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A POI, it's a Point Of Interest. In the context of navigation systems, a tourist or commercial place which is known only by its name, normally not by its address. By extension, it also includes restaurants, hotels, stations,… and radars!

The website POIplace allows its users to exchange their POIs. For free, ouf. But to be honest, it only concerns users of Tomtom Navigator on Pocket PC.

Once in the place, just register.
Then download CheckPoint, their software, and install it on your Pocket PC.
Then browse all categories and download interesting POIs, they are in ov2 files.

The categories are
- Hotels and restaurants,
- Leisures (cinema, sports, theatres,...),
- Services (banks, health, post,...),
- Stores,
- Transport (airports, carparks, stations gasoline,…)
and of course, all types of fixed radars.

The Belgians and Dutch can also download “Anti-radar” of RevoSoft, but then I advise them to read this explanation in Dutch.

In short, you're gonna find a lot of things and obviously, it's possible (even recommanded) to provide POIs that you know and that are not listed. Sharing is beautiful :)


For those who do not know : Tomtom Navigator is a software distributed by TomTom, that you install on a Pocket PC connected to a GPS antenna. The pocket PC then has the same capabilities than a TomTom Go.

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