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Laughing Man	2010-04-06 , 14:34
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Originally Posted by YoDude

And that is all it needs to do. This I believe is the limit of whatever pre-fetch it uses. It loads just what it needs to give you a quick response when navigating to a "POI near me"

...and Laughing Man I'm sorry if I appeared snippy. The "R" word does that to me sometimes. Having a younger sibling that has been called that most of his life, for most of my life I have volunteered my free time to his community of friends and others who provide support. Again, I apologize for being overly sensitive.

BTW the file I provided has 2455 locations included in it.

If you load it in your local directory when you go to "Browse Map" point to say LA, hit the menu button (between "Options" and "Done") then select "Find Nearby POI", then select "Cams", It will find cams in LA. If you find yourself on the road in LA I'm pretty sure the cams will show up. They have for me when I am outside my home area in DC or NYC.

Could you share the methods you used to convert a "file found on the net" to a useful Sygic POI? I have been working on and off for two weeks now trying to find all the idiosyncrasies of a Sygic POI file in order to post a "How to". Maybe you found an easier way.

I'm sorry too. I tend not to associate ******ed with its usage towards those with physical or mental disabilities (I've worked with quite a few children with mental illnesses when I was an undergrad in Psychology). So I forgot that term could be interpreted in a different way. I meant the usage of a word as in it seems redundant and pointless if I had to put the UPI file in every state and district (say VA, DC, and MD).

So are you saying that if I place the speed camera UPI file in say UMD (for Maryland) if I'm in Virginia I can still get the speed cameras in VA without having to place the speed camera UPI file in UVA (for Virginia)?

As for POI, I've been trying to use the POI converter (http://www.sygic.com/index.php/en/do...convertor.html) though I haven't gotten it to work with the files from POI Factory, though that may be because.

a) I'm running Sygic's POI converter program (Windows only) through Wine in Ubuntu. If this is the case I have to use the software in Windows (I'm trying this tonight)

b) The CVS files provided by POI Factory aren't in the right order. I'll have to compare it with the way yours is laid out to see if I need to re-order the contents of the file.

BTW POI Factory is a great community with lots of useful POI files, for example there's one just for Starbucks in the USA if people are Starbucks addicted, likewise there's a great one for speed cameras and red light cameras (the later two require you to be an active member, e.g. 3 weeks of at least one post a week).

Edit: It seems the problem with the POI converter program is it needs the files to be in Sygic's example format. So basically tabs instead of comma deliminations.

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Originally Posted by ysss

They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...

Last edited by Laughing Man; 2010-04-06 at 23:23.

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