For those who use the MapFactor navigation app for your android phone or tablet. You can import the custom poi files from POI Factory using the digger conversion tool at download.mapfactor.com/digger_12.zip . The files are changed from the csv format to a mca file. I copied the instructions from the MapFactor forum. .
Pay very close attention to number 6 to install your selected icon to show on the map. You will need to change your bmp file to a png before starting the process.
1 Open diggerQt.exe
2 Enter a new file name in the box at the top of the first page.
3 Click on next
4 I used a csv file which I knew was in UTF-8 encoding. Drop down the select data type box and select Comma separated values in UTF-8 encoding and a new screen will open . Go to the location of the csv file you want to use and select it. Click on next
5 The coordinate screen will open. Select the latitude and longitude format in your csv file. Click on the longitude drop down box and you should see the info on your csv file and click on the longitude value. Repeat this for the latitude value. Click on next.
6. The Object appearance assignment screen will open. This screen caused most of my problems.
It is not obvious but you need to double click in the style box which will open a new screen and then double click on select image and then click on the little icon that appears to the right of the select image box.
This will let you go to wherever you have stored the icon you want to use for your poi's. The file will need to be a .png or icon file. I used a png and you may have to try different sizes of files to get one that you can see at whatever scale you usually use.
You can then ok back to the main screen and now you will be able to click on next.
7 If you want information to show at the poi location you can set it up here. Then click next.
8 You will then see a summery screen of what you have set up. Click next.
9 The Run import screen opens. Click on save configuration and run import. The screen will run down until import finished and you need to click close to save everything to a .mca file
10 Digger will then save the .mca file to the diggerQt.exe file folder in a folder called Import.
To see the poi's on your map you need to have the .mca file in the main pc navigator folder.
Depending on your configuration this may happen automatically but in my case it did not so I had to copy and paste it from the import folder in the digger file to the PC_Navigator folder.
You need to open PC Navigator and you should see the new poi icons.
If they are not the way you want them to be you can go back and open diggerQt where you can edit the details in the Object Appearance assignment screen.
It took me a bit of time changing a detail, saving the changes, viewing them on my maps before I got them looking the way I wanted .
For those who use the MapFactor navigation app for your android phone or tablet. You can import the custom poi files from POI Factory using the digger conversion tool at download.mapfactor.com/digger_12.zip . The files are changed from the csv format to a mca file. I copied the instructions from the MapFactor forum. .
Pay very close attention to number 6 to install your selected icon to show on the map. You will need to change your bmp file to a png before starting the process.
1 Open diggerQt.exe
2 Enter a new file name in the box at the top of the first page.
3 Click on next
4 I used a csv file which I knew was in UTF-8 encoding. Drop down the select data type box and select Comma separated values in UTF-8 encoding and a new screen will open . Go to the location of the csv file you want to use and select it. Click on next
5 The coordinate screen will open. Select the latitude and longitude format in your csv file. Click on the longitude drop down box and you should see the info on your csv file and click on the longitude value. Repeat this for the latitude value. Click on next.
6. The Object appearance assignment screen will open. This screen caused most of my problems.
It is not obvious but you need to double click in the style box which will open a new screen and then double click on select image and then click on the little icon that appears to the right of the select image box.
This will let you go to wherever you have stored the icon you want to use for your poi's. The file will need to be a .png or icon file. I used a png and you may have to try different sizes of files to get one that you can see at whatever scale you usually use.
You can then ok back to the main screen and now you will be able to click on next.
7 If you want information to show at the poi location you can set it up here. Then click next.
8 You will then see a summery screen of what you have set up. Click next.
9 The Run import screen opens. Click on save configuration and run import. The screen will run down until import finished and you need to click close to save everything to a .mca file
10 Digger will then save the .mca file to the diggerQt.exe file folder in a folder called Import.
To see the poi's on your map you need to have the .mca file in the main pc navigator folder.
Depending on your configuration this may happen automatically but in my case it did not so I had to copy and paste it from the import folder in the digger file to the PC_Navigator folder.
You need to open PC Navigator and you should see the new poi icons.
If they are not the way you want them to be you can go back and open diggerQt where you can edit the details in the Object Appearance assignment screen.
It took me a bit of time changing a detail, saving the changes, viewing them on my maps before I got them looking the way I wanted .
Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.