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Satellite Navigation, Tom Tom Custom POI's

It seams that the custom sounds, although used by tomtom, and although hidden by tomtom, you can use them, but this is where you may get problems.

If you place the files tesco.ovr, tesco.bmp into your map folder, when you set up a warning for it, your asked to use a sound file from the default list of beep and siren sounds. You wont be asked what image to use, as you have added a a matching .bmp (Matching means you have the name the same) for example tesco.ovr would have a matching tesco.bmp

Well that works just right, but now we have a problem with the sound file, in this case the tesco.ogg . Where to put it ? tomtom will tell you that any custom sound files must be put inside the "sounds" folder others will tell you it must go in the map folder, and although iether will work, you may experence problems.

If you have a tesco.ovr and a tesco.bmp then the tesco.bmp is automatically assosiated with the tesco.ovr and therfore, if you place the tesco.ogg inside the map folder, you would expect the tesco.ogg to be automatically assisiated too ?

Well yes and no, the tomtom may say "Is this the file you wish to use" > "Nothing shown" answer YES and it sets it up using the correct matching .ogg Answer No and it may even crash the tomtom :) (720 does)

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