diconnect then ready to use in you poi's.

Enri · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 27, 2006 Posts: 9

Cheers GEDD but still not the answer for me. The files I downloaded from POISOFT were spreadsheet *.csv files e.g. Anglia.csv, Northeast.csv etc.

Which I was then trying to load / convert into the navman into the relevant *.chk *.bm *.ini & *.map files needed in the Navman using the smart st software.

Question

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject:

Enri · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 27, 2006 Posts: 9

Hi Oldboy,
That's exactly what I'm trying to do when the system - navman or pc hangs!
Confused

GEDD · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 29, 2006 Posts: 20

Try uninstalling then reinstall navman apps.

hellebore · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Posts: 3

When I obtained the POISOFT postcodes I managed to load the Midlands set in one go but it took my computer all night ( set it going at 9:00 pm and when I woke next morning at breakfast it had managed to do the conversion from the csv file and was waiting for me to upload to my NavMan 520). Task Manager showed that the Navman desktop and the POI Editor were not responsing but my hard drive light kept flashing and it has worked.

Hope this helps!!

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