mario.costasa wrote:
Hi Steve
Am I missing something here?
Hi Mario
Thanks for taking the time to put together your reply.
The way I use my TomTom when I'm leading is a bit unconventional but works really well.
The thing I particularly like about doing it this way is that it is flexible.
I'm not committed to follow the route rigidly. Unlike when following the trail of a gpx file.
I plan a route for the day, but can simply navigate from lane to lane to fuel stop to cafe etc as required.
I also find the TomTom much easier to glance down and follow, rather than a line over the top of an OS Map image.
I give the lanes I use a number for both ends and put it on the paper OS map.
I then create a POI Catagory on the TomTom and add both ends of each lane as a POI. (Also the fuel stops, cafe, toilets etc)
Navigation is then very easy from lane to lane in the usual way. i.e. destination - POI - POI Category xyz - POI 123
You can use the "find" or "POI near you" once you get going.
I have 2 ways of creating these POI's
1. doing a recce and adding a POI at site using the "my location" or
2. adding the POI using the "point on map" facility directly on the TomTom. It is sometimes hard to be accurate, as there aren't too many references, but it's surprising how close it can be by comparing the shape of the road to the OS map. Often the Byways and UCR's show up on the TomTom as a dotted road anyway.
It sound a bit of faff but once it's done - it's done
So what I was getting at, is that it would be really handy to be able to plot each end of the lanes as a waypoint in a gpx file and convert them to an ov2 file and hey presto each waypoint becomes a POI.
I still haven't had any joy..
However I have stumbled across a way to create a route to follow using a Tomtom.
It was a Youtube post by the late Sven Galie.
What he did was create a route as gpx file in the usual way, but only plotting the start of each lane as a waypoint.
It is then possible to convert the gpx file to an ITN file for TomTom. This is an itinerary file.
This file is simply dropped into the ITN folder on the TomTom and becomes available to use via the itinerary option when doing the "navigate to".
It is then possible to use this itinerary file to navigate to the end destination via each lane.
i.e. it's a "normal" TomTom from the end of one lane to the start of the next.
The TomTom asks if you would like to make the last waypoint "the destination".
After accepting the "YES" prompt it navigates in the normal way, but via these waypoints (start of lanes)
Another little bonus I came across was that if the ITN file is opened as a wordpad document, it is possible to change the text in the usual way and name all the lanes to match my numbering scheme on the paper OS map.
Hope that makes sense, it sounds long winded but I get on very well doing it this way.
Steve
PS I have also discovered that not all TomToms have the "manage POI" function. TomTom in their wisdom removed this facility and even deleted it from old devices when users upgraded on MyDrive.