I'm not sure if this was me being super fussy or making a problem out of nothing but I recently just installed Speed Cameras POI's as per following this Guide and using PocketGPS World and POI Base, I was a bit disappointed with the icons for the cameras on the Cars MMI display, they looked a bit naff and didn't really fit the smooth graphics of the maps and other POI's that the car displays normally, like hospitals and cinemas etc.
I'm not sure If this is quite a common little tweak people do when adding speed cameras but I haven't come across any posts with this little tweak so i'll carry on explaining.
When you add the speed cameras as per the guide I linked above, and after you added the Bitmap icons that come with the speed camera data you download from PocketGPS, you end up with this as the finished result on your MMI,
And it all works perfectly fine, and again I dunno if this is me being super fussy, but the icons including the others (Redlight, Fixed cameras) just don't fit well within the look of the cars map graphics, so after a bit of messing about and being a tart, I ended up getting my icons to look a bit nicer and something like this:
As you can see it's such a small change but I think it makes it feel more OEM and like the car came pre installed with the camera locations from the factory, myself personally wasn't very keen on the fixed camera locations icon being white as I felt it blended in with other POI's on the cars map, and didn't stand out too well, So I used this yellow icon that I found from this old forum post by Taurus https://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/speed-camera-poi.248853/ and set that as my fixed camera location icon, and edited it a little by adding the letter A into the icon that shows where average speed cameras are, and also so I can differentiate them from fixed cameras, to end up with a result like this:
It looks much better in person just my phone's camera isn't amazing at taking pictures of my cars screen.
If anyone is interested in doing this little tweak, as minor as it is, I've made a small guide below.
If you already have cameras installed in your car, you will have to re add the categories to POI base in order for the Icons to update.
So when you get this screen on POI base, when adding the camera categories instead of adding the Icon that comes with the PocketGPS download, Add one of the ones i've attached, but instead of adding it to the 22x22 option, add it to the 44x44 first like this:
And then after add it to the 22x22 option, so you should end up like this:
With the same file listed in both options, you have to do this part otherwise the nicer looking Icons that a slightly larger end up getting scaled down to 22x22 by the car and thus reducing their resolution to a couple of yellow and black blurry pixels on your cars map.
You can double check it has both options selected, if after adding the categories you click the edit button, and it should look something like this:
If it looks like this, and also for all the other categories like Specs cameras, you're all good to go, transfer it onto the memory stick and then transfer it into the car as per the video linked at the top shows, one thing to note though if you have camera POI's already installed in your car make sure you select the option 'Delete MyAudi special Destinations' in the navigation settings menu, before transfering your new better icon camera POI's so its in theory a clean transfer.
I'll attach some other icons also, including a white speed camera logo I found if some people still prefer having that for their fixed speed cameras, along with its yellow counterpart, although this yellow icon isn't as nice looking as the one in the pictures.
I also did a similar thing for the traffic light cameras to end up with something like this:
As the Redlight camera icon that came with the PocketGPS download was also a bit small, Still not 100% decided on it yet.
Anyway let me know what you think.
Mitch
I'm not sure If this is quite a common little tweak people do when adding speed cameras but I haven't come across any posts with this little tweak so i'll carry on explaining.
When you add the speed cameras as per the guide I linked above, and after you added the Bitmap icons that come with the speed camera data you download from PocketGPS, you end up with this as the finished result on your MMI,
And it all works perfectly fine, and again I dunno if this is me being super fussy, but the icons including the others (Redlight, Fixed cameras) just don't fit well within the look of the cars map graphics, so after a bit of messing about and being a tart, I ended up getting my icons to look a bit nicer and something like this:
As you can see it's such a small change but I think it makes it feel more OEM and like the car came pre installed with the camera locations from the factory, myself personally wasn't very keen on the fixed camera locations icon being white as I felt it blended in with other POI's on the cars map, and didn't stand out too well, So I used this yellow icon that I found from this old forum post by Taurus https://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/speed-camera-poi.248853/ and set that as my fixed camera location icon, and edited it a little by adding the letter A into the icon that shows where average speed cameras are, and also so I can differentiate them from fixed cameras, to end up with a result like this:
If anyone is interested in doing this little tweak, as minor as it is, I've made a small guide below.
If you already have cameras installed in your car, you will have to re add the categories to POI base in order for the Icons to update.
So when you get this screen on POI base, when adding the camera categories instead of adding the Icon that comes with the PocketGPS download, Add one of the ones i've attached, but instead of adding it to the 22x22 option, add it to the 44x44 first like this:
And then after add it to the 22x22 option, so you should end up like this:
With the same file listed in both options, you have to do this part otherwise the nicer looking Icons that a slightly larger end up getting scaled down to 22x22 by the car and thus reducing their resolution to a couple of yellow and black blurry pixels on your cars map.
You can double check it has both options selected, if after adding the categories you click the edit button, and it should look something like this:
If it looks like this, and also for all the other categories like Specs cameras, you're all good to go, transfer it onto the memory stick and then transfer it into the car as per the video linked at the top shows, one thing to note though if you have camera POI's already installed in your car make sure you select the option 'Delete MyAudi special Destinations' in the navigation settings menu, before transfering your new better icon camera POI's so its in theory a clean transfer.
I'll attach some other icons also, including a white speed camera logo I found if some people still prefer having that for their fixed speed cameras, along with its yellow counterpart, although this yellow icon isn't as nice looking as the one in the pictures.
I also did a similar thing for the traffic light cameras to end up with something like this:
As the Redlight camera icon that came with the PocketGPS download was also a bit small, Still not 100% decided on it yet.
Anyway let me know what you think.
Mitch
