Hi, this POI thing coupled with the 2nd transparent layer was very very useful last weekend when i was on a trip to trinco. POI was extremely helpful as i was able to find a fuel station just around Nilaveli when i thought i had to go to trinco town instead. Saved me a lot of time and that was crutial. Thanks ironbutcher_x for the POI file. Also I'm quite facinated with the amount of detail available on the map. It had almost all small roads that you would never expect to see on the map. Awesome stuff. Good work guys.
Couple of issues i noted on using the map, let me know if you have solved them already.
The POI thing just keeps on beeping when I'm on Galle road, gets a bit irritating. How do i stop that?
The voice directions are given too far in advance, like "Arriving at destination" comes up as far as 400m. Sometimes turn left and turn right comes up way in advance when there are couple of more roads to pass before you come to the actual road to turn. Can we control this. I have used garmin in europe and it is very precise when giving voice prompts. It gives an indication of the turn coming up as "turn left in 200m" and once you reach that junction, it again says "turn left". This kind of functionality is missing with this map.
Thanks for the excellent work so far.
hey dude, many thanks... as for your questions, am not sure what zip file you used and what target distances uve set but, for me, its set at 150m. ive also started posting "only" Gpi files for future posts of gps, as that simplifies the phone upload hell of a lot. no more messing with POI Loader, setting proximity alerts nothing, just copy the single "Poi.Gpi" over to memory card/garmin/POI/ and ur set.
the problem ur facing is u see the turn left ahead before u arrive at that bend is, coz, u havnt turned on "turn preview", but, sometimes, with some phones when u enable it, it does crash or lock the phone up, specifically the Nokia 5800 has this problem irrespective of firmware update. so, venture at ur own perile there.
as for the 'beeps', well, ur hearing the beeps coz proximity alerts are configured correctly, if u dont near any beep, then u should worry... lol.
and yes, it does get annoying at times, but, since i couldnt overlay the poi data on the map, i had to work around it, and i chose the proximity alert method, it serves 2 useful purposes, atleast for me, keeps the map clean and readable, and red pop up window only appears when ur near a marked POI. and ur concentrating on the road and not looking at the device while driving which is the worst u can do.
the file named town names has errors, i wont lie to u there, and am working on it as we speak but, i also mark new stuff, so the completion of town names is slow.
the reason why i incorporated the "town names" section is to make the map somewhat usable with no data as whats shown right now. but, as time went by, i kept on adding more and more poi in the form of hotels/petrol sheds etc. so, the town names section serves a useful purpose. also, not sure, if ur aware of this, but, say ur in a town or a place and u want to see whats closest to u, hotels/petrol sheds etc, just navigate into "custom poi" and u can either view everything in 1 page or by theme - myown1, petrol sheds, town names etc. u will see, respective poi closest to ur current gps location right at the top and progressively increasing with distance as u move down the list. so, u have a idea, ok, i have this and this ahead of me, now, the interesting thing bout this is, so, u see whats ahead, and u can select if u want to go to this place by clicking it.. and it will then, route u to that spot. thats the true potential behind the Custom POI section, which i didnt even realise until i started using that menu....
sorry, for not havin more petrol sheds in trinco, as when i went there, i marked about 100 petrol sheds etc, but all went puff due to a phone crash. and i was not that good with the garmin software back then. now, ive perfected it, as i had 3yrs of usage experience with it. when i do go that way, i do mark new poi and i always post it all on elakiri for u guys to use...
tissa has been completely mapped, as of, july 2010, every square inch of it.. ill be posting all that next week when i sort and verify the data...
btw, start using garmin mobile xt V 5.00.50 instead of V.5.00.60, as that has some problems. i too, went back to earlier version as of last night...
ogollo nathnam mata thawa mahansi wennath wenawane... meke kihipa denek kiyala thibba widiyata weda kala... wade goda... eheth podi podi prasnath thibba.. ewa man hada gattha... ogollanta dana ganna kiyannam ehema prasnayak dekak... meke kenek lassanata kiyala thibba garmin install karana hati, map ekak upload karana hati ehema... e widiyata keruwa... egollo dala thibba links walin program and maps download kala... eheth ewala thibba garmin program eke help files, voice files ehema na. ithin mama kale wenath file size wadi (50MB withara) garmin program ekak download kala... eke thibba voice and help folders mama copy kala elakiri eke thibba garmin program ekata... wade goda... eheth ara kiwwa wage map eke names/labels penune na... ekatath wisaduma kenek deela thibbane.. man eyage map ekath (kind of overlay) copy kala phone ekata... niyamatama weda. 
