Please can anybody advise if there is an easy way of adding speed Cameras to the Columbus Sat Nav Unit.

For my Tom Tom's I subscribe to

Pocket GPS World - SatNavs | GPS | Speed Cameras

Who offer a really good speed camera download system covering a variety of

sat nav devices but I cant find the Columbus/ RNS510 on their list.

Many Thanks

Modorator

This has probably been put on her before, but here you go

Yes but it costs a few pennies the way I do it $40 USD via Paypal

I would guess on your PC you have software capable of Burning DVD's. If not there is some shareware called Image Burn you can download from The Official ImgBurn Website, personally I use Nero

1) Its important to ensure you get a copy of the SatNav DVD with the car when its delivered, its been reported that sometimes this is not the case.

2) Get hold of a stash of blank DVD's, I have used +R's with no issues

3) Buy a copy of Pimp My Nav

4) Download the POI file from Pocket GPS World, I have used the ASC (Michelin) format

5) Fire up Pimp My Nav, and import the Original Sat Nav disk

I do this every time, as when I try to use a previously loaded copy it appears weird

6) When I get to the Screen showing the data for VW, Seat And Skoda, I add a new Menu to the Skoda section

7) Within that I add New categories for each of the five speed camera types and use the import facility to load the Speed camera locations

8) I then move on to create an ISO Image, which takes a few minutes

9) You then need to modify the CD Image to give it a new key, and for that I use Ultra ISO

Now Here's the trickier part

10) Rename the Disk Image, I increase up a number each time CD_6317..8..9..etc

11) Copy the file cdrom.toc to your computer using drag and drop in the ULTRA ISO window, you only need do this once

12) Use NOTEPAD to modify the contents of this file

- Change the Volume to match what you have set in point 10

- Change the date in the file

The details below will appear as a single line in Notepad

-----------

Siemens VDO Automotive AG

SV I IS FA ARN

Content

Volume: CD_6326

Date: 22.7.2009

db: EU(2007Q1)

Area: Europe

Supplier: Navteq

Version: 505.20.716.2.84

Customer: 1627387624

Features: ZIP3kb - feaV10(VW) - pti(VW)

TPD: 2007080049

TMC: nt_q107_715

Phoneme: yes

DBAL: VW-no-dbal

Postalcode for UK,SP and PL

-------------------------

13) Refresh the Ultra ISO local disk window and copy the amended file back into the disk image

14) Save the image using the Save as, this will give you a new ISO file

15) Use imgburn/Nero or something similar to write it to a blank DVD

16) Put it in the car DVD drive and restart the system, it will then say it has a new nav disk to load

That's it

Hope that helps

Edited 23 July, 200916 yr by erniem

Dear Erniem,

Many thanks for the detailed and quick response. Just one last thing do I presume that in the event of my technical skills failing and my making a complete horlicks of this I can just revert to the originally supplied SatNav DVD and all should be well?

I am presuming that by importing and changing the contents of the original disk and then inserting a 'revised' disk this is unlikely to have any effect on reverting to the original version?

Many thanks

Modorator

Surely there is a market for someone just to do all those steps and post out cd's to people ??

Dear Erniem,

Many thanks for the detailed and quick response. Just one last thing do I presume that in the event of my technical skills failing and my making a complete horlicks of this I can just revert to the originally supplied SatNav DVD and all should be well?

I am presuming that by importing and changing the contents of the original disk and then inserting a 'revised' disk this is unlikely to have any effect on reverting to the original version?

Many thanks

Modorator

Never had to revert back tbh, but then i'm an IT person

But when the disk isn't right it won't load into the system

Surely there is a market for someone just to do all those steps and post out cd's to people ??

Would be nice but there's copyright to deal with and then the differing POI's that people want above and beyond Speed Cameras.

There's a wealth of POI's out there and you can only fit so much information onto a DVD.

Just do a search in Google and you will see

But this wont alert you like you can on a tomtom. It'll only display pics on the map screen.

This has probably been put on her before, but here you go

Yes but it costs a few pennies the way I do it $40 USD via Paypal

I would guess on your PC you have software capable of Burning DVD's. If not there is some shareware called Image Burn you can download from The Official ImgBurn Website, personally I use Nero

1) Its important to ensure you get a copy of the SatNav DVD with the car when its delivered, its been reported that sometimes this is not the case.

2) Get hold of a stash of blank DVD's, I have used +R's with no issues

3) Buy a copy of Pimp My Nav

4) Download the POI file from Pocket GPS World, I have used the ASC (Michelin) format

5) Fire up Pimp My Nav, and import the Original Sat Nav disk

I do this every time, as when I try to use a previously loaded copy it appears weird

6) When I get to the Screen showing the data for VW, Seat And Skoda, I add a new Menu to the Skoda section

7) Within that I add New categories for each of the five speed camera types and use the import facility to load the Speed camera locations

8) I then move on to create an ISO Image, which takes a few minutes

9) You then need to modify the CD Image to give it a new key, and for that I use Ultra ISO

Now Here's the trickier part

10) Rename the Disk Image, I increase up a number each time CD_6317..8..9..etc

11) Copy the file cdrom.toc to your computer using drag and drop in the ULTRA ISO window, you only need do this once

12) Use NOTEPAD to modify the contents of this file

- Change the Volume to match what you have set in point 10

- Change the date in the file

The details below will appear as a single line in Notepad

-----------

Siemens VDO Automotive AG

SV I IS FA ARN

Content

Volume: CD_6326

Date: 22.7.2009

db: EU(2007Q1)

Area: Europe

Supplier: Navteq

Version: 505.20.716.2.84

Customer: 1627387624

Features: ZIP3kb - feaV10(VW) - pti(VW)

TPD: 2007080049

TMC: nt_q107_715

Phoneme: yes

DBAL: VW-no-dbal

Postalcode for UK,SP and PL

-------------------------

13) Refresh the Ultra ISO local disk window and copy the amended file back into the disk image

14) Save the image using the Save as, this will give you a new ISO file

15) Use imgburn/Nero or something similar to write it to a blank DVD

16) Put it in the car DVD drive and restart the system, it will then say it has a new nav disk to load

That's it

Hope that helps

 

My maps were pre loaded onto the hdd do no dvd. Can I extract the maps from the unit onto a DVD please?

My maps were pre loaded onto the hdd do no dvd. Can I extract the maps from the unit onto a DVD please?

One can do this and alike using 3rd party tools (AFAIK it's otherwise not possible with standard setup - not sure about VCDS though):

http://www.motordiag.eu/produkt/mrmprofi

Without wanting to sound an old fart but the current Skoda satnav software does quite accurately tell you the speed limits of the roads you are on, also a vigilant drive should know the speeds of the roads they are driving, surely you don't need to know where speed cameras are if you are keeping within the speed limit!

The whole arguement against speed cameras really riles me! They are set at the speed limit of the road you are travelling on, its not like they are set lower to trap people! most, not all I admit, are placed where speeding is a problem or accident blind spots, If you get caught speeding by a speed camera its because you are braking the law, simple, speed limits are there for a reason.

If you want to argue that they could be placed in better suited places like near Schools then I agree and thats my only gripe with them!

I know the last post is quite old now but has anyone tried the update available from this site: http://www.audisatnav.co.uk/store/p16/Skoda_Columbus_map_update_V11_2015_Speedcam_version.html It looks pretty simple compared to some of the other solutions put forward but I wondered if it were too good to be true. If anyone has any experience with AudiSatnav.co.uk I would like to hear from you.

Expensive copied discs downloaded from somewhere on the internet, and they often don't work. Coincidentally, someone on another forum has just been banned for signing up and spamming his way to the required number of posts so he could post a link to that very site.

I'm thinking of buying a 3rd generation Superb. Can anyone tell me if their new sat navs have speed cameras built in? Seems daft if they don't, that's one of the main reasons for having a sat nav for me, just to keep me aware of where they are, and if a friend who drives a poxy Renault Clio 2011 has a sat nav with built in cameras warnings on his car, surely the new Superb will have?? 

If they have speed camera database built in then it'll soon be out of date. Also there's the possibility of legal action if someone gets caught by a camera which isn't in the database, so it's not likely to happen. Simple enough to add them yourself though.

I asked if speed camera were on my columbus nav system when I ordered my new superb on 28th dec 2016 and was told by the the sales person that they was. On my way out of the show room l saw a work tech and asked him he did not think that this was correct has they have never been on previous superbs only road speed limits.I would like the camera positions shown on the route maps and a audio warning to.Can anyone please help and advise.

Its simple enough to put them on so they show on the map, but you can't have an audible noise to warn of them approaching. Not without some other aftermarket hardware anyway.

I just download a speed camera app on my mobile, this gives a warning sound when approaching a camera, the phone just sits with a blank screen, with the app running in the background 

There's no need to go through that loooooong process in the second post above....... There is a VW website that creates the POI files you need and you then just copy the POI file to an SD card and import them onto the Columbus. There is a guide on how to use the VW site on here (The only slightly annoying thing is that the website is in German but I just fly through it all now as I update my speed camera POIs every month or so these days.

 

I use the Pocket GPS World speed camera database which is updated weekly and I can highly recommend it.

 

The thread with the guide on using the VW POI Loader website is this one...... http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/246805-guide-to-vw-poi-collections-loader-site/

 

I would say that the total time for me to go to the car and get the SD card out of the Columbus.... Go on to the PGPSW site and download the cameras..... Extract them on the PC.... Upload them to the VW POI site.... Create the POI file the Columbus needs.... Copy the created POI file to the SD card.... Go out to the car and import them onto the Columbus..... is around 10-15 minutes all in. ;)