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Poi editor for IGo or Mio

A handy tool that lets you manage your IGo or Miomap POIs directly from your desktop. Drag and drop .kml, .kmz, .gpx, .csv, .ov2 etc. files to iGo explorer. Your Mio needs to be unlocked, and you must have access to your Mio with ActiveSync. Igo user can use this software without any modifications you only need ActiveSync to connect to your pda. Create new POI groups, manage excisting poi's, change name or location of pio's and import new PIO groups.

 Download here.  (requires .Net Framework 2.0).

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Tip: with this site you can convert any address to longitude and latitude coordinates. This is very useful if you want to create a POI file with several entries.

Comments (39) 27.03.2007. 20:10

Skin Woody for Miomap V3.2

Today i have found this skin for miomap v3.2. This skin looks perfect with the wooden interior of my car.
Download: woody.zip

 




After you have downloaded the file rename the file to data.zip. Use the Mio Transfer hack to navigate to My Flash DiskMioMapMioMap and replace the data.zip on your Mio with this data.zip (do not unzip it, just load the whole zip file as is). I'd suggest that you both copy the original data.zip off the Mio and save it to your PC as well as renaming it and leaving it on the Mio before you copy the new one in.


Comments (11) 27.03.2007. 19:54

Route simulation fast or slow

Default route simulation is fast. But if you wish you can change the settings so that the route simulation will be in normal speed. Do following:
Create a text file called SYS.TXT and add following lines

[debug]
slowsim=1

Now place this file in your IGO or Miomap directory on your storage card.

Comments (9) 27.03.2007. 19:49

Modifying voice instructions

When you approach a roundabout (rotary/traffic circle) then voice  instructions are given 800, 300 and 100 metres prior, but only the very last one tells you which exit to take. It would be much better if the 300 meter announcement would contain the complete instructions, including the number of the exit to take.
 
So now we are going to change the voice instructions. The voice file is stored in the map voice, every zip file is a voice you can select in I-go or Miomap. In the zip file you find an file called commands.csv. We have to modify this file, extract this file to yoour pc with full file path. after the modifications we have to add this file to the zip file also with full file path.

Look for following line in the file:
,"300[equal,minsilence=10,if_not_2]","*prepare_to_enter_roundabout",
"prepare_to enter roundabout in %dist"

Replace this line with following:
,"300[equal,minsilence=10,if_not_2,exit]","*enter_roundabout_exit",
"in %dist enter roundabout take %exit exit"

Now we have a voice command in 300 meters prior to the roundabout telling which exit we have to take.

Comments (15) 27.03.2007. 19:46

Customizing the startscreen

In this first article i will explain how to customize the startscreen. The startscreen is located in the data.zip file, before you make modifications make sure you have made a backup of this file.

I-Go:
In the data.zip file you can find 3 or 2 files named "loading1.jpg", "loading2.jpg" or "loading3.jpg".

Loading1.jpg is used for 240x320 resolution, loading2.jpg is used for 320x240 resolution. Loading3.jpg is only used in I-go for the 240x240 resolution for the hp ipaq hw6500,6510 and hw6515. Extract the loading files inclusive pathname to your pc, then replace the loadingx.jpg with the new loading jpg file and add these new files to the data.zip file.

Miomap:
Extract data.zip file to your pc. Replace the loading.jpg in uip_miomio folder with the loading1.jpg after you have renamed the file to loading.jpg. Zip the data file again and recplace the data file on the sd card with the new dat.zip file

Below are customized startscreens for I-go and Miomap v3.2. Click on an image for full picture which can be saved to your own computer.

loading1.jpg

loading2.jpg

loading3.jpg

Comments (2) 25.03.2007. 16:47

Saving your route

Normally you don't need to save a route on your Mio or in IGo, since you can just create a POI for the destination and regenerate the route dynamically when you want to go there. If you want to see where you actually drove along the way, you can record a track log. However, there could be times when you have created a more complex route with multiple waypoints, and you want to save it. This could be because:
- you imported the route as a set of waypoints from an online route planning site, and you don't want to lose the effort of setting it up on the Mio.
- you set up a complex route for a destination that you don't go to very often, perhaps in a different city from where you live, and you want to save it for future re-use.
- you want to share your route with another Mio user.

In that case all you need to know is that the current route is stored in the file "route.dat". This file can be found at /My Flash Drive/My Documents/MioMap or in My Documents/IGO 2006 depending on the device you have. You can save the route by copying and saving the file with an other name like "route_to_vacation.dat". Just copy the saved file back to "route.dat" to restore the route. You need to either have a hacked Mio or use Mio Transfer hack.exe of course to access this directory. IGo users can just use the file explorer on the PDA to copy the file.

Comments (11) 22.03.2007. 18:04

Why does it sometimes take so long to get the GPS signal

The very first time you start up your Mio device it could take up to 10 minutes before you have GPS reception. This is normal and is due to the fact that no internal GPS data is present.

Afterwards the GPS reception will be a lot quicker. The time it takes to find a GPS signal will increase in case you move your device without it being switched on. This is because it has to look for satellites from its new position. If you do not move the device while it is switched off, it will remember where to look for the satellites and find the GPS signal faster.

Also the weather conditions and the environment around you can influence the gps fix.


Comments (102) 27.01.2007. 20:38

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