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HERE'S HOW TO ADD YOUR OWN POIs TO THE CONNECT SATNAV FROM SCRATCHThis is how I did it, when completed you can either add the file to the my POI warnings or My POIs the difference being warnings will come up as a warning on the screen much like speed camera warnings and My POIs have to be nominated as a destination.For this demo I have chosen a speed camera that does not appear on the speed camera data basei have, I will put it in its own File but if you wanted to you could include it into the speed camera data base.1. To start we first of all need to create two folders one inside the other. Remember these folders are case sensitive name the first folder ""myPOIs""� without quotation marks, then inside that one make another folder named ""myPOIWarnings""�. You will not need to do this if you are adding to an existing data base. Now we can start.2. Load up Google maps
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wland zoom to maximum onto the chosen location put the mouse pointer on the exact spot and Right Click, and on the drop down list Click on ""what's here""�.3. You will notice that the Longitude and Latitude readings appear in the search box make a note of these they have already been converted to decimal for you. If you do not have access to Google maps but know the settings in Degrees, minutes and seconds as appears on the connect satnav if you have used that method to locate your location you can use this website .
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html make sure that you enter the latitude and longitude settings in the correct boxes. Or another way to decimalise is to divide the minutes by 60 and the seconds by 3600 so a latitude setting of 52 degrees 25 mins and 06.5 seconds would work out as, the degrees stay the same i.e. 52., next the minutes 25 divided by 60 is 0.41666 and finely the seconds 06.5 is divided by 3600 is .001805 add them up we have latitude 52.4184 . A lot easier to use google I think on this one.4. Now we have the longitude and latitude readings we can open up excel. In the first row/column (A1) you can give it a title if you want, or get stuck straight in.
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/DDDMMSS-decimal.html<t><t><t></t></t></t><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="328" ="ecxmsonormaltable"="" style="width: 246pt; border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: 4.65pt; "><t><tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; "><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="37" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 28pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; "></td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="227" colspan="3" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 170pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">MY VERY OWN WARNINGS</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="64" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 48pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; "></td></tr><tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; "><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="37" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 28pt; 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"></td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="85" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 63.75pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">LONGITUDE</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="71" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 53.1pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">LATITUDE</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="71" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 53.15pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">WARNING</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="64" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 48pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; "></td></tr><tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; "><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="37" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 28pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">1</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="85" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 63.75pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">-0.71004</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="71" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 53.1pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">52.4184</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="135" colspan="2" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 101.15pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">"Anything You Want"</td></tr><tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; "><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="37" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 28pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; ">2</td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="85" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 63.75pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; "></td><td height="17" valign="bottom" width="71" nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 0cm; 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height: 12.75pt; padding-top: 0cm; "></td></tr></t></table>In the warning line (""Anything You Want""�) you must put quotation marks at each end of this wording for it to appear on the connect screen as your warning.5. Once you have entered all of your data and warnings we now have to save it as a file on our PC or straight on to your memory stick. I do it on my PC so I have a copy.Click on ""save""� and in the pop up box in the ""save in""� box locate the ""myPOIWarnings""� folder that you created at the start, give it a file name i.e.Your POIs and in the ""save as type""� click on the drop down list and select ""CSV (comma delimited)""�Now save it.
6. When you click on save this box will appear click on yes.
7. Also this box may appear.
Click OK8. Now we are ready to load it up into the connect system on the QQ. Armed with your memory stick plug it into your USB in the car, the system should auto load and ask for confirmation to down load new data click ok. When it has finished you can check the download destination by confirming start if the screen presents itself or checking your POIs on the system.
That's itonce you have got this far you will come up with your own ideas, short cuts and ways of speeding the process up you might even think it's not worth it and that did pass through my mind as well.I have got a warning that says ""Warning The Wife is Watching""� which pops up as I get near home, it gets a few laughs and another one ""Drunks in the Road""� as I get near my favourite pub.
NOTEDepending which side of the Meridian line you live on whether the Longitude setting has a ""“ sign or not so pay attention to the google settings.