Creating a POI to upload for everyone (Pedro?)

[Evil Scotsman]

Good Afternoon,

I would like to create a POI to upload for everyone to use for Ninety Nine rest.
How would I go about this as far as what size and software to use for the icon (preferably free) creating a zip file, a POI warning, and last but not least uploading to the web site?

Thanks, I got many poi's from here and would like to contribute!

 

[Pedro2NR]

Are you interested of making the POI or have you made it?
The easiest and unreliable method of making POIs is using MyPOI.
You can search for it using google.
I make POI alerts by a text to speech program I have on my laptop and then covert the file into a .ogg file for the tomtom.
The icon I make by locating a logo of some sort using google images and using Paint to edit it etc.
Let me know how I can help.

 

[Evil Scotsman]

I downloaded MyPoi and unzipped it to a folder called MyPoi, but I do not see any .exe files. only class, bitmap,and gif. Don't know where to go from here? I have not created the file yet. The first one I want to do is for Ninety Nine restaurants. THANKS MUCH

 

[Pedro2NR]

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[cjolly]

This is how I did it...

Sure this is somewhere on the site but here is how I did it...

Just followed the steps here: http://www.tomtom.com/lib/doc/TomTomTips/index.html?poi_set_using_makeov2.htm

To make my POI set I created a excel file of all the location addresses and phone numbers if I could find them.

Then I used this website to geo code the list addresses to co-ordinates: http://www.batchgeocode.com/

I then put them in the correct order and made sure everything was in the correct format and downloaded the tools from tomtom to create the ov2 file.

 

[nino2469]

how do you get the mypoi program. the link provided on google doesn't come up.

 

[Pedro2NR]

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