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Importing POI data from a USB drive
Connect a USB drive with POI data
stored on it (details see above) to the
USB port of the Infotainment system,
see chapter "USB port" 3 100.
To start the import: press the
CONFIG button, select Navigation
settings , select Import individual
POIs and then select Continue.
All POI data stored on the USB drive
is imported to the myPOIs memory of the Infotainment system.
After the import is finished, the
imported POIs are selectable as
destinations via the Enter
destination menu, see chapter
"Destination input" 3 115.
Creating and importing user defined
POIs
User defined points of interest need
to be defined via GPS coordinates
that can be taken, e.g., from a
topographical map.
The GPS coordinates and further
address data need to be entered into
text files, each file representing a POI category.Brief description: 1. Create the text files for the POI data.
2. Enter the desired address data into the text files.
3. Store the text files with your POI data on a USB drive.
4. Connect the USB drive to the USB
port of your vehicle's Infotainment system.
5. Download (import) the text files with your POI data to the
Infotainment system.
After the import, the addresses can
be selected as destinations for route
guidance.
Detailed descriptions see below.Creating the text files for POI data
You can assign your favourite
destination addresses to 20 different
POI categories, with each POI
category assigned a number, see
"POI categories and assigned
numbers" below.
For each POI category you need to create a separate text file.The text files can be created, e.g., by
using a simple text editor software.
Notice
The text editor must support the
UTF-8 character encoding for
Unicode.
Each text file name need to consist of the category name, a single
underscore, the category's number
and the file extension .poi.
Example file names: ■ Business_2.poi
■ Home & Living_8.poi
■ Culture_15.poi
Notice
The length of the text file names is
limited to 32 characters.
POI categories and assigned
numbers:
(1) Private , (2) Business , (3)
Restaurant , (4) Hotel , (5) Automotive ,
(6) Travel , (7) Cinema , (8) Home &
Living , (9) Shopping , (10) Craft, (11)
Sport , (12) Sight, (13) Health care ,
(14) Leisure , (15) Culture , (16)
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Nightlife, (17) Communication , (18)
News & broking , (19) Government
office , (20) General .Entering POI data into the text files
The image below shows a sample
text file named Home & Living_8.poi
with some sample POI data:
The POI data need to be entered into the text files in the following format:
Longitude coordinate, Latitude
coordinate, "Name of POI", "Any additional information", "Phone
number (optional)"
Example: 7.0350000, 50.6318040,
"Michaels Home", "Bonn - Hellweg 6", "02379234567" , see image above.
The GPS coordinates need to be
expressed in decimal degrees.
The maximum length of the POI name
is 60 characters. The same applies to the additional information string and
the phone number string.
The POI data of each destination
address need to be entered in a single
separate line, see image above.Storing the text files on a USB drive
The text files with POI data need to be
stored in a folder named myPOIs that
is located in the root directory of the
USB drive.
Example: F:\myPOIs\Home &
Living_8.poi , where F:\ is the root
directory of the USB drive.
After importing the individual POI
data to the Infotainment system (see
import description further below), the
Imported POIs menu will show a list
of selectable POI categories like the
following:Organizing the POI data in several
subfolders
Optionally you can organize the text
files in several, arbitrary named,
subfolders.
Examples: F:\myPOIs\AnnsPOIs or
F:\myPOIs\MyJourney , where F:\ is
the root directory of the USB drive.
After importing individual POI data
organized in that way to the
Infotainment system (see import
description further below), the
Imported POIs menu will show a list
of selectable submenus like the
following:
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After selecting a submenu, the
related list of imported POI categories
will be displayed.
Importing the POI data to the
Infotainment system
Connect the USB drive with your
individual POI data to the USB port of the Infotainment system, see chapter
"USB port" 3 100.
To start the import: press the
CONFIG button, select Navigation
settings , select Import individual
POIs and then select Continue.
All POI data stored on the USB drive
is imported to the myPOIs memory of the Infotainment system.After the import is finished, the
imported POIs are selectable as
destinations via the Enter
destination menu, see chapter
"Destination input" below.
Destination input Press the DEST / NAV button to open
a menu with various options for entering or selecting a destination.
■ Home: selection of the currently set
home address (if available).
Setting/changing the home
address, see "Setting the home
address" below.
After selecting the home address,
the Infotainment system
immediately calculates a route from
the current position to the home
address and then starts route
guidance.
■ Enter address : direct entry of a
destination address with country,
city, street and house number. See "Entering an address directly"
below.
■ Address book : selection of a
destination address stored in the
address book. See "Selecting an address from the address book"below.
See also "Storing an address in the
address book or myPOIs memory"
and "Editing or deleting a stored address" below.
■ Last destinations : selection from a
list of recently selected
destinations. See "Selecting a
previous destination" below.
■ myPOIs : selection of a destination
address stored in the myPOIs
memory. See "Selecting an
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address stored in the myPOIs
memory" below.
See also "Storing an address in the address book or myPOIs memory"
and "Editing or deleting a stored
address" below.
■ Points of Interest : selection of POIs
(addresses of, e.g., restaurants, petrol stations, hospitals etc.)
stored on the map SD card of the
Infotainment system. See
"Selecting a point of interest"
below.
■ Select from map : selection of a
destination from the map display
using the eight-way switch 3 78.
See "Selecting a destination from
the map" below.
■ Latitude / Longitude : selection of a
destination using geographic
coordinates. See "Selecting a
destination via geographic
coordinates" below.Selecting a petrol station as
destination after a
Fuel level low alert When the fuel level in the vehicle'stank is low, an alert message is
displayed.
To start a search for petrol stations
close to the vehicle's current position:
select Petrol stations .
After the search is finished, a list of all found petrol stations is displayed.
Below the list detailed information onthe currently marked petrol station is
displayed: the approximate direction
to the petrol station, the address, the
distance and the available fuel types
(in addition to Petrol and Diesel).
Abbreviations used for fuel types:
CNG (Compressed natural gas),
LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas).
Starting route guidance to a petrol
station
Select the desired petrol station.
The Navigation menu is displayed.
Select Start navigation to start route
guidance to the displayed address.
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Description on route guidance, see
chapter "Guidance" 3 129.
Entering an address directly Press the DEST / NAV button and
then select Enter address to open the
menu shown below.
To change/select the country: mark
the country input field (see image
above) and then press the
multifunction knob to open the
Countries menu.
Select the desired country.
Entering an address using the speller
function
Mark the City: input field and then
press the multifunction knob to
activate the speller function.Using the multifunction knob,
successively mark and accept the
letters for the desired city. During this process the system will automatically block letters that cannot occur next inthe city name.
The following symbols can be
selected in the bottom line:
⇧ : Lists with special letters are
displayed in the bottom line.
◀▶ : Previous/next letter is marked.
k : Delete last letter.
Aa : Upper, lower case.
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j : List function - once two letters
have been entered (in some cases
just one letter), all names available
with these letters are displayed. The
more letters are entered, the shorter
becomes the list.
OK : Complete entry or accept search
term.
By a long press on the BACK button
all letters entered are deleted at once from the input line.
Repeat the process for the remaining
input fields (entering a house number or junction is optional).After completing the address, select
OK .
The Navigation menu is displayed.
Starting route guidance
Select Start navigation to start route
guidance to the displayed address.
Description on route guidance, see
chapter "Guidance" 3 129.
Storing the address
Select Store if you want to store the
displayed address in the address
book or myPOIs memory.
The Store menu is displayed, see
"Storing an address in the address
book or myPOIs memory" below.
Selecting an address from the
address book
Press the DEST / NAV button and
then select Address book .
Select the desired address book
entry.
The Navigation menu is displayed.
Starting route guidance Select Start navigation to start route
guidance to the displayed address.
Description on route guidance, see
chapter "Guidance" 3 129.
Selecting a previous destination
Press the DEST / NAV button and
then select Last destinations to open
the menu shown below.
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A list of the most recently used
destination addresses is displayed.
Select the desired destination.
The Navigation menu is displayed.
Starting route guidance
Select Start navigation to start route
guidance to the displayed address.
Description on route guidance, see
chapter "Guidance" 3 129.
Storing the address
Select Store if you want to store the
displayed address in the address
book or myPOIs memory.
The Store menu is displayed, see
"Storing an address in the address
book or myPOIs memory" below.
Selecting an address stored inthe myPOIs memory
Press the DEST / NAV button and
then select myPOIs to open the menu
shown below.
Notice
The option Imported POIs is only
selectable if points of interest
(address) data were downloaded
from a USB drive, see "Exporting
and importing POI data" in section
"Usage" above.
Select the desired option. A menu
with various sorting options is
displayed.
The sorting options determine in
which order the addresses of the
individual/imported points of interest will be displayed later.
Select the desired sorting option.
A menu with the currently available
points of interest categories is
displayed.
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Select the desired category.
A menu with a list of all available
points of interest of the selected
category (e.g. Restaurant) is
displayed.
Notice
Points of interest which are far away
from the vehicle's current position
may not be displayed in the list.Below the list detailed information on the currently marked point of interestis displayed: the approximate
direction to the point of interest, the
address and the distance.
Starting route guidance to a point of
interest
Select the desired point of interest.
The Navigation menu is displayed.
Select Start navigation to start route
guidance to the displayed address.
Description on route guidance, see
chapter "Guidance" 3 129.
Selecting a point of interest
Press the DEST / NAV button and
then select Points of Interest .
A menu with various options for the
selection of points of interest (e.g.
restaurants, petrol stations, hospitals
etc.) is displayed.
Vicinity current position
Selection of points of interest close to
the vehicle's current position.
After selecting the option, a list of all
available points of interest categories
is displayed.
For example, you are looking for a
petrol station: