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STEP 1: A quick intro to using Low Bridge POI
Step 2: Checklist
of software and equipment needed
Step 3: INSTALLING and choosing the Low Bridge POI Files
Step 4: Starting the tomtom and checking new files are
installed
Step 5: Using the tomtom to find the Low Bridges on your
routes
Step 6: Using the tomtom to avoid Low Bridges on your
route
Installing Other POI Transport Data
STEP 1: A quick intro to using Low Bridge POI
There are 6 easy steps to using this Landis Media
Ltd – Fleet and Low Bridge Data Download with your tomtom. If you get stuck
then refer to the TROUBLESHOOTING section on the download.
This first step introduces
you to using Low Bridge POI data and an overview of the system in use. Make
sure you read this step because the background given will help you decide which
POI files you will need later. We give two EXAMPLES
to demonstrate how in practice Low Bridge POI warnings work.
NOTE: The maps below are just for illustration
purposes and not taken from a tomtom unit. You can see similar style maps on
your tomtom device and this is demonstrated later.
Example 1: You have a 15ft 4inch cab height and your vehicle can’t
fit under the 14ft 7inch
Step By Step follow what
happens on the picture above:
You follow the route that
the tomtom has planned (shown by the BLUE arrows)
You are 2km from the
Bridge at Point 1 – you hear and see
the POI alert for the All_Low_Bridges_Data POI
This warning tells you that
a bridge is coming up and that you need to listen out carefully for further
warnings over the next 2 KM. You continue to drive
You are 1.5km from the
Bridge at Point 2 – you hear and see
15ft 4inch Low Bridge POI warning (for your cab height). You know your vehicle won’t
fit under the Bridge ahead and that you will need to choose a new route.
You choose an alternative
route using the tomtom (shown by the RED arrows) and divert off the old route at
Nut Hill roundabout. This takes you down
You rejoin the planned main
route (BLUE arrows) at Griggs Hill and continue your journey as planned.
Example 2: You are now in a truck
with a 13ft 2inch cab height. You can easily fit under the 14ft 7inch
Step By Step follow what
happens on the picture above:
You are 2km from the
Bridge at Point 1 – you hear and see
the POI alert for the All_Low_Bridges_Data POI
This warning tells you that
a bridge is coming up and that you need to listen out carefully for further
warnings over the next 2 KM. You continue to drive
You are now 1.5km from
the Bridge at Point 2 – this time you
don’t hear or see any warning, why not ? Your cab
height in this example is 13ft 2inches and so will fit easily under the 14ft
7inch railway bridge ahead. Since you don’t hear any warning you can keep
driving confidently following the planned route (Blue arrows)
You are now 100m from
the Bridge at Point 3 – you then
hear and see the Alert_Low_Bridge_Close POI warning. This tells you that you
are 100m away from the Bridge and should reduce speed
This warning is used as
a safety feature in case of fog, bad road conditions, corners or temporary
bridge height reductions (local council put scaffolding up)
You drive under the
bridge and continue on your planned route
USER TIP: These examples show that just 3 POI files contain all
the information needed to avoid every
Step 2: Checklist of software and equipment needed
Please make sure that
you have the following;
A PC laptop or desktop
running Windows XP
TomTom device (PDA or whichever
model you use) charged up
USB cable/cradle to
connect the tomtom device to the PC
The LANDIS MEDIA Ltd - Fleet
&
A note of your UNLOADED
cab height
The PDA version of the
tomtom doesn’t unfortunately at this time support the use of tomtom home. TomTom
HOME is a PC software all-in-one integrated installer that makes setting up
POIs much easier for the user. However its well proven
that PDA owners are more technically savvy and so we are sure this will make
little difference. We are sure you will enjoy the challenge of getting it all
to work correctly.
USER NOTE: One fact though still –
please make sure that your PDA software is as up to date as possible and
running the VERY LATEST version of
the tomtom software application. Also please make sure that you do a BACKUP before you start. Installing
files can result in problems and so we cannot be held responsible for damage
caused through faulty installations. The screenshots below are taken from Version
6 of the tomtom software, if your appear different then
allow for this and work around locating the right options.
Step 3: INSTALLING and
choosing the Low Bridge
Connect your tomtom
device to your PC in the normal way then turn it on.
Make sure that you have
UNZIPPED the
If you choose to unzip
to another location you will have to locate where you placed the contents
yourself when prompted later on. For the purposes of the manual we will assume
you have unzipped and extracted the folder called
Now locate the TARGET directory on your tomtom, this
is where you will install the files to.
In most cases this is inside the “tomtom” application section on your
PDA and then inside the map folder. The word map is most likely to appear in
the title (not always). Locating this folder is important but unfortunately
cannot be more precise because tomtom vary it depending on make, model,
software and country. Here are some examples of the folders names;
For example it could be
(x: below is your PDA device and tomtom folder)
x:\Great_britain_map\
x:\Great_britain_plus-map\
X:\ GB_plus_major_roads_of_WE\
x:\Western_Europe-map\
X:\Western_and_Central_Europe\
X:\United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland\
x:\other_european_country
\
x:\other_european_country-map\
x:\Great_Britain
Navigator Map\
Identify the one which
you think is yours or the most likely candidate and then have a look inside. This
is where you can be certain you have the right folder. There may be other POI that
you have installed in which case you know this is the right location. If you
haven’t installed any POI before then look for other significant files that
indicate it’s the right place;
CLINE.DAT
POI.DAT
MAPINFO.DAT
If any of these (or all
of them) are in the folder then it’s the correct
location. Congratulations you have found the TARGET
Now we have located the
place the POI files will be copied to – we need to locate the place they come
from the SOURCE
LOCATE THE
This is much simpler
than it seems because we know the structure that was on the download. You need
to identify the Unzipped location of the file you
saved, our example was;
C:\Fleet &
Inside this folder you
will find 3 folders – the one you need is called Low_Bridge_Data and looks like
this;
If the screen VIEW that
you have is different to that above and you have large ICONS or some pictures
in folders (like the sample below) then you need to correct the view option you
use in explorer
or this 
All you do is select the
VIEW menu and click on DETAILS – this allows you a much better
view especially when we will be moving lots of files around later on. You can
see how to select this below, and using this view you are less likely to make
mistakes.
So now you have found
the right folder (and the right view of it) – you need to look into the Low_Bridges_Data
folder where the POI are located in their own sub
folders;
As explained in Step 1: you will only have to install 3
SPECIAL NOTE: Its important to grasp the
difference between a POI and a FILE. A POI is a set of
data that on the PDA allows you to avoid or go to places of interest. IN PDA
terms and PC terms its made up of either 2 or 3 files
depending on the POI type. Our LOW
BRIDGE POI are made up from 3 files – these are a
.BMP files (ICON) a .OV2 file (the actual DATA) and finally a new and special
.OGG file (that’s the speech or sound file warning you). The later Transport_Data POIs are only made up from two files a .BMP
and a .OV2 they don’t have or need th
sound file.
The first two POIs you will install are always the same whatever the
vehicle and are right at the bottom of the long list of heights shown above. at the end of the long list of
These will come from the
All_ft and Low_bridge_alert
folders as shown;
Here we can see the two
SOURCE directories that we need – and only the third needs to be located.
The third and final POI needs to be chosen from the list of 85
different
You need just ONE of these,
they are sorted out neatly so you can locate them into these different height directories.
So if for instance you have a 15ft 6inch cab height you would look for this in
the 15ft-down directory.
SPECIAL NOTE: You only need your cab height as well as the Alert
and All
Low Bridge POI – together these contain every
So now we will select
the actual files that we need to copy from the SOURCE directory (these files as discussed above make up a POI
.BMP. .OV2 and .OGG) – into the TARGET
directory on the PDA..
EXAMPLE
OF COPYING POI (FILES) FROM SOURCE OVER TO TARGET
We will run through an example here
– you just repeat this for the other POI. The only one you need to take care on
is the Cab Height because that folder has several sets of height files and you need
to select the correct ones.
So here is a simple example to
start with ;
Inside the all_ft folder we have selected
the 3 files we need; the .OV2 , .BMP and .OGG files – we have right clicked to get the
menu option up and selected COPY.
We now go to the TARGET folder on the PDA device, right
click and select PASTE
As we can see above this PASTES the
COPIED files into the TARGET directory. There are other ways to copy, file
dragging etc – but for avoiding mistakes and accuracy we suggest using this
method. These files for the POI are now pasted into the correct folder on the
PDA.
This means that just 1 of the 3 POI has now been installed. As mentioned before the .BMP file is
the ICON picture, the .OV2 is the data and the .OGG is the voice file.