UK Speed Camera GPI file
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UK Speed Camera GPI file
Hi,
Can someone post a copy of the GPI file for UK speed cameras?
added on 31/03/2017:
I found a free website www.POIPlaza.com which you can download by category "speedcam" and pick GB (UK). It may not be as updated as other fee-paying service but it is good enough for me and free. I found 5 types of speed camera for the UK. Download as Garmin CSV files, unzip and use Garmin POILoader to create the GPI file. Make sure you select Feet/MPH option for the UK. Copy to POI folder on the SD card. I will give it a test drive tonight.
Can someone post a copy of the GPI file for UK speed cameras?
added on 31/03/2017:
I found a free website www.POIPlaza.com which you can download by category "speedcam" and pick GB (UK). It may not be as updated as other fee-paying service but it is good enough for me and free. I found 5 types of speed camera for the UK. Download as Garmin CSV files, unzip and use Garmin POILoader to create the GPI file. Make sure you select Feet/MPH option for the UK. Copy to POI folder on the SD card. I will give it a test drive tonight.
Last edited by markchenguk; Mar 31, 2017 at 07:26 AM.
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Hi,
Can someone post a copy of the GPI file for UK speed cameras?
added on 31/03/2017:
I found a free website www.POIPlaza.com which you can download by category "speedcam" and pick GB (UK). It may not be as updated as other fee-paying service but it is good enough for me and free. I found 5 types of speed camera for the UK. Download as Garmin CSV files, unzip and use Garmin POILoader to create the GPI file. Make sure you select Feet/MPH option for the UK. Copy to POI folder on the SD card. I will give it a test drive tonight.
Can someone post a copy of the GPI file for UK speed cameras?
added on 31/03/2017:
I found a free website www.POIPlaza.com which you can download by category "speedcam" and pick GB (UK). It may not be as updated as other fee-paying service but it is good enough for me and free. I found 5 types of speed camera for the UK. Download as Garmin CSV files, unzip and use Garmin POILoader to create the GPI file. Make sure you select Feet/MPH option for the UK. Copy to POI folder on the SD card. I will give it a test drive tonight.
According to https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...map-pilot.html, the gpi filename needs to contans "camera" or "redlight" to have alert. Don't know how true this is.
I put the SD card back into the car. I cannot find any POI category, nor I found the camera nearby my home. I can see the coordinates of the camera in the csv file.
Any idea, anyone?
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Just tried it on the road. I have the warning and the quiet bing-bing but cannot see the icon on the map. I have changed the bmp file to 24x24 pixels with 256 colours. Still it doesn't show the icon on the map.
Interesting reading how to customise your POI file: http://www8.garmin.com/products/poil..._poi_files.jsp
All seems fine but the icon still not showing on the map.
Interesting reading how to customise your POI file: http://www8.garmin.com/products/poil..._poi_files.jsp
All seems fine but the icon still not showing on the map.
Last edited by markchenguk; Apr 1, 2017 at 04:42 PM.
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My attempt is similar, no icon on the map.
I do get an alert (in what appears to be Chinese) and the bing-bong 0.2 miles away from the reported camera.
I will have another try tonight as I must have done something wrong.
I do get an alert (in what appears to be Chinese) and the bing-bong 0.2 miles away from the reported camera.
I will have another try tonight as I must have done something wrong.
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Mine is working expectedly except the 24x24 icons not shown in map. I have a red bar with the name of camera appears at top if my speed is higher than the limit. A generic icon later appears in the top left corner as I drive past the camera. I admit it will be better if it show exact location of the camera in the map. However, it does the trick and I am pleased with the result.
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I combined two csv files in mine, that may have been a mistake.
One for permanent and one for mobile. It reports a lot of camera's that are not there, but used to be or are temporary.
I just get the camera names in Chinese.
I can send the csv's when I get home.
One for permanent and one for mobile. It reports a lot of camera's that are not there, but used to be or are temporary.
I just get the camera names in Chinese.
I can send the csv's when I get home.
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All,
I have just clarified with Brad Wiseman (Garmin) regarding the missing icon. As soon as he heard I am using Mercedes Map Pilot, he said Mercedes had requested them to disallow any customised icon in the map.
Brad's exact words (2017-04-03):
"Preventing the addition of user-supplied icons to the map display was one of the things they [Mercedes] required and Garmin was asked to remove that capability. You can still use Custom POIs but you can't add icons to the map display."
I have just clarified with Brad Wiseman (Garmin) regarding the missing icon. As soon as he heard I am using Mercedes Map Pilot, he said Mercedes had requested them to disallow any customised icon in the map.
Brad's exact words (2017-04-03):
"Preventing the addition of user-supplied icons to the map display was one of the things they [Mercedes] required and Garmin was asked to remove that capability. You can still use Custom POIs but you can't add icons to the map display."
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I think I have got everything working as expected. According to Garmin, Mercedes doesn't allow their software to display icons so I have given up to display the icons.
