Tom Tom Rider advance route planning on computer

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I'm still not having any joy with this. I'm attaching a picture of my Tom Tom HOME screen. Is it a lot different from anybody else's?

[Pooh(c)]

Gordy

Unless anyone else knows to the contrary you can only do the advanced planning on the rider itself and not via the PC.

[Fiasco]

pooh said:

Gordy

Unless anyone else knows to the contrary you can only do the advanced planning on the rider itself and not via the PC.

I heard this too, which is why I bought a Garmin Quest instead.

However a couple of people since have said that you can route plan on a PC.

Dave ;D

Ps Mapsource and the Quest rock IMHO, bet the Zumo is even better still.

[Pooh(c)]

Plagiarised from another site

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are you using Autoroute and then 3rd party software to convert it to a TomTom itinary file? And what about waypoints?



Yes, that's it exactly. create your route in Autoroute, save it in Autoroute format (*.awe file) Close Autoroute, open the file in the coversion utility and save as an *.itn file. You then copy the file to the itn folder in the root of your TomTom SD card, go to the Itinery planning function on your Tomtom and load the itinerary.

You can download the util from:

home.online.no/~solesen/tomtom.htm


As you will see, this util is not just for itn files, it converts between many different formats.

Just by way of a test the other day, i downoaded the *.gpx file from this post because it looks interesting:

www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143263

Then I converted it and opened it on the Tomtom Rider. Not only did it work fine, but the Tomtom already had the track in question marked on its map, which impressed me. I'm not saying it is perfect by any means, but I noticed when I was in the south of Spain a while ago that many of the dirt tracks I went down were showing up on the map.

Hope this helps,


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[ddfjr]

Sorry BUT your wrong Steve & Dave

You can plan a route via the Software with the TTR.
The picture that Gordy has put up is correct but his PC is NOT recognizing his TTR.
(Thats if he is connecting it Via USB?)
You have to have the TTR connected to your PC, plug in the supplied Cable and turn on the TTR.
Your TTR will then ask if you want it to communicate with your PC.
Press YES on the screen of the TTR
Once you have done this, you get the screen that Gordy has shown, on the right hand side of the picture (TTR itself) is the ON & OFF Button click it and the screen will fire up.
You can then Plan Routes, Change Favorites, Change Phone Numbers etc etc etc
I have done it loads of times as I use the TTR in the van for work, I can plan my route for the following day Via the PC / TTR connection and save it as a ROUTE.

Easy to do its just getting your PC to recognize the TTR

[Pooh(c)]

You're right Colin

I'm back in my hotel in sunny Bracknell.


I've managed to plug the tom tom into the laptop and as you say it can be easily done on the PC.

I still like the idea of doing it in Autoroute though. Seems a lot more user friendly.

now that photobucket is working again here's a couple of screen grabs





Here's a direct link to the file mentioned earlier

leforres.perso.cegetel.net/itnconv.zip

Gordon

Could one of your issues be that you're using a MAC

[ddfjr]

I can't take the credit for the information in my post
Its all down to Pop's as he posted / helped me get it sorted on the old site ;D

There is a link on the TTR website for people using a MAC and wanting to use there Computer for downloads, route planning etc etc.
I will see if I can find the link again.

Great little program Steve
I like to use MS Map Point to plan routes and this little program converted the files very quickly.
Thank You ;D

[Fiasco]

ddfjr said:

Sorry BUT your wrong Steve & Dave

I only said I heard it, didn't say I agreed with it

Dave ;D

[ddfjr]

fiasco said:

ddfjr said:

Sorry BUT your wrong Steve & Dave

I only said I heard it, didn't say I agreed with it

Dave ;D

Sorry Dave
Wording was a little wrong in my post, I should of said
"Sorry, Steve & Dave there is a way of doing it"............ ;D
My apologies for insinuating that you had no idea what you were talking about and I apologize unreservedly, grovel, grovel, grovel ;D ;D

[Deleted]

It's a mac thing


reply from Tom Tom today;

The function to use the device through your mac is not yet implemented (hence, there is not yet a component to download for it).
This is planned to be added in a later (free) update to TomTom HOME.

I might be able to do it via Autoroute, according to my offspring who told me a Mac 'was a good thing', because it's got and Intel processor it should run MS programmes, we'll see.

[Deleted]

There's more


They asked me to email/fax them the receipts of the original purchase + replacement, (blue tooth was u/s, so whole unit was replaced, meaning product code was changed and this can't be updated on their site for 6 months )

This duly done, at 3rd attempt due to them puting on a 'no reply' address on their email, I got this reply,

Thank you for your email. Due to extensive changes in our support systems, we are no longer monitoring this email box, and are therefore unable to respond to this message.

I thought the cloggies were supposed to be bright?

Anyway I managed to send the stuff via the TT help page.
They sure don't make it easy.

[ddfjr]

Fingers crossed you get it sorted Gordy

[Fiasco]

ddfjr said:

fiasco said:

I only said I heard it, didn't say I agreed with it

Dave ;D

Sorry Dave
Wording was a little wrong in my post, I should of said
"Sorry, Steve & Dave there is a way of doing it"............ ;D
My apologies for insinuating that you had no idea what you were talking about and I apologize unreservedly, grovel, grovel, grovel ;D ;D

You are wrong Colin, everyone knows I don't know what I am talking about

No offence taken mate, my reply was tongue in cheek

Dave

[ddfjr]

fiasco said:

ddfjr said:

Sorry Dave
Wording was a little wrong in my post, I should of said
"Sorry, Steve & Dave there is a way of doing it"............ ;D
My apologies for insinuating that you had no idea what you were talking about and I apologize unreservedly, grovel, grovel, grovel ;D ;D

You are wrong Colin, everyone knows I don't know what I am talking about

No offence taken mate, my reply was tongue in cheek

Dave

So was mine