[gps-talkusers] Re: Where did my User POI file go?
- From: Charles LaPierre <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:35:27 -0700
Hello Everyone
One other thing to remember is if you make a new folder and point the
GPS software to use that other maps folder if you want the additional
User Public POIs and RMF pois you need to copy them into that
directory as well (ie. you will have a copy in your maps folder and
another copy of these two additional POI files in your Arizona folder.
There are pros / cons to having them all in one folder or separate folders.
Pros for 1 folder
one combined user.poi file with all pois you create in one place
Only one copy of the RMF and user public pois (saves drive space)
You can create routes across both maps.
Cons for 1 folder
one combined user.poi file (yes this is a pro and a con because you
will have both Arizona pois you create and your California user pois
intermixed in this one file)
You have to select which state you want when doing an address search
Pro's for two folders
A separate User.poi file for each state so they are relevant for the
map you have loaded.
Address searching will default to the single map you have loaded.
Con's for two folders
Duplicate User Public and RMF POIs in each folder.
two user.poi files named the same thing
You must remember to switch map folders when you transition from
California to Arizona
You can not create a route from California to Arizona because both
maps would need to be loaded at the same time.
There may be others if you can think of any please post them as well
Hope this helps
Charles.
At 11:58 AM 8/26/2007, you wrote:
Hello,
We suggest placing all maps you will use in the "maps" folder.
if you do create another folder for Arizona, once you switch to that
folder and create a user poi, a new user.poifile is created in the
new folder.
if you have all maps in one folder, then no matter where you are, all
user pois go into the same user.poi file in the maps folder.
Hope this isn't as confusing as I think it sounds.
Chris
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:42:20 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I live in California but will be going to Arizona for a weekend shortly.
>I just downloaded the arizona folder and put it in my maps folder
>which also has my California maps in that same folder.
>
>Do you recommend leaving them in the same folder or creating another
>maps Arizona folder for the Arizona folder?
>If I do that would any user pois I may create while in Arizona stay
>in my California folder or would they be placed in the Arizona folder?
>I hope this isn't to confusing.
>If it is, just be glad I'm not talking about all fifty states!
>
>John
>At 10:26 PM 8/7/2007, Charles LaPierre wrote:
>>Hi Joleen
>>The POI file gets saved as soon as you add the POI so I can't see
>>that being the problem.
>>Also if you edit the POIs as soon as you modify or delete a POI in
>>the editor that content gets saved, it doesn't behave like in 3.5
>>where you could back out of the edits afterwards, so that has
>>changed since 3.5.
>>
>>The only other thing that could be is the user.poi file gets saved
>>in your maps/poi folder. If you recently changed where the system
>>looks for the maps then that is what happened, and there is another
>>user.poi file in your other maps directory. You can copy that
>>user.poi file to your new maps folder but if you already started a
>>new user.poi file then you will have to just keep one user.poi file
>>and recreate those other POIs that are in the other file.
>>
>>The idea behind this is. For example you have 2 map directories
>>lets say "maps" (default home state of Georgia) and then when you go
>>to a trip to lets say Ohio, you have a "mapsOhio" directory. Any
>>pois you add to your default "maps" directory go in the user.poi
>>file in the maps directory which are related to the map of
>>Georgia. Now you go on your trip to Ohio, you switch the program to
>>use the "mapsOhio" directory, now there will not be any user pois in
>>here (because those user pois are in your "Maps" directory which
>>really refer to the area in and around Georgia) but when you add a
>>new user poi you are now in Ohio at the time and these new POIs you
>>add are related to the Ohio map and are separate from your Georgia POIs.
>>
>>I hope that made sense.
>>Charles.
>>
>>
>>At 07:18 PM 8/7/2007, you wrote:
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I was very surprised recently when I could find no POIs when I knew
>>>that I was standing at the site where I had made one and others
>>>were not far off. I then went into edit the User POI file only to
>>>discover that I had one POI. It was my most recently created one.
>>>
>>>Now, is there a circumstance in which the file could have been
>>>lost? I have no recollection of doing anything to it. I know that
>>>I have created user POIs in version 4.
>>>
>>>Barring anything stupid on my part, I wonder if one can create a
>>>situation whereby the file is not saved. I don't remember having a
>>>BN crash while writing a POI.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>Charles M. La Pierre CTO
>>Sendero Group, LLC
>>
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>>
>>
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Charles M. La Pierre CTO
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