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POI visibility II

You can also set the distance from the standard 100m to another value by changing some values in the file called default.vis, which is located in configdefault.vis in your data.zip.

You will have to change the following data:

; ------------------------ POI ----------------------------
; poi=, "","", ,"",
; font colors and icon names are listed in mapvisual.ini

;[Label0m-500m]
[Label0m-1000m]
;area=0,1,2,3
area = 0,1,2,3,4,5,6

; parse settlements to show the name of the closest
;poi="Settlement.*", "", "", 0, "", 0
;poi="Services.*", "", "label_poi", 9,"poi",-1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Transportation.*", "", "label_poi", 9,"poi",-1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Shopping.*", "","label_poi", 9,"poi",-1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Entertainment.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi",-1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Culture.*","", "label_poi", 11,"poi",-1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Sports_Recreation.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi",-1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Emergency_Government.*", "", "label_poi", 11, "poi", -1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Food_Drink.*", "", "label_poi", 11, "poi", -1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Lodging.*", "", "label_poi", 11, "poi", -1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Artificial_Landmark.*", "", "label_poi", 11, "poi", -1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Natural_Landmark.*", "", "label_poi", 11, "poi", -1,"poi2",-1
;poi="Water_landmark.*", "", "label_poi", 11, "poi", -1,"poi2",-1

poi="Settlement.*", "", "", 0, "", 0
poi="Services.*", "", "label_poi", 9,"poi2",-1
poi="Transportation.*", "", "label_poi", 9,"poi2",-1
poi="Shopping.*", "","label_poi", 9,"poi2",-1
poi="Entertainment.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Culture.*","", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Sports_Recreation.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Emergency_Government.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Food_Drink.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Lodging.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Artificial_Landmark.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Natural_Landmark.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1
poi="Water_landmark.*", "", "label_poi", 11,"poi2",-1


Put a semi-colon (;) in front of the red lines or delete these lines and replace them with the blue lines. By changing the label to [Label0m-1000m] all POIs will become visible from a distance of 1000 meters.

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Comments (3) 30.12.2007. 16:35

POI visibility

Custom POI's are visible on the map, but when you zoom out only a little blue dot is visible. There is an option to change this. First set your POI visibility to the maximum (10 km). To make the POI's more visible we have to modify the scheme file, this file can be found in the  \My FlashDisk\miomap\miomap\scheme directory. Copy the scheme file you are using to your PC and unzip the color.ini from this file. Look in the color.ini file for following lines:
poi="gfx/day/poi6x6.spr"
poi2="gfx/day/poi26x26.spr"
Now we make the value of poi equal to the value of poi2
poi="gfx/day/poi26x26.spr"
poi2="gfx/day/poi26x26.spr"
Now save the color.ini file and zip it back to the scheme file. Place the modified scheme file back to your device and start Miomap or IGo.

Make sure that you don't have to many visible poi groups,

before

after modification

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Comments (8) 07.04.2007. 12:44

Convert Tomtom poi files to Mio or Igo

This article describes how we can convert a Tomtom poi file to iGO or Miomap. 

Step 1: Download a Tomtom ov2 file to your pc. For this example we can use the poi file with camping sites in France, Italy or Spain.
Step 2: Connect your mio/pda to your pc with activeSync.
Step 3: Start POI explorer and choose "file" "import" "Igo database from device"
Step 4: Open a window with the direcory where you have put the ov2 file
Step 5: Drag the file to POI explorer and drop it on "Igo POI Database"
Step 6: Click "file", "export", "Igo database to device" and wait for the popup.

 

See also our article about POI editor for iGo or Miomap

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Comments (2) 27.03.2007. 20:13

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).

Screenshot

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.

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Comments (22) 27.03.2007. 20:10