[jimbethesda]

Originally Posted by drfluid

I'm working on what you described; merging into one giant big POI file for each higher category. I simply don't have enough time to finish it! Somebody pay me for this? I'm very cheap. My rate is about $200/hours jk.

However, I'm about 60% done. I had problems with reading the french characters for Canadian POI's, but that is now resolved. Reading them as ASCII didn't work as planned, so I had to read them as binary characters.

Anyway, I was successful in reproducing an URL file, which is reading the original URL file to my computer workspace (memory) and write a new file exactly same as the original. All I should do is reading multiple URL files onto my memory and write them as just one file. I need to work on sorting them per Lat/Long otherwise NAV wouldn't understand.


For the single POI's (traditional editting) is explained below;

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52951

Thanks. It's amazing BMW doesn't do this. This is a no-brainer enhancement. Why don't they? Would that slow down searching to an unacceptable level?

[drfluid]

Originally Posted by jimbethesda

Thanks. It's amazing BMW doesn't do this. This is a no-brainer enhancement. Why don't they? Would that slow down searching to an unacceptable level?

Actually, you raised a very good point.
It could slow down the searching process. A single idx/url pair could be as large as 100Mbytes.

But, iDrive being so slow regardless wouldn't make any difference.