raylo

Tthanks, Matt. This looks easy enough. I saw the POI2GO OCN favorites output so I looked at the SD where I have the maps and color files and there was no favorites file. So I thought they were somehow being incorporated into the map file. I didn't think to check the ROM folder where the program is installed. D'ooohhhh!!

POI2Go is good stuff. :-)

Originally Posted by matthewp

raylo, Go check the POI2GO website as it now has direct output to OCN. Also, look at the following post in the forums: http://www.poi2go.com:8080/jforum3/posts/list/35.page

BrandenRussell

Any chance you can add a way to do this as Outlook Contacts for iGuidance users?
If not, guess I can figure out how to programatically create contacts and read it from your .txt you generate.
Great job!

I just got iGuidance and am very dissapointed with its ability to find anything.
It doesn't have POI's for any place I have been able to think of to try that I am interested in.
I have to do everything with contacts to get it to route me to anywhere.

Rishad

Good stuff.. but only US.. :(

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Originally Posted by BrandenRussell

Any chance you can add a way to do this as Outlook Contacts for iGuidance users? If not, guess I can figure out how to programatically create contacts and read it from your .txt you generate. Great job! I just got iGuidance and am very dissapointed with its ability to find anything. It doesn't have POI's for any place I have been able to think of to try that I am interested in. I have to do everything with contacts to get it to route me to anywhere.

Figured it would probably be best for me to write it for myself so I can customize the contact's information how I want it.
I learned how to write a C# program that creates contacts in Outlook mostly thanks to this page http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Tutoria...3.dcik#contact
I use VS 2005 and Office 2003, so the page is a bit out of date, but helpful.

However, if you're interested, this is what I am doing.
I am writing a program that takes a .txt file from your program.
The text file is named what I searched, so Fast food, restaurant, etc.
That becomes the Category of the contact for easy sorting in PocketInformant.

Again, great program! You have saved me time on replacing the horrible database of POIs that iGuidance provides (at least for Utah).

BrandenRussell

Okay, I wrote my program that takes your .txt and generates a contact for each item in the file and categorizes it based on the file's name.

Problem is your file doesn't contain a city and state for the address....
So, iGuidance can't find it (I tried giving it a general Salt Lake City, UT, but it wasn't happy with that).
Any chance you can get your app to put that info in the .txt?

mitiper

Hi, BrandenRussell,

Well, I can add that format later. Are there other ways to add poi into Iguidance?
Now I pretty much rely on users to tell me where to find related format or utility for conversion...

Now I am kind of having my hand full for various bugs and network / server problems (did not anticipate so much usage but I am happy ).


I will keep u updated.

BrandenRussell

As far as I know, you can't add POIs to iGuidance. That is why I was hoping to write a program that took your .txt and made Contacts in Outlook to make up for it.

mitiper

I see. I will add a new "complete txt" format into new version then.

Originally Posted by BrandenRussell

As far as I know, you can't add POIs to iGuidance. That is why I was hoping to write a program that took your .txt and made Contacts in Outlook to make up for it.

bigdave240

The poi's for iguidance are in a file called poi.bin. Not sure if there is a way to create a replacement file.

mitiper

It is a binary file then....

Too sad Iguidance may be the only non-native supported POI format by poi2go.com in the future (we may have mapopolis native support soon :) ).


To solve your early request, I am planning to add several checkbox to let users select what they want to include in the "long label" result in the new version...


But it should be sometime around next weekend.

goodguy20k

I want to see Mapopolis! I'm waiting!

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mitiper

tomtom format is updated to show "call number".

Originally Posted by goodguy20k

I want to see Mapopolis! I'm waiting!

brobinson

Originally Posted by goodguy20k

I want to see Mapopolis! I'm waiting!

You can do it already by downloading the GPX format and then using GPXtoMaplet program. Takes about an extra two seconds.

goodguy20k

Wow, everyone is quoating me.

Yes, I know I can convert, but I want on the go POIs. I can't count the number of times I've been traveling and needed to find the nearest McDonalds (Yes, NEEDED. You try a road trip with 7 siblings!:hide: ) but the POIs are CERTAINLY LACKING.

Now if I could dial-up some internet, get POIs for the local area, load them into the mapping software, I'd be one happy dude!:love:

I can wait for it though. I'm not going on any major trips (that I know of) for a while.

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mitiper

bump it to the first page for the weekend traffic :)