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Topic: Sat Nav

Posted By: Mike Kemp
Subject: Sat Nav
Date Posted: 06 August 2010 at 23:35

I have been struggling to enter various POIs data (taken from accurate sources) into my Note Connect sat-nav but continually find the resulting directions are 8-10 mls out.

If I enter the lat & long for my home taken from both the cars own sat-nav data & Google Earth I appear to live 10mls away.

I am using 8 digit data with a - symbol prefixing Westerly data & simply the digits for E & N as per the handbook.

My local dealer is of no help, has anyone encountered this & resolved it. I specifically need to work of lat & longtitude data not post-codes or search options (which have already failed to find the req'd locations)

mtia

Mike

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07 August 2010 at 15:43

bit of an unusual problem. i have installed poi and poi warnings on the connect no problems

the only time the connect has been wrong is with a postcode but it was in the middle of nowhere near lutterworth and that was 3 miles out

Posted By: Mike Kemp
Date Posted: 08 August 2010 at 10:30

Hi Flash22, glad someone has cracked it. Any chance you can put up a few examples of how you'r entering the data so I can compare with my method. I must admit to being confused having to enter longtitude before latitude whereas convention always has it in the reverse order ... such is technology.

Mike

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 08 August 2010 at 16:19

there standard tom tom ones converted to csv iirc

this is what i used when i did mine (well somethin like it)

How to add custom POIs (including speedcam data) to the Connect system

1. Create or download a Garmin .CSV format file of the POIs or speedcam database of your choice.
If it is in another format (Google's KML format for instance), use a conversion program to get the right format. http://www.poiedit.com/downloads.htm - PoiEdit 2007 is one example of such a program.

The Garmin CSV format uses Longitude, Latitude, "Name/ID" and will look like this:

-81.12345,45.98765,"Police Station@35"
-81.12332,45.98622,"Middle School@20"
-81.12131,45.91422,"Pay Phone"

2. Use a USB stick and create the following directories on it:

<USB drive letter>:\myPOIs for custom POIs.
<USB drive letter>:\myPOIs\myPOIWarnings for speedcam data or data you want to see/hear a warning for. The warning sound volume is quite low, I am told.

3. Copy the .CSV file into the directory of your choice.

4. Plug the USB stick into the USB port of your Connect system. A window will pop up on screen saying there are new POIs available.

5. select the 'Download' option on the touch screen. After a few seconds the instalaltion is complete.

6. Additional tip I have read somewhere else: You may want to modify the warning distance from the default 250 yards by changing the setting in the setup menu.

Posted By: Mike Kemp
Date Posted: 08 August 2010 at 19:33

Flash22 Have compared format of the data in your example which is identical to how I've written my spreadsheet. I have even written the destination twice, once enclosed in { } & once outside as per handbook all to no avail.

The location data for my travels is not availble as a Garmin download so I'm forced to actually enter data from Google Earth search results & pilots airfield handbooks.

Back to the drawing board

Mike