Tomtom Install Navcore Maps

In addition, TomTom's HOME software can be used to download maps, store them on your computer and transfer them to and from the GPS device as needed. On the TomTom One 1. Lemonfish Reviewed by lemonfish on 29th December 2011. TUTORIAL: Clean Install - How to install the latest map and navcore from scratch! This tutorial is for TomTom standalone devices only - not WinCE or PDA devices.

— Help us The dutch company manufactures a range of linux-based satellite navigation hardware including a car navigation software and several streetmaps. In addition they have ported their software to several PDAs and mobile phones equipped with bluetooth or built in. The navigation units do not normally record tracks. However all recent Tom Tom units run linux and allow other software to be installed and run, which extend the functionallity of the original firmware. Some useful tools (to record tracks, and others) are listed below. Screenshot from a TomTom GO 910 running Navit.

Successful attempts were made with software, see on their wiki. Though TomTom's mapping format is a closely guarded secret, both for copy protection and because if you knew how they stored the maps, they would be giving away a lot of their navigation secrets. As a result there is no software to allow OSM mapping to be converted to the format the TomTom app uses, and unlikely to be any unless TomTom themselves make it. • enables the display of raster maps (ECW format) for navigation. It can be used with downloaded OSM maps. • Another method to display OSM maps on TomTom could be porting to OpenTom. () Tracking Tools • offers several add-on applications for tomtom units including • NMEALogger dumps the nmea output from the receiver into a log file on the memory card or internal FLASH memory.

New logs can be automatically created when the unit is resumed. • Tripmaster is a more complex applet, with compass, GPS position and such. It can log directly to GPX or KML files. However, it is using the corrected (copyrighted) position from the tomtom software as default. Therefore it must be switched to 'Real' coordinates for collecting tracks for OSM. As a downside of Tripmaster, the TomTom moving map is moving noticably slower (sometimes even freezes for a few seconds) and the TomTom often crashes when selecting a new routing target.

The recommended configuration settings (reachable by pressing the ][ button at the bottom right) are: • Setup: Coordinates 'Real' - to get 'uncorrected' GPS coordinates, this is important • can produce GPX tracks. In early versions the produced GPX tracks were corrected by the TomTom's built-in Maps, and hence using them in OSM is not possible. Versions 6.4 and newer can make a GPX of the raw data from the GPS device. Note: The log interval should be something around 1 second and the Event Logger only logs your position every 10 seconds (?), this is enough to map straight streets but you'll not have enough data to map a turn or smaller details. See this page for more Information about installing. -- 2 June 2008 (UTC) • enables the display of raster maps (ECW format) for navigation.

While ttMaps can handle tiled maps, it's faster when using a single big image for each map set. yes Can work also without TomTom's navigation application no no no yes Open source (GPL) software no no no no (*): is an image compression format, within which geographical referencing and map projection information can be embedded, suitable for very large images. -- 18:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) OpenTom OpenTom was a center of 3rd party open-source development for the TomTom. There were two intentions of this project: • One was to write and document the writing of add ons for the normal TomTom software. • The other was to write a new software stack from scratch. Currently, there is no maps or navigation facilities.

Using OSM POI's with TomToms If you are using Linux, you can use to download OpenStreetMap data from Geofabrik, extract points of interest and convert them to OV2 format for use in TomTom satnavs.

This tutorial is for TomTom standalone devices only - not WinCE or PDA devices. In addition, if your device was made anytime from September 2010 onwards, (for eg. Big kahuna reef 2 play online. The GO 1000 series, GO LIVE 800 series, Start 20 series and all VIA models) it cannot be updated this way, as mentioned here: Before proceeding with this tutorial, if your device has a card slot and you normally use the card, insert it now. As long as the card is inserted, it won't affect the internal memory (if your device has internal memory). Follow these steps precisely and you will have updated software, as good as new! 1) VERY IMPORTANT: Connect your device to your computer via USB. Using Windows Explorer, open your TomTom drive and backup the complete contents of your TomTom.

2) Open your TomTom drive and delete the contents. 3) Install the latest version of TomTom Home from the TomTom website.