Software customization

Import custom Points of interest

Overview

Poi Convertor is used for conversion between text files and Sygic's user points of interest files(upi). Upis are then added to Sygic's maps and viewed and edited in Sygic's DRIVE navigation software.

What you need

The Poi Convertor is an ordinary Windows aplication, is distributed in both 32bit and 64bit versions. To create an upi file, you need a correctly formated text file and a correct icon.

File description

The file consists of separate line for every record. The line consists from three values: x coordinate, y coordinate and name. All values are separated by comma(','). The coordinates are in degrees and can be in different formats:

Blank lines and commentaries (lines that begin with ';' character) are ignored. Text files can be ascii and also unicode. To recognize unicode file, please put '; unicode' commentary as the first line in the file. A correct unicode text file can look like this:

; unicode
; these are radars in romania
33.05156,51.82539,Radar 4
33.08745,51.88797,Radar 3
34.96978,51.38587,Radar 17
34.11418,52.48693,Radar 8
35.13457,51.44,Radar 9
35.12737,53.82584,Radar 19
35.89047,52.95702,Radar 18
36.67875,51.95875,Radar 12
37.77769,52.859,Radar 1

The name of the text file is used as poi category name and one text file can have POIs only from one country(otherwise it will not work properly).

The icon must be a bitmap file with 8bit or 32bit color depth. You can find more information about image formats here.

Converting files

After you run the poi convertor, you have three possibilities: convert text file to upi, upi to unicode or upi to ascii text file.

If you choose to create upi, then you need to select the input text file, icon and output upi file, that will be created. The conversion from text file to upi can be used also from command line, the three parameters are text file, icon and upi. For exampe:

POI_Convertor.exe c:\radars.txt c:\radar_icon.bmp c:\radars.upi

After the upi is created, please copy the upi file into the map folder and icon into the Icons directory of DRIVE software. To enable the new category, turn it on in the 'Manage POI' menu of Sygic software.

If you are creating a text file, you need to select the input upi file and output text file. The convertor shows you the name of the icon from icons directory of DRIVE software.

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