binatone g500 poi

emptysporran · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 21, 2011 Posts: 1

Hi

Can anyone tell me how I go about installing poi`s on a binatone g500. I have recently purchased it and want to use my old TT poi file as I have about 950 locations that I want to have on the g500. I have no idea where they are or what format they should be.

Any help would be appreciated.

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emptysporran

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:33 am Post subject:

Do you know if the Binatone is running iGo navigation software?

I ask that because the PGPSW camera database is just a collection of POI files and the compatibility table for it here says that it can be used on Binatone models "so long as they are running iGo software and not one of the others used by Binatone. (If you need help to determine this then check or ask in our iGO forum)".

If it *is* running iGo, it looks like you need to convert the files to .txt format (a utility like POIEdit should be able to do that for you) and then try using the speedcam installation instructions here.

You probably wont want to use the Binatone's \Flash Disk\igo\poi\speedcam folder, so maybe they go in \Flash Disk\igo\poi or another sub-folder of it.

Without seeing the device and it's file structure, I'm afraid I can't be more specific, but it looks like you should be able to sort it out with a few experiments if no-one with more detailed knowledge comes along.

Good luck, and please tell us how you get on (or if you get stuck!)

Andy
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M8TJT · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:42 am Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:41 pm Post subject:

it looks like there are 2 versions of the g500:

1)

and 2:

neither, to me at least, look like they run iGO. perhaps if you can let us know which it looks like then we may be able to work out what software it's running and what your options are?

MaFt

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:46 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:39 am Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:16 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:02 pm Post subject:

Shall we draw a line under all this as we've probably confused the hell out of 'emptysporran'!

Starting again...
emptysporran, is there any mention in the user manual of "third-party POIs" or "user POIs"? Have you found anywhere in the menus to add your own POI categories?

There are quite a few units (especially the car manufacturers built-in units) where you CANNOT add your own POIs at all, but hopefully this isn't one of them.
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MaFt · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:33 pm Post subject:

...and also, in the help/about/settings options on the satnav is there any mention of copyrights other than binatones? maybe Nav N Go / NNG / Turbo Dog?

MaFt

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