GPS - Removing POI categories

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Removing POI categories

sisprr@googlemail.com

2007-02-05, 4:33 am

Is there any way to *remove* POI categories that come part of Tom
Tom's "One"? I want to replace some of the standard categories (e.g.
shops, hotels and law courts) with my own custom categories, since the
standard ones are pretty useless.

Roger Mills

2007-02-05, 4:33 am

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
sisprr@googlemail.com <sisprr@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to *remove* POI categories that come part of Tom
> Tom's "One"? I want to replace some of the standard categories (e.g.
> shops, hotels and law courts) with my own custom categories, since the
> standard ones are pretty useless.

Yes, but only if you remove them *all* - 'cos they're all in one file (I
foregt *which* file - but somebody will know). But that won't get you any
additional custom categories. Mind you, with v6 firmware you can have 100
custom categories - which is probably enough. So it's probably best just to
ignore the built-in categories, and use yours instead. Perhaps you could
identify yours easily by (say) starting the category names with a $.
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Roger
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sisprr@googlemail.com

2007-02-05, 3:33 pm

A "single" file? I feared as much.

Is there a way to edit the single file with POI Edit or a similar
program, maybe taking out the unwanted POIs and leaving the useful
ones?

I suspect that the words "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it" are
marching (with well-deserved wisdom) in the direction of this thread,
but there are a great many inaccurate or simply pointless POIs shipped
with TomTom's One. It's not so much SD space but rather screen estate
in menus that I'd like to clear up.

Your suggestion of using a symbol e.g. $ to distinguish built-in from
custom categories is a good one and I will try it if all else fails.

Roger Mills wrote:
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> sisprr@googlemail.com <sisprr@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Yes, but only if you remove them *all* - 'cos they're all in one file (I
> foregt *which* file - but somebody will know). But that won't get you any
> additional custom categories. Mind you, with v6 firmware you can have 100
> custom categories - which is probably enough. So it's probably best just to
> ignore the built-in categories, and use yours instead. Perhaps you could
> identify yours easily by (say) starting the category names with a $.
> --
> Cheers,
> Roger
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> monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks.
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Roger Mills

2007-02-06, 10:33 am

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
sisprr@googlemail.com <sisprr@googlemail.com> wrote:

> A "single" file? I feared as much.
>
> Is there a way to edit the single file with POI Edit or a similar
> program, maybe taking out the unwanted POIs and leaving the useful
> ones?
>
Well, I suppose that it's got to be *possible* because someone (TomTom)
created the file in the first place - and, after all, it only contains
data.

Trouble is that it's not the usual POI (.ov2) format - and I haven't come
across any tools for unscrambling and editing it. A nice little project for
somebody perhaps?
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Roger
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Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com

2007-02-06, 3:33 pm

Roger Mills wrote:

> Well, I suppose that it's got to be *possible* because someone
> (TomTom) created the file in the first place - and, after all, it
> only contains data.
>
> Trouble is that it's not the usual POI (.ov2) format - and I haven't
> come across any tools for unscrambling and editing it. A nice little
> project for somebody perhaps?

It's already been done, POI.dat is the file name. I can't locate the
discussion at the moment but it has been done!

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Robert Peffers.

2007-02-06, 3:33 pm

"Roger Mills" <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:52riitF1poei6U1
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> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> sisprr@googlemail.com <sisprr@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, I suppose that it's got to be *possible* because someone (TomTom)
> created the file in the first place - and, after all, it only contains
> data.
>
> Trouble is that it's not the usual POI (.ov2) format - and I haven't come
> across any tools for unscrambling and editing it. A nice little project
> for somebody perhaps?
> --
> Cheers,
> Roger
> ______
> Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly
> monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks.
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>Have a look at -
http://www.tomtomsatnav.info/poidat.html

Roger Mills

2007-02-06, 10:33 pm

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Robert Peffers. < peffers50@btinternet
.com> wrote:

> "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:52riitF1poei6U1
@mid.individual.net...
>

> Have a look at -
> http://www.tomtomsatnav.info/poidat.html

Interesting - thanks!

Any idea where the list of category numbers can be found?
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Cheers,
Roger
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