newbie OV2 trouble and a solution
|
13 years
|
I use the old PDA/smart phone software Navigator 6. I have used custom POI files before, but I am new to POI Factory files.
I downloaded a couple and tried them out. In TomTom, I could see the files in the list and if I used the Find feature the items showed up, but I had trouble seeing them in the map. They didn't show up at all, not a red box, not an icon -- nothing.
After fiddling around for a while, I found a solution. I opened a file in the POI Editor website, then downloaded the file as an OV2 file. Then I took that file and put it in the map folder and the files worked properly.
This fellow:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30682
seems to be having the same problem. I am wondering if POI Factory is chaning these files or the people that are uploading the ov2 files are using a bad piece of software to convert to ov2?
Bad OV2 format
I believe that the .ov2 files on this site (at least some of them) have a bad format.
On my TomTom One 130 I discovered that I have to load the file with Extra_POI_Editor, then save.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/21156
Doing a binary compare of the two files, it looks like the original .ov2 files from this site have an additional record at the start, that EPE removes, I have not dug further into the file format to see what the issue might be.
I now also have a TomTom XXL 540TM. I don't know if it has the same problem, as I have been processing everything through EPE.
POIs
I use the old PDA/smart phone software Navigator 6. I have used custom POI files before, but I am new to POI Factory files.
I downloaded a couple and tried them out. In TomTom, I could see the files in the list and if I used the Find feature the items showed up, but I had trouble seeing them in the map. They didn't show up at all, not a red box, not an icon -- nothing.
After fiddling around for a while, I found a solution. I opened a file in the POI Editor website, then downloaded the file as an OV2 file. Then I took that file and put it in the map folder and the files worked properly.
This fellow:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30682
seems to be having the same problem. I am wondering if POI Factory is chaning these files or the people that are uploading the ov2 files are using a bad piece of software to convert to ov2?
Can you give me an example or 2 of a poi, that you had problems with?
Bad OV2 format
Sorry for hijacking vey's post, but we both feel our issues may be related.
Let's take a look at the file Arbys_USA_CAN.ov2. As downloaded from this site, I can search for these POI's, but they will not show up on the map. After I load and save with EPE, they will show up on the map.
A binary compare of the two files reveals that the original file from this site has the following hex data at the beginning of the file, which EPE removes.
01 FC D0 01 00 3D E8 0E FF 84 0D 1E 00 96 09 9F
FF 5B F5 5D 00
Other than these deleted bytes at the beginning of the original file, the two files are the same.
DQ-US_Locations.ov2 has the same problem. but the deleted header is
01 29 D6 02 00 10 F4 0E FF A8 0B 1E 00 95 37 97
FF 64 FE 5D 00
Burger_King_USA_CAN.ov2 works fine as is.
Chuck E Cheeses.ov2 works fine (other than need ing to change the spaces to underscores)
Missing Icons on maps- TomTom Navigator 5
Hi!
I don't know why it works, but it does.
I downloaded the .OV2 files from POI-Factory on my computer, the went to the POI editor website and passed that same files "through the wringer"- Used the POI editor converter and converted from .OV2 to .KML and then the new file back from KML to .OV2. Then all you have to do is rename the new .OV2 file properly, add a .bmp image with the exact same name- put the new "wringed" .ov2 file and its matching .bmp icon pic on the proper map and voila'. Now the TomTom navigator 5 can show the icons on the maps when you are zooming in and out of a given area.
I still have to try it with my navigator 6, but it shouldn't be any different.
Many Thanks!!!
Angel
Orlando Fl
Navigator5 on HTC8525 and XV6700 and Navigator 6 on IPAQ 4155