Tomtom Go Converting

[+bblhed]

I just got TomTom Go for my PDA with the Bluetooth reciever for a trip I am taking. I thought to myself, Hmm can I put caches into this thing? I figured this would be nice, not for the actual hunt, but for the drive so I first looked here in the fourms with no luck. I next moved on to Google (Ya gota love Google). I found out that GPSbabel Can convert just about any gps waypoint format to just about any other format, handy! Now all I needed was a nice Logo for caches, something I could know was a cache instantly. So I dug into my bag of Geocaching goodies and found something I could use.

 

INSTRUCTIONS

 

1. Get GPSBabel and load it on your computer.

 

GPSBabel

 

2. Get the cache logo and save it where you can find it on your computer AS A bitmap.

 

Cool Logo

 

3. Take your GPX or LOC file and convert it with GPSBabel and save it as a Tom Tom ov2 file where you can find it.

 

4. Here is where it gets trickey, the ov2 file, and the bmp file have to have the same name like Geocaching.ov2 & Geocaching.bmp

 

5. Take both files and put them onto your portable in the folder with the map set that that they are in. You can find more info about this here. Tom Tom Go How to load POI's

 

I have this working like a dream for me. Just Remember Tom Tom will only get you to the closest point on the road to the cache, you are on your own from there. But with the price of gas, I think this little bit of info will came in handy. Good luck.

[+naviguesser74]

this may help, too:

 

http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blo...0547/index.html

 

and a search on this forum should have found it, I hope.

[+darus67]

How much information can you put into a POI in TomTom?

 

I'm currently doing something similar with Mapopolis on my PPC, but I only get 2 short lines of information about each cache attached to a POI

 

I've often wished for some way to link my map software with GPXSonar so I could tap on a POI on the map and bring up the cache page, or tap on a listing in GPXSonar and have it bring up the map.