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Alex
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:26 pm    Post subject: Poiplace and POIs on TomTom GO Reply with quote
Have been playing with GPS for about 5 years now and think its great. Lent
my IPAQ with TomTom 3 & GPS to partner the other day as she was travelling
long distance.

She absolutely loves it big time, and am thinking of getting her a TomTom GO
300 or similar as the PC card sleeve, convertor and CF GPS are too much for
her to deal with if anything goes wrong..

May question is can you load POIplace onto the TTGO as well, and or does
TomTom 5 offer warning type capabilities for Points of Interest.

Also can you load your own Points of Interest onto the plug-in card?

Any info would be great!

Cheers

Alex
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Alex
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Poiplace and POIs on TomTom GO Reply with quote
Set-square,

Thanks thats exactly what I meant by POIplace - its an app I have on my PDA
that warns you when you approach POIs - such as Cameras ;o)

Thanks for the info in the ONE, I was wondering what the difference was.
I'll also read the posts.

Thanks for you help!

Alex

"Set Square" <diy@privacy.net> wrote in message
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Alex <alex.cruse@btinternet.com> wrote:

Have been playing with GPS for about 5 years now and think its great.
Lent my IPAQ with TomTom 3 & GPS to partner the other day as she was
travelling long distance.

She absolutely loves it big time, and am thinking of getting her a
TomTom GO 300 or similar as the PC card sleeve, convertor and CF GPS
are too much for her to deal with if anything goes wrong..

May question is can you load POIplace onto the TTGO as well, and or
does TomTom 5 offer warning type capabilities for Points of Interest.

Also can you load your own Points of Interest onto the plug-in card?

Any info would be great!

Cheers

Alex

Have a read of some of the items in the PocketGPSWorld TomTom GO forum at
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=93
for a full picture.

Not exactly sure what you mean about loading POIplace into TTG - but you
can
certainly load nearly 40 categories of POI (out of the thousands available
from various sources) onto TTG's SD memory card. Some of the most popular
ones are speed camera locations. You can tell TTG to give an audible
warning
when you are approaching a POI of a specified category - using either the
built-in bells, gongs and animal noises - or using some of the freely
downloadable spoken warnings.

Have you considered the new TomTom ONE as an alternative to the 300? It is
slightly less bulky and has the latest super-sensitive GPS chipset - but
lacks one or two features of the 300 which you may well not miss. Worth
looking at, anyway.
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Cheers,
Set Square
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Set Square
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:08 am    Post subject: Re: Poiplace and POIs on TomTom GO Reply with quote
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Alex <alex.cruse@btinternet.com> wrote:

Quote:
Have been playing with GPS for about 5 years now and think its great.
Lent my IPAQ with TomTom 3 & GPS to partner the other day as she was
travelling long distance.

She absolutely loves it big time, and am thinking of getting her a
TomTom GO 300 or similar as the PC card sleeve, convertor and CF GPS
are too much for her to deal with if anything goes wrong..

May question is can you load POIplace onto the TTGO as well, and or
does TomTom 5 offer warning type capabilities for Points of Interest.

Also can you load your own Points of Interest onto the plug-in card?

Any info would be great!

Cheers

Alex

Have a read of some of the items in the PocketGPSWorld TomTom GO forum at
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=93
for a full picture.

Not exactly sure what you mean about loading POIplace into TTG - but you can
certainly load nearly 40 categories of POI (out of the thousands available
from various sources) onto TTG's SD memory card. Some of the most popular
ones are speed camera locations. You can tell TTG to give an audible warning
when you are approaching a POI of a specified category - using either the
built-in bells, gongs and animal noises - or using some of the freely
downloadable spoken warnings.

Have you considered the new TomTom ONE as an alternative to the 300? It is
slightly less bulky and has the latest super-sensitive GPS chipset - but
lacks one or two features of the 300 which you may well not miss. Worth
looking at, anyway.
--
Cheers,
Set Square
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Please reply to newsgroup. Reply address is invalid.
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Darren Griffin - PocketGP
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Poiplace and POIs on TomTom GO Reply with quote
Alex wrote:
Quote:
Set-square,

Thanks thats exactly what I meant by POIplace - its an app I have on
my PDA that warns you when you approach POIs - such as Cameras ;o)

Thanks for the info in the ONE, I was wondering what the difference
was. I'll also read the posts.

Thanks for you help!

POIPlace is a POI website, it uses CheckPOInt on the PDA to update POIs.


--
Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums
Creators of the free UK Safety Camera POI
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Robert Peffers
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Poiplace and POIs on TomTom GO Reply with quote
"Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <darren@pocketgpsworld.com> wrote in
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Quote:
Alex wrote:
Set-square,

Thanks thats exactly what I meant by POIplace - its an app I have on
my PDA that warns you when you approach POIs - such as Cameras ;o)

Thanks for the info in the ONE, I was wondering what the difference
was. I'll also read the posts.

Thanks for you help!

POIPlace is a POI website, it uses CheckPOInt on the PDA to update POIs.


--
Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums
Creators of the free UK Safety Camera POI

Yes you can add POIs to your TomTom Go 300/500/700.

This can be done in several ways. You can use a USB connector to your
computer and download whole POI files to add to the map directory/folder
contained in the TomTom. You can also add/subtract POIs manually using the
TomTom's built in pages.

There are also several software that you can use with your computer to make
up your own, or alter other folks, POI categories. I've just made a new POI
list of filling stations on my computer and added this to my TomTom. It was
made up from several list by other folks and from the local ones.
Incidentally you can get these into the TomTom by connecting the unit to the
computer with a USB connector and reading the TomTom card as an extra disk
on the computer or by extracting the memory card from the unit to use in a
fitted or an external card reader with the computer.
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Robert, (Auld Bob), Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
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helena
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:08 am    Post subject: Re: Poiplace and POIs on TomTom GO Reply with quote
I noticed a big mention of PocketGPSWorld's POIs on the TomTom blog
earlier this week - it has a good description of how to add POIs to the
GO 300 (or 700 or 500 for that matter).
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