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dusty4324
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:27 pm    Post subject: Problems using the POI database!!! Reply with quote

Hi all,
I have recently purchased a Garmin Nuvi 200w. I am having no problems using the unit, however I do have problems trying to get information from the "200,000 FREE POIs" page.

What I am after is a CSV file of several of the categories listed. When I choose the CSV option from the drop down, select the categories I am after and then save the file I do not get what I expect!

The file that is downloaded is definitely not a CSV and so I cannot use the POI Loader to upload the data. This is after I have opened the zip file and extracted the contents.

I am using IE7 and have seen from various other posts that there seem to be issues using this?

Can anyone help out here?!

Thanks in advance,
Dusty
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome to the forum, try downloading the POI files again, but this time make sure you tick the "Show Link" box next to the download button, and keep the number of categories down to around 20, see if this works for you, I run I.E. 7 and this works fine for me - Mike
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers, thanks for the quick reply. All OK and working fine.

Much appreciated!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems the instructions are still not clear enough?
(I know it's in "Note 1" just below the "download" box, but we still get several of these questions a week...)

How about just prefacing those notes with "IF THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU..." Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_P2002 wrote:
Seems the instructions are still not clear enough?
(I know it's in "Note 1" just below the "download" box, but we still get several of these questions a week...)

How about just prefacing those notes with "IF THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU..." Smile
The CSV Version does not suffer the limitation of 22 sub-categories. You can download whole categories in one go, and you don't need to "Show Link".

All those problems are associated with the conversion to OV2 Files.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But it seemed to help for the guy above... Stop it!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_P2002 wrote:
But it seemed to help for the guy above... Stop it!
Not having been there when he was doing it, I can't say what was actually done.

However the problem of sub-categories applies to OV2 downloads.

Try the CSV download with combining, using say Fuel and Food & Drink categories, both of which have more than 22 sub POIs. Even without Show Link. Wink
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