Where I find the community dBase with POI's/OV2 files for the GO mobile app?

ColWriter
ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
Apprentice Traveler
edited January 2019 in TomTom GO Navigation app for Android™
The maps for my TomTomGo Mobile have no POI's so I have to import them.
It seems there exists a community dBase with POI's.
But I can not find it. So where?

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  • dhn
    dhn Posts: 33,382
    Superuser
    In the old days there was one but try here for starters:

    https://www.gps-data-team.com/poi/

    https://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtompoi.php
  • ColWriter
    ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
    Apprentice Traveler
    Thanks for the links but these are most or commercial or outdated.

    I try to find OV2 files as normally used in the TomTom NON mobile navigation products and wonder why these files are not standard available for TomTom customers.

    Even asking this question to the TomTom Help Desk gives no answer.
    For me it seems TomTom is now slowly dying.

    MW
  • [Gelöschter Benutzer]
    [Gelöschter Benutzer] Posts: 5,321
    Supreme Navigator
    ColWriter wrote:
    I try to find OV2 files as normally used in the TomTom NON mobile navigation products and wonder why these files are not standard available for TomTom customers
    In the TomTom NON mobile navigation products there are no "normally used" OV2 files.
  • ColWriter
    ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
    Apprentice Traveler
    I am waiting for an answer of the TomTom Helpdesk on the OV2 files to use in My Places of the TomTomGo Mobile. I got already 1 answer. The Helpdesk is not a fast system.
  • tgold
    tgold Registered Users Posts: 2,192
    Revered Voyager
    ColWriter wrote:
    The maps for my TomTomGo Mobile have no POI's so I have to import them.
    When you go to Search do you not see these three tabs: Addresses, Points of Interest and Contacts. What more do you need or want than are under that second tab? If you find a more specialized collection of POIs in .ov2 file format, they can be imported via the MyDrive site.
  • ColWriter
    ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
    Apprentice Traveler
    I like to see TomTom POI's and specialized POI's on map while driving.
  • [Gelöschter Benutzer]
    [Gelöschter Benutzer] Posts: 5,321
    Supreme Navigator
    ColWriter wrote:
    I like to see TomTom POI's and specialized POI's on map while driving.
    You will not, neither TomTom POI's nor specialized POI's.
  • ColWriter
    ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
    Apprentice Traveler
    Why NOT ?
  • [Gelöschter Benutzer]
    [Gelöschter Benutzer] Posts: 5,321
    Supreme Navigator
    ... because TomTom did not provide it.

    TomTom GO Mobile app Gebruikershandleiding
  • ColWriter
    ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
    Apprentice Traveler
    At last I got an answer from the helpdesk.
    The same as yours - they do not provide it as on my TomTomGo25
    I got no answer on my question on reliable OV2 files to import via Drive.
    Thanks for your help

    MW
  • Richie
    Richie Registered Users Posts: 3
    Apprentice Traveler
    You can import POVs via TTmy drive online. I did thus ages ago they appear via search on the app.
  • ColWriter
    ColWriter Registered Users Posts: 7
    Apprentice Traveler
    The searching and import is not the problem.
    Indeed ages ago - they are nearly all outdated and inaccurate.
    I like to have OV2's from professionals like TomTom

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