create_ttpoi : create your own POI.DAT file for Tomtom Navigator

This software is about create a specific POI.DAT to replace original POI.DAT file of your Tomtom Navigator.

It can be usefull to repace original POIs with your own database, to free some unused POIs catagory, or whatever use you want...

However, it seems that the copyright don't let you reuse part of the original POIs. So, you can replace all categories by yours own personnal database. Refer to the Tomtom copyright and check your usage.

create_ttpoi use a description file, call poi.lst, that describe which categories must be include in the final POI.DAT.

Each line have a structure of : id=filename
where id is the category id, and filename the name of the file that store POIs.
ID is typically a number. Here is a list of all avalaible ID include in Tomtom.
For the file, you can use .OV2 files, .ASC files, or .POI files that comes from extract_ttpoi.

You can duplicate line with same ID, so the POIs from these files will be merge into the same category.

Such a file is auto generated from existing POI.DAT when using extract_ttpoi

Here is a sample part of such this file

	# Réparations automobiles
	7310=Réparations automobiles.ov2
	
	# Station-essence
	7311=Station-essence.asc

	# Restaurants
	7315=Restaurant.asc
	7315=MacDonald.ov2

	# Centre de location de véhicules
	7312=Centre de location de véhicules.poi

	perl create_ttpoi.pl -i <poi.lst filename> -w <poi.dat filename> [-v]

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create_ttpoi.pl   v1.1   18/09/2005

ChangeLog
v1.0 (10/09/2005) : Original version
v1.1 (18/09/2005) : Add support for merge files. Optimize Record 01 creation