How to import favorite Points of Interst (POI) into Centrafuse.

[Jan]

Official FAQ located here


Open Centrafuse and go to Navigation then to Navigation Favorites. From within the Navigation Favorites, create a new Folder with the “+” sign, enter this folder, then click the “+” sign again. One of the options listed here is ‘IMPORT’. This allows you to browse to a .CSV file located on your computer. A .CSV file will need to be created using one of the programs and formats listed below. The list below includes the only currently supported formats. Note that any .CSV file will load, so if you already have some POI data, you can adjust your .CSV to one of the following formats. The specific map for the area you are importing POIs for should already be loaded. You can then select to Show your favorite on the map and an icon will show up for all the favorites listed in the favorite’s folder.

You can also go to “C:\Program Files\Flux Media\Centraufuse\UserData\Favorites” folder. From here you can change the icon for you favorite folder by modifying the name of your favorite folder .BMP File. For example if you have a folder called PERSONAL for favorites, change the PERSONAL.BMP file and it will show up with that icon on the map when selected in Navigation to show.

You can also have it give you an alert as you approach this favorite. You can do this by placing, for the same example above, a file called PERSONAL.WAV in the “C:\Program Files\Flux Media\Centrafuse\Voice\All” folder.

• MapMonkey
  • "unused", longitude, latitude, "description"

• PocketGPSWorld
  • “longitude,latitude, "description"

• POIHandler
  • "description","unused", longitude, latitude

• NetStumbler
  • latitude,longitude, "description"
    • (This version supports latitude and longitude having N, S, W, E in front of lat/long, if preceded by S latitude will be multiplied by -1, if precede by W longitude will be multiplied by -1)

NOTE: If a field has quotes around it, then that means it’s string data within the .CSV file. The longitude and latitude should be numbers only. There are unused fields in these formats, but the .CSV file has to be in one of the formats above to work with the Favorites import utility.

[ccsnet]

Jan - at what distance from the POI will it provide an alert ?

I know I've been on about this before at David an he says this is the way to do it but I want a proper speed cam system eg - Freedrive 1. That allows import of a CSV file ( as above ) but is able to split down the 'types' of cameras available in to the internal data base.

From this data you get an approaching warning ( eg a beeb beeb based on distance ) down to a verbal warning of the camera type and speed and also a visual indcation with the further display of the direction that cam is facing. Further more having spoken to CDR about this the warning its self is tied in to the actual road through D3 rather than a proxcimity to increase acuracy when driving on nearby roads.....

The POI warner plugin does some of this but again I beleive like this function its based on proxcimity ?

Terran

[David]

Originally Posted by ccsnet

Jan - at what distance from the POI will it provide an alert ?

I know I've been on about this before at David an he says this is the way to do it but I want a proper speed cam system eg - Freedrive 1. That allows import of a CSV file ( as above ) but is able to split down the 'types' of cameras available in to the internal data base.

From this data you get an approaching warning ( eg a beeb beeb based on distance ) down to a verbal warning of the camera type and speed and also a visual indcation with the further display of the direction that cam is facing. Further more having spoken to CDR about this the warning its self is tied in to the actual road through D3 rather than a proxcimity to increase acuracy when driving on nearby roads.....

The POI warner plugin does some of this but again I beleive like this function its based on proxcimity ?

Terran

This is not currently possible, you get audio alerts at 500 and 100 meters from the POI...

david

[ccsnet]

Originally Posted by David

This is not currently possible, you get audio alerts at 500 and 100 meters from the POI...

david

I know its not possible at the mo but it would be a nice feature..... it must be doable as I said CDR did it with D3.....

Its the last real killer feature I think CF needs ( bar TMC via the net / Trafficsam )

Terran

[David]

Originally Posted by ccsnet

I know its not possible at the mo but it would be a nice feature..... it must be doable as I said CDR did it with D3.....

Its the last real killer feature I think CF needs ( bar TMC via the net / Trafficsam )

Terran

I agree and will add to feature list, I thought you were asking if it would be in 2.0

david

[ccsnet]

Originally Posted by David

I agree and will add to feature list, I thought you were asking if it would be in 2.0

david

Naaaaah..... I know it wont..... its more a wish list thing.... btw - feel free to say I'm wrong - I dont mind, I always try and be constructive where I can rather stay quiet..... I think its the Project Manager in me

Terran

[fridgemagnet]

Originally Posted by ccsnet

Jan - at what distance from the POI will it provide an alert ?

I know I've been on about this before at David an he says this is the way to do it but I want a proper speed cam system eg - Freedrive 1. That allows import of a CSV file ( as above ) but is able to split down the 'types' of cameras available in to the internal data base.

Terran

Assuming your using the downloads from PocketGPS World, select the Destinator 3 formate csv that is split by camera type.
Create a new favourite for each camera type and import as normal.
Rename the bmp files supplied to match the name of the favourite and your away.

[ccsnet]

Originally Posted by fridgemagnet

Assuming your using the downloads from PocketGPS World, select the Destinator 3 formate csv that is split by camera type.
Create a new favourite for each camera type and import as normal.
Rename the bmp files supplied to match the name of the favourite and your away.

Your quite right and I did follow that but if you have a look at Freedrive you would see what I mean about how its handles 'speed camera' events and not just 'poi' events....

Terran

[rhinocat]

Jan,

I had a POI file this weekend with 9,000 POI's for geocaching. When I tried to import it into CF it was extremely slow, after 30 minutes it only had about 35% imported. Is there a way, or a place, I can put the file straight into CF without having to do an import? Or is the file just so large it takes a while?

Thanks,

rhinocat

[amemo06]

long, very long, terribly long, ages.
Yes this is definitively true.
I currently do not use the import and do my files directly using POIEdit.
It takes exactly 1,5 seconds to build all my .DAT files (>15000 locations).
As a comparison, CF for some files took more than 1 hour and for some of them I simply did not go to the end....