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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject: Adding POI TomTom 540
Hi folks.. as a new 540 owner and new PGPSW subscriber, its probably me thats doing ssomething wrong, but after downloading the Cam Database, i decided to add fuel stations and ATMs, as i thought these would be most useful.
I D/L the appropriate files, ( both Fuel stations and ATMs ) and threw all the files into the POI folder, while my 540 was connected to the PC
I then decided to see if the new POI's worked, so disconnected and booted uo the 540, but when going to ' manage POI's ' there was nothing there ?
Perversely, POI's don't go in the POI folder, they go in the folder which contains the map (and it's NOT the folder called Map!). The folder shall be called something like UK & ROI.
A quick "Cut & Paste" should do the trick. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject:
Not sure where the "LBS" section is, so I've put it in the TomTom section, hope that's OK?
Its always something blindingly obvious or horribly subtle stopping it working for you... the only problem is finding it.
I had a wonderfully crafted reply half finished asking lots of questions, but 'AliOnHols' beat me to it and spotted the problem immediately (I'd missed it!) _________________ "Settling in nicely" ;-)
Well thats worked perfectly, though dont understand why fuel stations couldnt be placed in the POI folder. Never mind, job done
But now i have another problem. I'm out driving, and i want to find the nearest fuel station, the menu in the 540 only allows me to find only one name... EG i can find either Shell stations or Esso stations or Asda stations etc.
But i obviously want to find the nearest one, regardless of name, so can anyone help me set this up ?
I must add, that although all the fuel stations ( Shell, Asda , etc etc ) show up on the 540 now, ( placed them in UK and ROI folder as suggested ) trying to add them all as POI's was hopeless, as every time i touched them to add them in, i get a message saying no POI found..?
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:20 pm Post subject:
TheFatBassman wrote:
i can find either Shell stations or Esso stations or Asda stations etc.
But i obviously want to find the nearest one, regardless of name, so can anyone help me set this up ?
Right.... This is down to the way POI "categories" and "sub categories" work on the Pocket GPS World download page
If you go back to the PGPSW download page for the POIs, you'll see at the bottom:
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4. How should the files be created?
O Separate files per subcategory
O Combine subcategories into category file
By choosing one or the other you can either have separate categories for Shell, Esso, Asda, etc.
Or you can have ONE category called "Petrol Stations" (ie all of them)
You need to start all over again and this time select the second option.
One difference - you've found already... with separate categories, you only get to search one brand at a time.
The other difference is that with individual categories, you can have a pretty icon showing the Shell logo and the Esso logo etc, but if you have them all combined, then you only get one icon for all of them (usually a petrol pump symbol).
For some POIs you might want separate categories, for most you probably want them combined. The good thing is that you can have either.... _________________ "Settling in nicely" ;-)
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:27 pm Post subject:
TheFatBassman wrote:
I must add, that although all the fuel stations ( Shell, Asda , etc etc ) show up on the 540 now, ( placed them in UK and ROI folder as suggested ) trying to add them all as POI's was hopeless, as every time i touched them to add them in, i get a message saying no POI found..?
Not sure what you mean here... I'm probably being dense, can you say it again in a different way?
What exactly were you doing when you say " trying to add them all as POI's was hopeless, as every time i touched them to add them in"
What are you trying to add them in to?
TO see them on the map and to go to them, all you need to do is:
1. paste the downloaded files in to the right folder (you've done that)
2. On the TomTom menu, select "Show POI on map" and select the categories (that's if you want to see them on the map all the time, but you don't have to).
or
3. just go "Navigate to... POI" or "Travel via... POI", choose "POI on Route" or "POI near me" and then select the category you want. They should then be shown in order of distance from you and the coloured arrows give you an idea of how far off your current route each one is. _________________ "Settling in nicely" ;-)
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10642 Location: Suffolk, UK
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:56 am Post subject:
How many Subcategories are you trying to Combine.
Please note the Known Incompatibilities List, below the Download Section - especially No.3.
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3. Please Note: For OV2 files, the option to combine categories is limited to a maximum of 20. Attempts to combine more than 20 will fail. If you need to do so, please download in batches of 20 categories and merge using a utility such as POI Edit.
_________________ Richard
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Without ruffling too many feathers here (I hope), the POI download page can be quite temperamental at times. It has been known to reject searches depending upon choice of internet browser, if java is enabled, stored cookies, etc. If you find yourself stuck, try refreshing the page, shutting down the browser, a different browser, a different choice of POI download, cleaning your caches or anything else to shake it up! There appears to be no specific formula apart from perseverance. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20.
Please note the Known Incompatibilities List, below the Download Section - especially No.3.
Quote:
3. Please Note: For OV2 files, the option to combine categories is limited to a maximum of 20. Attempts to combine more than 20 will fail. If you need to do so, please download in batches of 20 categories and merge using a utility such as POI Edit.
Richard, i'm just trying to download all the fuel stations. The warning about 20 maximum refers to catergories, so it says, not sub catergories. As far as i know, the Fuel stations are just one catergory, though there's quite a few fuel stations in the sub catergory list, but the warning about OV2 files is to do with more than 20 catergories, not 20 sub catergories
They would be good to have because I drive for a living, but the advice was to to not download them as seperates ( which i did the first time ) so i'm trying to download them as combined ( all the fuel stations as one, rather than Esso, Shell, Sainsbury's etc )
My 2nd go at combining for download didnt work. The message i kept getting was ' SERVER WAS RESET ' please try later, check your net connections and so on.
Last edited by TheFatBassman on Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:06 pm; edited 4 times in total
Without ruffling too many feathers here (I hope), the POI download page can be quite temperamental at times. It has been known to reject searches depending upon choice of internet browser, if java is enabled, stored cookies, etc. If you find yourself stuck, try refreshing the page, shutting down the browser, a different browser, a different choice of POI download, cleaning your caches or anything else to shake it up! There appears to be no specific formula apart from perseverance.
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