Where should I save my TomTom POI file from GSAK for IPaq?

Partic · Post by **Partic** » 29 September 07 8:00 pm

Just installed TomTom today, as a potential replacement for Destinator (that alert on nearby POI feature's likely to reinflame my caching rate).

I want my comprehensive daily GSAK macro to export the TomTom POI files automatically, but can't figure out the best place to save the file for my IPAQ so that I don't need to manually move the file to the CF card that has the maps on it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

roundcircle · Post by **roundcircle** » 29 September 07 9:06 pm

It needs to be in the same directory as your maps. I don't think it can be anywhere else. If that's a storage card, then manual intervention is needed.

Please tell me if there is some other magic that will enable this to be automatic.

I'm not that interested in buying software that will allow me to replicate to the storage card, which I know is available. Free would be Okay. WM6 may do this also, but I'm not ready to go there either.

Partic · Post by **Partic** » 29 September 07 9:17 pm

Thanks Malcolm. It was what I thought.

I can see My MobileMy Pocket PCStorage CardAustralia from windows explorer, but not as a location I can save to from GSAK.

So, might try saving it to a local folder, then running CopyTo to synchronize the folder to the IPAQ Storage Card directly.

roundcircle · Post by **roundcircle** » 29 September 07 9:23 pm

I'll be interested in how you go.

By the way, I think that Destinator is a much better navigation app, but the POI feature works much better in TomTom. I have given up on Destinator solely because of the way the POI feature works. It does mean that I spend a lot more time looking at the screen than I did with Destinator.

Partic · Post by **Partic** » 29 September 07 11:33 pm

OK... Here we go... Answered my own question!

There's an application called MightySync (US$5.95) which partners with ActiveSync and lets you set up sync folders between anywhere on your hard drive, and anywhere on your Pocket PC, including anywhere on Storage Cards.

I've then setup GSAK to export TomTom POI files to a folder called "Australia" in my Geocaching files folder (For other countries, set up the appropriate folder to match the POI location for the maps you're using).

MightySync is then set to sync the "Australia" folder on the hard drive with the "Australia" folder containing maps and POI files on the Storage Card (so it syncs your maps too btw).

From there, it's just a case of syncing your PDA as you normally would!

Make sense? If not, PM me.

BTW Have already noticed a few differences with TomTom that I'll need to get used to compared to Destinator, but when cache hunting, I think the POI Alert is going to be the key.

Partic · Post by **Partic** » 04 October 07 12:57 am

I think I have it all working now... at least once I got past the limitation my version of TomTom has for additional POI files. A dozen works nicely. 25 didn't.

roundcircle · Post by **roundcircle** » 04 October 07 6:47 am

25 didn't work? I have 2000+

ian-and-penny · Post by **ian-and-penny** » 04 October 07 9:19 am

roundcircle wrote:25 didn't work? I have 2000+

POI Files or POI in a file?

Skippy · Post by **Skippy** » 04 October 07 9:35 am

I have all mine in the Australia folder

roundcircle · Post by **roundcircle** » 04 October 07 10:38 am

Ian & Penny wrote:

POI Files or POI in a file?
<p>roundcircle wrote:
25 didn't work? I have 2000+

<p>
Oh. No I have 2000 POI's in 4 files.

Partic · Post by **Partic** » 04 October 07 11:46 am

12 POI files, not 12 POI's.

I'd set my POI Export Macro up to initially filter Trads and Multis into state by state groups, then each other cache type to their own POI file.

I've now changed it to a POI file for each cache type, and that's working fine so far with just the dozen instead of 25 files (had some other ones I'd downloaded too). Each type then has a different POI icon.

Found the problem on a few TomTom forums. As it seems to be a functional limit, I'll have to put all my other POI's into one file if I want to do something else. (Unless anyone's aware of an alternative problem that is causing it).

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Where should I save my TomTom POI file from GSAK for IPaq?

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