Extract POI file to external database

[thevectra]

Hi, I have been using my TomTom Go 300 for 3 years and in field sales I have found the use of setting up my own POI's invaulable. I have set up all clients, prospects and dealers with seperate icons, complete with company, contact and telephone. I now would like to transfer all this information to a database.
Could anyone advise me on how to do it or a program that could do it for me?
Thanks, Rick.

[aj2052]

Use poiedit, load them up as ov2 files, change, add, append with other files or whatever and then save in most formats for use in spreadsheet, word processor or whatever and its free, you can even see the locations on the side map which also gives choices of maps.
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Moto G5s Plus, Sygic 17.4.8

[aj2052]

Not sure about the 300, but I use a PDA with tomtom and microsoft Outlook with activsync and a cradle, everytime i drop it in the cradle it seamlessly automatically updates all my contacts between the pda and outlook plus I can navigate to the contacts on the pda, My contacts contain far more information incl mobile, fax numbers and notes etc, this would seem a far better way for numerous contacts.
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Moto G5s Plus, Sygic 17.4.8

[Andy_P]

Following up from aj2052's first post...

POI Edit is downloadable from here:
http://www.poiedit.com/

Use OPEN in the File menu to load your POI file (which you will find in the named map folder of your TomTom's storage).

You can use File/APPEND if you want to merge several files together.

Then use File/SAVE AS to save it in a format which can be opened by your word processor/Spreadsheet/Database program... probably Generic ascii (.asc (which is identical to .txt)) or one of the comma-separated variable formats (.csv)

[aj2052]

Thats what I meant to say Andy, but you put it so much better.
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Moto G5s Plus, Sygic 17.4.8

[Andy_P]

No worries...
We all tend to lapse into shorthand sometimes, I'm as guilty as anyone of that....

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