Importing SatNav destinations into Golf

[Jonboy_t]

I've just had a new company car delivered, a '66 plate Golf, and am trying to transfer the POI's that I had stored in my previous car (an Insignia). I guess the format of the file on the USB stick is different between Vauxhall and VW as the Golf isn't recognising that there are any files on the drive, but I can't find anything online that might allude to how to do it.

I've got 300-ish addresses on the USB that I will use at some point or other over the next year, so don't really want to have to type in each one - either as I need them or in advance. The Insignia just stored the destinations in it's POI 'bank' and I chose from the list based on whatever I'd named them.

Is this possible? If so, any advice on where I can find a resource that explains what format it needs to be in to make it work?

[xjay1337]

Jonboy_t said:

I've just had a new company car delivered, a '66 plate Golf, and am trying to transfer the POI's that I had stored in my previous car (an Insignia). I guess the format of the file on the USB stick is different between Vauxhall and VW as the Golf isn't recognising that there are any files on the drive, but I can't find anything online that might allude to how to do it.

I've got 300-ish addresses on the USB that I will use at some point or other over the next year, so don't really want to have to type in each one - either as I need them or in advance. The Insignia just stored the destinations in it's POI 'bank' and I chose from the list based on whatever I'd named them.

Is this possible? If so, any advice on where I can find a resource that explains what format it needs to be in to make it work?

Not really - no.

You could in theory go to a software engineer/developer who works with Sat-navs and understands the file structures between them.
But that's not really a practical solution.

[Jonboy_t]

That's a pain in the arse! The Vauxhall just accepted a certain file format and allowed you to just save the addresses on that file as a POI.

There's an option in the menu to "import POI's" or something, where would you import them from?!

[shtu]

Almost certainly doable, but would require time, effort and a lot of digging into the formats used and how to convert.

Reading,
https://www.gps-data-team.com/convert.php
https://www.astrakforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=649

You can 100% definitely import POIs in the right format into the VW systems via USB or SD, the common addition is speed cameras.