I have looked all over this site and tried all the old links for poi edit and poi 2go. POI edit works but does not have maps of USA I beleive or I do not know how to do it and poi2go does not work at all both web based or download as the download is not even a program it is a zip that you rename and then you unzip the cass files not a program file.
I want to create my own POi and not do it using 4 different web sites 1 to get address 1 to change to lat/lon then one to create file then 1 to convert to tom tom file for each address I want
I know there is no way anybody here that is creating these pois is doing it that way.
What program are you using that is still down loadable
Here's how I do it, I startup with Google Earth.
The fact is if you do it with this it will be exactly as where you would see it for real and on your TomTom/Garmin/Navman e.t.c.
For example I made a Total Poi for our country, The Netherlands, and each station is almost dead on the spot
The trick is to make a folder, for example: Burgerking and the you look on the map or input the address, you once verify if it's really there, you place a marker, and there you are.
You repeat this with every single place.
Then you save the folder as a .kml
Now you need to convert the poi to .ov2 for TomTom, you use this program:
http://www.poiedit.com/
You start the program, you load your folder, so in this case burgerking.kml
You save it as .ov2
And there you go, all you need to do is make a logo with it .bmp and then place the logos and the .ov2 file in your North America map on your TomTom.
The small logo needs to be 22 by 22 pixels, preferably 8 bit BMP (Webcolors).
Since Navcore 7 the bigger logo popin up in the left corner is now called: _x2.bmp, so for example you have burgerking.bmp and burgerking_x2.bmp (note that is an underscore, that is SHIFT + _ (next to the zero)).
The _x2.bmp needs to be 44 by 44 pixels and also 8 bit BMP (webcolors).
Once you have it all complete it will work exactly on the GPS mark and if not you can always correct it by going to menu to edit poi's and then save it with your gps location.
It's a lot of work to enter up more than a 100 locations, but it's the most accurate way.
Oh and Google Earth might take some time to start up with over a 1000 places in your folders, so you can easily get something to drink/eat, while it loads