Marked Places

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Hi, How can I get marked places out of the Rider?
During a tour you can mark places (I hope that the name used in English in the Rider).
These places are stored in the Rider under My Places and Marked Places, but how can I get them out of the Rider?
Thanks for a hint.

Rgs.
Jörgen
 
Hi

In your places press delete a new place page is displayed check the places to delete
 
I would swear that I'd seen somewhere that someone had written a bit of code to parse out the favorites when downloading your information from TomTom, but I didn't see it. Here's how you can do it for yourself, but it's a messy one by one process. If you have a lot of them, a short program to parse the json file (see below) would be more practical.

If you go to
and select the cog wheel at the bottom ("SETTINGS), then "MYDRIVE", you'll notice that the 2nd option in the list is "Download your MyDrive data".


DL2.jpg



What will be returned to you in the way of a download is a file called youraccountname_MyDrive.json.gz
When opened with your favorite archive extractor, that in turn will produce a text file called youraccountname_MyDrive.json (Javascript Object Notation).

That file is quite a mess of old historical work you may have done with MyDrive in the past, and buried in it will be your 'favorites'.

Copy and paste the entire content of the file at this site https://jsoneditoronline.org
and then click on the button in the lower left that says "FORMAT". That will organize things to make them readable.

Now, click on the magnifying (search) icon in the bar at the top and then search for the word favoritesinterop

You will see entries that look like this. The bits that will be important to you are the "latitude", "longitude" and "name" fields. Note that the latitude and longitude don't include the requisite decimal. Decimals are assumed. For both, there are six digits after the decimal, so the coordinates in the example above are really 40.298480 and -105.063160.

{
"address": "{\"street\":\"Banjo Drive\",\"number\":\"367\",\"postcode\":\"80513-3842\",\"place\":\"Berthoud\",\"stateCode\":\"CO\",\"countryCodeISO3\":\"USA\",\"formattedAddress\":\"367 Banjo Drive, Berthoud, CO 80513, USA\",\"poiCategory\":\"ADDRESS\",\"origin\":\"TOM_TOM\",\"originId\":\"0.8758935829450303\"}",
"color": "#00A2BD",
"creation": 1675731125490,
"icon": "GENERIC"
},
"location": {
"locationType": "RawCoordinate",
"pointPosition": {
"latitude": 40298480,
"longitude": -105063160

},
"uri": "",
"version": 1
},
"metadata": {
"name": "Sherwood Berthoud",
"starred": true
}
}
},
 
Hi,

it looks like there is no possibility to get the stored placed back from the Rider to MyDrive. Sync is only in one direction. :oops::rolleyes:

By the way, the data in the json file can be converted to *ov2 files with the program TomTom Poi. https://chbworld.net/software/tomtompoi.html.
When converting, you can select the "My Places" to be converted, so that it would be possible to convert only the freshly created ones.
(From Lochfrass in the German TT Forum)
 
Ok, I played with the Rider again and there is indeed a solution.
You need to go under your places / marked places and click on one of the places and click again on add place.
Then take the given name or rename it, after this the black symbol chances to standard color.
After connecting the Rider with the internet, that place appears in MyDrive.
Now you can use the above method to get the coordinates out of the MyDrive data.

There is also a German tool, where you can convert the selected data into POI (in ov2 or gpx) very useful but in German.


My God how complicated.
 

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