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I recently got a new TomTom One Europe and wanted to add a custom icon to my POI categories, so here you go...
1. go to poieditor.com and create a POI (don't add your home address or you will have an icon sat there) and don't worry where it is, you can delete it later in the device.
2. save the file as 'something.ov2' I used 'Holland.ov2', you can call it 'monkeys.ov2' if you like. (save it in a folder or somewhere where you won't loose it.)
3. now create an icon for your POI, it should be 22x22 pixels, 71 dpi, 24bit (i used fireworks, although the Gimp is a good free alternative), save it into the same folder as your 'ov2 file
3. now the codey bit...
edit the '.toc' file enclosed in the zip file i supplied below,open it in Notepad or similar text editor it's pretty obvious what you need to change for your own purposes, heres a lil' summary
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><TomTomToc version='1.0'>
<Poi>
<Id>Holland</Id>
<Version>480</Version>
<Name language=''>MULE: Holland (2007)</Name>
<Description language='' />
<Target>tomtom,pocketpc,palm,mobile_S60v3</Target>
<Location>file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mrmule/My%20Documents/TomTom/HOME/Downloads/Holland.cab</Location>
<Size>4096</Size>
</Poi>
</TomTomToc>
so we change the following
4.
<Id>Holland</Id> - This is the POI Category Name
5. <Name language=''>MULE: Holland (2007)</Name> - This is the name shown in TomTom Home browser
6. <Location>file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mrmule/My%20Documents/TomTom/HOME/Downloads/Holland.cab</Location> - Change - This is the location and name of the CAB file you will make
7. <Size>4096</Size> - CAB file size in bytes (right click>properties),
8. ok you have all the bits, now you need to package them into a '.cab' file.
download this free CAB packager and add the two files 'holland.ov2' and 'holland.bmp' to a CAB file called 'Holland.cab
9. now finally edit the '.toc' file <Size> tag with the byte size of your CAB file
10. drop into your TomTom downloads folder and in the 'Manage your TomTom' you can 'Install to TomTom', your POI will be visible in the list.
11. start up you TomTom and browse to
change preferences
manage POIs
Edit POIs
Add POI
choose your new Category and work away!
Posted by mrmule at August 12, 2007 12:39 PM
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