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philo
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for people who arnt good with their satnav!
May 22, 2008, 12:35:13 am
apart from telling people to google things,
can we have small explinations on how to do things, basic things.
when i downloaded the POI's and put them on my satnav i was unsure which folder each part of the file went into.
i know there is a brief explanation in the POI FAQ but its still a little vague for useless people like me
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#1 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
May 22, 2008, 08:06:00 am
Well, the problem is that different SatNavs from different manufacturers differ in where they store and organise things. You've not told us what make/model you have, so its a little tricky to give advice on where you stick the files. We'd need someone with one of every possible one on the market to check out where things go to write a comprehensive HowTo.
Some advice though....
Connect your SatNav to the computer, then have a browse round the directories that exist and find where the existing POI's and files (which will carry the same file extensions as Jim's bouldering POI's) are currently located. Stick the bouldering POI's in there.
Note also that its
highly
unlikely to actually damage the SatNav by placing them in the wrong place, all you'll find is that you can't use the POI's if you put them in the wrong place. Don't be afraid to play around and experiment.
If in doubt
for the SatNav you have, it will (well it should) tell you where to place them. If it doesn't see if you can find a forum for the SatNav you have and ask (whilst specifying the make and model of your SatNav, naturally) where they should be placed (or provide the same information here).
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#2 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
May 25, 2008, 12:13:29 am
Having breifly re-read the faq's, they are as simple as they can be TBH. They could probably do with updating (ie map versions).
If you want specific help then I am more than happy to give it to you (or anyone else) but you will have to post up with what type of sat nav system you are using
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#3 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
July 25, 2008, 11:37:57 am
Jim i did end up getting the new nokia N95. Is it possible to stick tomtom on it and ditch the shit it has pre installed, i need to know before i mess around with it
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#4 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
July 25, 2008, 04:17:29 pm
Neil, i've tried both Garmin Mobile XT and Tomtom Navigator 6 on my N95. I wouldn't bother with Nokia maps at all.
Tomtom needs some workarounds in order to get it to use the N95s internal gps, whereas Garmin works out of the box. Apparantly the next version of Tomtom should fix this problem.
I think i'm leaning towards Tomtom over Garmin as the interface is nicer, and route calculation is faster, though Garmin does some advantages of it's own.
If you want to evaluate before you buy, or just be a dirty feef, both are available for free online.
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#5 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
July 25, 2008, 04:23:48 pm
cheers budda, one problem i may have is that i am now on a french contract, I have set the phone up in english but cant seem to get the satnav to work in english, can you see any problems here if i stick a new system on it
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#6 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
July 25, 2008, 04:44:11 pm
No, it shouldn't matter - the gps reciever works independently to your mobile service......well it can do anyway.... On my N95, the gps was set to "assisted gps" as standard. This means that the gps reciever also uses the mobile network to establish your initial postion, thus incurring data charges. If you set the "assisted" off then the gps receiver just works on it's own. It takes longer to get the intial signal (usually about 5 minutes) but it's completely free.
So if you install a new satnav program and turn off a-gps then the whole thing works outside of your network/contract.
I wouldn't even fire up the "nokia maps" app - when i did this I got a whole load of data charges as it tried to download the maps to the phone!
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#7 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
July 26, 2008, 02:03:46 pm
cheers for the info, Lets see if i can do it without messing it up
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#8 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
August 11, 2008, 02:22:20 pm
Just trying out sygic or McGuider as its now known on the wifes N82. Its supposed to be much better than garmin and also works with the internal gps.
Looks pretty good
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#9 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
August 11, 2008, 05:34:53 pm
There's a version of tomtom that has been cracked to work with the nokia internal gps. It's what i'm using now.
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#10 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
August 11, 2008, 06:35:05 pm
Yeah but you have to set it up everytime you use it and it kept crashing the phone so I've ditched it
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#11 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
August 12, 2008, 01:51:48 pm
Aye, that is a slight pain, but I think it's better than the garmin. Not crashed for me yet. I think everyone is eagerly awaiting tomtom v7 which apparantly is going to work with internal gps.
What's your verdict on the Sygic compared to Tomtom?
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#12 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
August 12, 2008, 09:55:18 pm
Not used it yet properly, looks ok tho.
I don't recon tomtom v7 will ever be released for pda's, smartphones etc... too much piracy, opinion is they will just stick to hardware based products only
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#13 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
November 04, 2009, 11:58:13 am
Just put these on my Garmin Nuvi. All you need to do is convert the files (with the software that Jim mentioned) and the get the Garmin Poi software here:
http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/
Plug in with a USB cable and bobs your uncle
Thanks Jim
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#14 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
February 15, 2012, 04:45:51 pm
Just been playing with my new Garmin
Tried the software Jim recommended much earlier on another thread but no joy - cue
Seems to now be a POI manager not a convertor
Happily a quick
lead me to this
page
I just converted and saved each file then the poi uploader Dylan was talking about in the previous post did the rest
On a side note as a new Garmin user it did take me a while to find the damned things on the device as they're not in POI but in EXTRAS
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#15 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
February 15, 2012, 04:52:25 pm
Clearly they're Extra POIs
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#16 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
February 15, 2012, 05:41:28 pm
Quote from: slack---line on February 15, 2012, 04:52:25 pm
Clearly they're Extra POIs
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#17 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
March 19, 2012, 01:24:23 pm
has anyone had any joy converting the bouldering POI's (or any TomTom format .ov2 POI's) into the Sygic GPS format (.rupi) ?
I've bought Sygic for my Android and wanted to stick the Font POI's on there before Easter. I ran the font ov2 file through this convertor:
http://tomtom.gps-data-team.com/poi/ov2-to-csv.php
which gave me a comma seperated file.
I then run this through the Sygic convertor:
http://www.sygic.com/en/poi
but don't get a .rupi file out..
Anyone been down this route?
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#18 Re: for people who arnt good with their satnav!
March 19, 2012, 06:04:47 pm
Haven't used rupi but there's quite a bit of info here
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/34103
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