The reason I posted to the Forum yesterday was that I am trying to gain access to and use my existing personal POI folders on my new GO Discover. Regrettably, I am not sure that gaining access to the Smartest Route Planner with the GO Discover will necessarily solve my problems, because although my personal folders of POIs appear under My Places POI Files on the GO 6200 they are not there on the GO Discover. Moreover, any additions I make in My Places Favourites on the GO 6200 subsequently appear on the GO Discover.
Interestingly, I can still open the Smartest Route Planner by clicking on the icon associated with my GO 6200. There does not appear to be any way to open the Smartest Route Planner, which I would like to do.
If I click on the GO Discover icon, it simply opens a splash screen telling me how to update my device the easy way.
When I open MyDrive Connect on my PC it shows the 3 devices I have referred to above. Now the GO Discover, would appear to have reduced this functionality still further, and I am searching for a way to use my library of POIs in their appropriate folders. The folders can then be imported into the Smartest Route Planner in MyDrive Connect on my PC, and subsequently exported to the device.
It is necessary to use third party software (I use POI Editor for TomTom) to build and manage the contents of POI folders on the GO 6200. I must admit I consider the software associated with the GO 6200, in terms of POI functionality at least, to be a serious retrograde step compared to the GO 1005. In the end, the forums provided lots of ideas but little practical help and I solved the problem for myself by sorting the list of POIs in each of my folders by name in ascending order (not suggested by any of the forums experts). I must admit that I struggled with this initially and could not make it work reliably, having many exchanges in the TomTom forums on how this might best be achieved. I found that by using the Smartest Route Planner in MyDrive Connect it was possible to manage both my personal POIs and the folders they were in on my PC, and then transfer them to my device. However, I wanted to continue using and managing my lists of personal POIs. Using the GO 6200 that functionality was lost. Using the GO 1005 it was possible to create these folders and manage my personal POIs on the device. Over the years I have built up a substantial library of personal POIs, which I keep in appropriately labelled folders.
I am a 15 year plus user of various TomTom devices. I will try to express myself better below, starting with a bit of history. It would seem my 2 questions were not sufficiently detailed for you to fully understand what I wanted to know. Regrettably, you have not really answered my questions. The simplest way to do that, as described in the link above, is just to make a picture of GPS unit showing the current coordinates.Thank you Willy 875 for your reply. Of course the clock in camera shall be synchronized to the GPS, or the time difference shall be noted. Well, pretty simple way to get your shooting positions without a built-in GPS is to have a separate GPS device in your pocket (like a dedicated GPS receiver or simply a smartphone with GPS logger activated) and later extract the shooting position by linking the timestamps in the GPS log and in the photo. Sure, having that is very convenient, but do you really need it so often and wouldn’t it be wiser to spend that extra cash on a better lens?īut then, what about all those photos with forgotten place of shooting?
When facing a decision of what new photographic camera you should buy, you may have to decide if it is worth to spend extra 100 EUR or more for a built-in GPS. Geotagging photos without built-in GPS Posted: Septem| Author: crcok | Filed under: GPS, Hardware, Lifehacks, Solutions | Leave a comment