POI / Speedcam download to your RNS510 - Anyone done it ?

[uklee]

Hi chaps As per the title , has anyone recently successfully loaded any Points of Interest or maybe Speedcams to your rocco's Nav unit ?

How did you do it ? Bought a disk of ebay ? downloaded from another source ? created them yourself ?

I've already had a bit of a search around , but the threads are ages old . Outside of this forum , i found links to an official VW POI app on the german VW website , but you need to have your own 'file' of POI's to load into it -which i haven't got

I was kinda hoping that a kindly member on here , who had done it to their own rocco would maybe share their POI file with me via email so that i could put it on my own SD card and load it into my car

Lee

[metaljay]

Yep I created one myself. I have all the speed cams and all shell garages mapped out (as that's all I use to fill up )

Ill create a guide this Sunday, i have a major delivery at work this week

[wensleydale]

Very Briefly:

I use the speed camera data from here: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Cameras" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (i use "Other - ASC [UK - Speed Zoned Complete | pMobiles: Yes | French: No | Swiss: No ]")
OPTIONAL: I run a custom script to cut the files into my preferred views (I like the option of showing cameras either by speed or type)
Use POInspector from here:http://poinspect0r.blogspot.co.uk/ to create the Personal POI database
then you just copy them in to the car via SD card

[skydemon]

Any chance you guys could do an idiots guide. Hero status for the first one!!!!


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[wensleydale]

I've written a guide (attached) which is the method I use to import Speed Camera POI's. A lot of this has been done from memory so please let me know if any of it needs clarifying or just doesn't make sense/work. There is a lot of preparation to be done the first time you create the db, but updating it is easy.

Importing Speed Camera Locations to the RNS.pdf

The process makes use of a VBScript file to modify the camera data and convert it to the format I prefer. In the interest of openness I have attached the code contained in PrepareCameraData.vbs. You can copy everything in the code block and save it as PrepareCameraData.vbs if you don't feel comfortable downloading the file.

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Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

strSourceFolder = "Source Data"
strOutputFolder = "Output Data"

' Clear any files in the output folder
objFSO.DeleteFile(strOutputFolder & "\*.*")

' Open the source folder
Set objSourceFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strSourceFolder)

Set colFiles = objSourceFolder.Files
' Loop through the list of files and process appropriately
For Each objFile in colFiles
If inStr (objfile.Name, ".asc") Then
    If inStr (objFile.Name, "specs") Then 
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "Average Speed")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "redlight") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "Red Light")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "_mobile_") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "Mobile Confirmed")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "_pmobile_") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "Mobile Predicted")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "gatso") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "Fixed")
    End If
  End If
Next
For Each objFile in colFiles
  If inStr (objfile.Name, ".asc") Then
    If inStr (objFile.Name, "20") Then 
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "20")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "30") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "30")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "40") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "40")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "50") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "50")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "60") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "60")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "70") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "70")
    ElseIf inStr (objFile.Name, "var") Or inStr (objFile.Name, "tba") Then
        Call addToFile(objFile.Name, "VAR")
    End If
  End If
Next
Wscript.Echo "Done"

Sub addToFile(strInputFile, strCategory)
    strDestName = strOutputFolder &"\Speed Camera " & strCategory & ".asc"
    Set objSourceFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile (objSourceFolder & "\" & strInputFile, 1)
    Set strOutputFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile (strDestName,8,True)
    Do Until objSourceFile.AtEndOfStream
        strLine = objSourceFile.ReadLine
        If instr (strLine, ";Longitude,Latitude,Name") = False _And inStr (strLine, "Copyright PocketGPSWorld.com") = False Then
            strOutputFile.WriteLine(strLine)
        End If
    Loop
    strOutputFile.Close
    objSourceFile.Close
End Sub

[uklee]

Hi Guys , firstly - Sincere apologies for the very late reply

i now have my full complement of personal POI's installed including the speedcams

I actually sort of followed two different suggestions ( Metaljay's links and Wensleydale's guide) and mixed and matched the sources / methods to get what i wanted .

These are the sites that i ended up visiting / joining and donating to get the map content and instructions

http://www.gps-data-team.com/
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/24 ... ader-site/
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/

I used PoiEdit 2007 & Z RNS510 poi inspector v5.8 to edit and create my PersonalPOI file

I even pulled the POI's off my TomTom's hard drive and converted them to the correct format , before adding them to my POI folder and then installing them on my RNS510 !

I did find it pretty complicated , and if anyone asked me - i'd struggle to tell them exactly how i did it ( it was a few weeks ago !) Anyway , i managed to muddle through in the end, and i just wanted to reply to this thread and let you know that I'd done it - and most importantly - to thank you both for your help

Lee

[Bizmo]

is there a way to get the RNS to alert you when you are coming up to speed camera this way or do you have to look at the map?

[wensleydale]

No-one has discovered how to do that yet. There are columns in the POI db for speed camera alerts, I've had a play and not been able to get it to work, and I've not seen anyone else manage it either.