Using a TomTom as a GPS help — Slightly Techie

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SpecialKev Jul 16, 2007 19:48:26

Hi all,

First post so be gentle with me!

Since only learning to drive last year (I'm 35) i've just started travelling around in search of our megalithic ancestry. I've just last week bought myself a TomTom One UK to ease the burden of getting easily lost. I decided to plan a trip around the Teesside area, i added a few sites using the Lat/Long from TMA onto the TomTom but started to think 'there must be an easier way than this'. A few google searches later i came across this - Tyre (http://www.tyre.tk/). I downloaded the TMA Google Earth .kml file and imported into Tyre and saved the output to an .ov2 file (the TomTom Point of Interest file format). Jackpot! - i thought as it was processing, this is exactly what i wanted to do.

BUT, on re-booting the TomTom, all the sites are in there but they are labelled as Hillfort

S SpecialKev
SpecialKev Jul 16, 2007 19:53:01
Replying to SpecialKev

Nuts! Looks like i wrote too much there!

The sites are named Hillfort(s)

C Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Jul 17, 2007 19:07:34
Replying to SpecialKev

Hmm, that’s a handy piece of software.

I’ve just had a play with it using TomTom on a PDA so this may be different for you, but if you save each category (ie stone circles) from Google Earth instead of the whole file, then open them in Tyre and save as individual POI files on your device then hopefully it should work ok (it does on a pda anyway). It’s also possible to associate a small bmp icon with each category too. Hope that helps.

-Chris