jtrosky wrote:Hmm, I noticed yesterday that even with the 2015Q2 HERE maps, *some* of my POIs have company logos - even with an empty branding.zip. Noticed the same thing with the TomTom maps - it also had some company emblems (different ones than the HERE maps) even with an empty branding.zip. This is with Primo 2.4. Not sure about iGo 8 - will have to try it.
So I guess the map makers are starting to embed company logos directly into the .poi files, which I never knew they did. Hopefully, they'll add more and more over time so that we don't need to mess with branding.zip at all!
You are right I noticed that too, it looks like now the new POI files include most of the Gas Stations and some other basic icons. BTW, you can have
both POI files, from TomTom
and HERE in your POI folder (you
cannot do the same with the maps files, if you want to use both maps you need a "Map Changer"). It looks like both POI files always have many different POI and the software will search through both of them.
I looked through many different Branding.zip and POI files. So far (not perfect but acceptable), for North America the best combination is using the latest POI files (HERE 2015 Q2 and TomTom 2014.03) and the Branding.zip that was included with the Primo 2.4 9.6.13.405512 package (size 3793 KB). BTW, if you are changing your Branding.zip file you
must first delete your SAVE folder or at least delete the Primo\save\profiles\xx\poi_visiblities.txt file, this way you don't lose all your settings. The "xx" is your specific profile #, if you haven't created different profiles then the "xx" will be "01".