Favourites "My Places"

[raesewell]

A question for the knowledgable ones I think the answer to this question is probably "No" but here goes.
Is there a way to share a group of Favourites "My Places" with someone else or to a file. I have created a .gpx and an .itn file with the points I need but when you load this as a route the place names are converted to location names and not retaining the original names. I am trying to save some friends a bit of time, the only way I can see at the moment is to load the route either on the device or in the web planner but both require re-naming manually.
Any ideas?

 

[canderson]

For a Rider, yes. They're built on an old enough platform that custom POIs are possible. Create a custom POI file (*.ov2) of your favorites. I call mine _Favorites (with the underscore, which keeps it at the top of my list of custom POI groups). Of course, your friends will also need TomTom devices that can handle *.ov2 files. Place names are retained.

You didn't say what your friends are using, so I can't answer for anything beyond the above - yet. It matters rather a lot.

 

[raesewell]

Thank you for your reply yes I know I can use an .ov2 file but not quite what I wanted. As I said I don't think it's possible. I sent my friend who has a Rider 450 an .itn file which he loaded as a route then selected each point individually and saved it to his "My Places" but he had to re-name each waypoint which is a bit of a chore. I suppose the ov2 is a possibility and use the show function.
I'll send him another file (ov2) and see if that is easier.

 

[raesewell]

The POI file worked. FYI My Route App ov2 files do not work in the new Tomtom planner I had to use ITN Converter to save the file to ov2 format then it worked on the Tomtom planner. I have informed MRA and raised a support ticket with them.

 

[canderson]

The POI file worked. FYI My Route App ov2 files do not work in the new Tomtom planner I had to use ITN Converter to save the file to ov2 format then it worked on the Tomtom planner. I have informed MRA and raised a support ticket with them.

Interesting that the My Route *.ov2 files don't work. The basic data format hasn't changed on eons. If you have the one you had trouble with and you could *.zip to me, it would be interesting to take one apart and see why. They're pretty basic in construction.

 

[raesewell]

No worries I have zipped two files, one is working ( Duffers 2024 Stops) the other is the troublesome one ( Duffers 2024 Stops Test)

 

[canderson]

No worries I have zipped two files, one is working ( Duffers 2024 Stops) the other is the troublesome one ( Duffers 2024 Stops Test)

The Duffers 2024 Stops Test.ov2 is a 0 byte file. Might have something to do with it! Or did it just not zip properly?

 

[raesewell]

I have just had a long exchange of emails with MRA and to be honest I have found a way around this and would really rather not spend any more time with this. As far as I know the zip was OK. The test file was a direct save to OV2 from MRA. According to MRA this is a bit of a problem. Apparently you have to save the waypoints as POIs first and the export them, I have found a much less complicated way of doing this via ITN Converter, it's not a function that I use very ofter if at all. So I am happy to wrap this up.

 

[canderson]

I have just had a long exchange of emails with MRA and to be honest I have found a way around this and would really rather not spend any more time with this. As far as I know the zip was OK. The test file was a direct save to OV2 from MRA. According to MRA this is a bit of a problem. Apparently you have to save the waypoints as POIs first and the export them, I have found a much less complicated way of doing this via ITN Converter, it's not a function that I use very ofter if at all. So I am happy to wrap this up.

I also use ITN converter or sometimes a program called GSAK, depending upon what I'm doing.