Nav Companion in their RNS510

[p3asa]

Anyone using the Nav Companion in their RNS510?
http://www.my-gti.com/714/volkswagen-labs-navcompanion-for-rns-510
In theory it looks a good idea especially if you know where you are going in advance, say if you were heading off on a driving holiday it can save you the hassle of entering the details in the unit.

What it might come in really handy for is if you could download say POI that others have uploaded. That way you could have a whole SD card crammed full of different POI. As I'm sure the POI will be limited as to how many you can store on the RNS510.

Free WiFi spots would do me for starters.

[mortygt140]

Steve if you want and you know what POI you want I can stick them on a Map disc and send it with your unit before the courier picks it?

Darren

[p3asa]

Hi Darren,

I'm not sure what's available.
Shell garages and fast food were already on the disk you supplied which were really handy. Wifi spots or football stadiums sound good.

[mortygt140]

Not a problem I've already got football stadiums in my poi collection so can stick that on, My current disc that ive just done has free wifi hotspots on so can put that on aswell...

If you put too many on it does start slowing the RNS510 down but you would have to have alot of poi.

Darren

[p3asa]

Cheers Darren that's great.
I suppose I was spoiled with the TomTom where I could just download whatever POI I wanted and upload it to the unit again with no hassle and basically hardly any user intervention.

Stevie.

[ErikGTI]

Yeah I use that...
Works just great !!!!

You download or take a picture (say e.g. of your home/house) up to 2 MB.
You load that picture in a new folder GPS Locations made on a SD Card.

You start the nav program and type in a  postal code and attach the picture to it....
When you press new adress in the car you choose sd card and all the coloured pics appear..press start and away you go...

I advise you to add a full address instead of a postal code in case you do not know the exact housenumbers.....

Very cool feature 

[p3asa]

Cheers Erik sounds like a good feature.
What size of pictures are displayed?
Have you come across anywhere to download a list of stuff already in that format?

Cheers.

[ErikGTI]

The pics on your nav screen are the size of ...uhhh...a winegum....

However if you have choosen one winegum....the pic becomes more then half the screen size and very sharp and pro...that following screen allows you to choose "info' (all the extra the info you have given it...say opening hours phone numbers...detailed adress..names of persons etc.)....and/or START...
 
I just download pics from the web of say my hotels, restaurants, clients, and even favorite car parks.......I even took a photo of my house...very cool if you press HOME..........I am amazed I am not hearing anybody else about this feature...
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The cd card can ofcourse still be filled with MP3 music....your system will read both....

again the link...I have posted it here before as well as a translation...

http://www.volkswagen-nav-companion.de/results.jsf

[ErikGTI]

I am no whizz but it tells the story... 

[p3asa]

Cheers Erik, much appreciated for doing that.

Looks a great feature, can't understand why its not been documented more.

Can't wait to try it.