Originally Posted by
badwhip
do you have a how to somewhere when making a custom branding file? how does the icons line up with the data on map? also why are there strips of poi instead of each one on it own? also what size are they? thanks for any help.
you can put any icon or a set of icons into "UPOI Editor" to make the POI strip. If you are using square icons then they are usable in a branding file. If the icons are round or other shape, then you have to convert those areas to a transparent background, then use iPAQ to convert it to BMP for iGo (It's a special format). the icons can be any size to start with, then UPOI editor will resize to 2 different sizes to use in your branding zip.
I don't know how the icons lined up with the map names. In the POI_Visibilities.txt file, my names were offset from the icon names, yet it displayed properly while using the software. For example:
Petrol_Station7-Eleven|eko|5000|0
Petrol_StationChevron|cenex|5000|0
Petrol_StationCostco|conoco|0|0
Petrol_StationUpi|united dairy farmers|0|0
Petrol_StationIrving|ingles gas express|0|0
Petrol_StationWilsons|wesco|0|0
Petrol_StationUltramar|turbo|0|0
You can definitely make poi icons individually instead of stripe, but for my branding I have over 700 icons which would be a nightmare branding file with a couple thousand files. And I probably only have 70% of the icons finished I think. The stripes are much more convenient as cateories so there would only be a few dozen files.
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