Thread: POI in Maemo Mapper. Dazed and Confused
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2009-07-10 , 21:16
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Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
1) My understanding is that MM only uses ONE POI file (the one you define in the settings). When downloading more .loc files and converting them to .db files is there any way that these files can be combined? Right now I have to change the POI file every time I want to look up another geo-cache location. I'd love to have a POI file that contains a lot of them.
If you have a program or a script to convert "loc" files to something Maemo Mapper can read, technically the same thing should be able to add those POIs to existing database.

Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
2) How on earth do I add an address as a POI? Or is that even the best way to do it? I don't need to create a route to it...I just need a 'pin' on the map I can have the map 'go to' like you 'go to nearest POI'.
Plus: Same question here: If I want to ADD a new POI/address how do I do that without losing the existing ones?
POIs are just saved coordiantes with some additional information such as name and category. If you want to add an address as a POI, I'll have to tap-and-hold on the location, optionally replace the coordinates, and set a label. Keeping old POIs isn't an issue, because Maemo Mapper simply adds the POI to existing database. Also see my answer to question 1.

Personally I have some 1000 POIs in the database and I manage them with a Perl script running on my workstation.