Guest Fizz_daz Posted September 29, 2008 Report Posted September 29, 2008 I have subscription to PocketGPS speed cameras and I used to download them for TT5 on my old phone. Now with IGO8 how do I get the speed cameras (which are downloaded as TXT files for IGO on the list) to sound out warnings. They seem to show on the map, and the ones already on the speed camera database seem to sound, but the ones on the text files do not. I have basically jsut copied the txt and the BMP files into the igo8\content\speedcam folder.. any help would be appreciated.
Guest Fizz_daz Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 does no one use or update the speed cameras on their installation of IGO8 then???
Guest bobobird Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 does no one use or update the speed cameras on their installation of IGO8 then??? have u tried adjusting Setting/Warnings options ?
Guest Fizz_daz Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 yes... it warns for some and not others. I was wantering whether it is only picking up the spud file and not the text files? it shows the camera icons ok or perhaps just picking up the first txt file??
Guest Neil5459 Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 I don't use any other Speed Cams apart from the one I get on subscription for iGO6 (and which is still not fully ported to iGO8) but as far as I remember you need to use a special tool to incorporate 3rd party speed cam files into a format iGO can understand. You may find it worth trying pocketgpsworld.com forums for advice?
Guest bobobird Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 yes... it warns for some and not others. I was wantering whether it is only picking up the spud file and not the text files? it shows the camera icons ok or perhaps just picking up the first txt file?? i dont think you can put multiple speedcam.txt files in there. try one file at a time, start igp let it read in the data, delete the txt file, put in the next. repeat procedure for each txt u have. also i think there is a txt to spud converter but i have not used it, try the site suggested by the above poster.
Guest Fizz_daz Posted October 2, 2008 Report Posted October 2, 2008 found an ap to create a spud file.. thanks for the help... however how do you navigate to a contact?
Guest Fizz_daz Posted October 2, 2008 Report Posted October 2, 2008 next thing.. how do you navigate to a contact???
Guest bobobird Posted October 4, 2008 Report Posted October 4, 2008 found an ap to create a spud file.. thanks for the help... however how do you navigate to a contact? great - how about posting a link to that app ?? thanks
Guest Fizz_daz Posted October 8, 2008 Report Posted October 8, 2008 google is your friend... but just this once to safe a few minutes... Export2Igo
Guest bobobird Posted October 9, 2008 Report Posted October 9, 2008 google is your friend... but just this once to safe a few minutes... Export2Igo thanks - got it a few days ago (hehe, but thx for the link, others would find it useful).
Guest Dobbs Posted October 9, 2008 Report Posted October 9, 2008 Sorry for being a little of topic Fizz_daz, but do you find that Igo8 is normally about 10 to 20 yards behind where you actually are on the road, that is the only problem I seem to be having with it at the moment. Thanks.
Guest Fizz_daz Posted October 9, 2008 Report Posted October 9, 2008 only above national speed limits ;) no it's not to bad.. however I do have the baud rate set to something high (I let it auto find the baud rate) so that may help..
Guest Neil5459 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Posted October 9, 2008 only above national speed limits :lol: no it's not to bad.. however I do have the baud rate set to something high (I let it auto find the baud rate) so that may help.. It may be to do with the 'keep on road' option. This maintains the arrow on a road, even if the GPS signal is a little off, but needs some extra processing power. The baud rate would not make any real difference- the baud rate just sets the maximum allowed transfer rate across the COM port, but as the satellite signals are well under 1000 baud anyway, the set rate is largely irrelevant.
Guest Neil5459 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Posted October 9, 2008 next thing.. how do you navigate to a contact??? It's a bit kludgy :lol: During installation, iGO should import your contact details, though it is a bit picky about the address layout. These are saved to a Contacts category in POI To navigate to a contact, you need to know roughly where they are located. Hit Find via the Binocular icon, or the menu system, and Find POI. Now select 'Around Address' and enter the rough location. Press Done, which brings up the POI chooser, from where you can page across to Contacts. Tap Contacts and your Contacts are listing in ascending distance from the selected address. Tap the desired contact, which takes you to the standard Cursor Menu for that location from where you can select 'Set as Destination'
Guest Fizz_daz Posted October 9, 2008 Report Posted October 9, 2008 It's a bit kludgy :lol: During installation, iGO should import your contact details, though it is a bit picky about the address layout. These are saved to a Contacts category in POI To navigate to a contact, you need to know roughly where they are located. Hit Find via the Binocular icon, or the menu system, and Find POI. Now select 'Around Address' and enter the rough location. Press Done, which brings up the POI chooser, from where you can page across to Contacts. Tap Contacts and your Contacts are listing in ascending distance from the selected address. Tap the desired contact, which takes you to the standard Cursor Menu for that location from where you can select 'Set as Destination' ta muchly.. half my addresses have not loaded... yet they are all in the same format... stupid igo.. glad I got TT7 still as they work on that no problem!!!!
Guest Neil5459 Posted October 10, 2008 Report Posted October 10, 2008 ta muchly.. half my addresses have not loaded... yet they are all in the same format... stupid igo.. glad I got TT7 still as they work on that no problem!!!! Same here- I raised it with their support guys when I was Beta testing it, but no real interest was shown. Just told it must be the address format :D I think it relies on the property number to be within the range in the mapping software (so 50 High Street may be recognised, but 55 High Street may not?) At one point I had a context menu in Contacts for 'Navigate to..' which did work, but for the contacts not listed within the POI, of for when I elected not to import contacts, I still got the 'unknown address' error. That context menu has disappeared as well now since I did a hard reset, so I don't know how it got there originally :lol:
Guest Dobbs Posted October 10, 2008 Report Posted October 10, 2008 only above national speed limits :lol: no it's not to bad.. however I do have the baud rate set to something high (I let it auto find the baud rate) so that may help.. Thanks for that, will see how it goes.
Guest squeezo Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Look for "navigate to" in the contextmenu of contacts. It is working for me... Eric
Guest Neil5459 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 Look for "navigate to" in the contextmenu of contacts. It is working for me... Eric As I said above, this option has disappeared in my current installation for some reason :lol: Using the 'official' iGO8 SD card in my Ameo and correctly installed from the 2577 folder.
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