Adding Speed Camera POI to your BMW Professional NAV DVD

** New ** BMW Professional DVD 2008-2

The new 2008-2 Professional DVD is now available and it would seem the layout of the DVD has changed somewhat over previous releases.

The size of the 2008-2 Professional DVD has also significantly increased (5.76 GB, 6 GB iso-File) and requires a Dual Layer DVD to copy it.

A brief run down of whats changed can be found here.

** Note ** Although the folder structure has changed, the files you need to modify are similar to before so it is still quite easy to modify this DVD successfully.

**** Apologies ****

I just wanted to say sorry to all of you who have emailed me over the past months and never received a reply from me.
I have always tried to respond to any feedback I get but the sheer quantity of emails that I have received and commitments in my work and home life have meant that I have just not been able to repond.

I promise to try and do better in the future!

Documented here are two methods for editing and producing the modified DVD. One creates an ISO image of the NAV DVD which you make the modifications to, before burning the modified ISO image to DVD and in the other you just copy the NAV DVD files to your hard disk, make the modifications and then use Nero to burn the files to DVD.

Use whichever method your feel comfortable with and works for you.

These instructions are based upon modifying a BMW European Professional 2006-01 DVD with UK speed camera information; however the principle is the same for earlier and later versions of the DVD as well as for non-European versions of the BMW Professional NAV DVD.

Making this possible this was a collective effort with many people involved, so a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this process.

THE USE OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK

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If you don't have them already then you'll need the locations of speed cameras within the UK. These can be obtained from www.pocketgpsworld.com . From here download the latest speed camera database. It costs around £2 a month or £19 a year. Click on Speed Cameras on the top menu and select 'other' in the drop down chart. You need to download one in asc format.

**** IMPORTANT ****

If you are running CIP v23 or later it appears that it doesn't like the Joliet file system, therefore make sure only ISO and UDF are ticked. All other steps are the same. Thanks to vcx over at e60.net for this tip.

He also reports that from CIP v23 onwards the NAV system now remembers if your POIs were enabled and so when you restart your car you don't have to go and re-enable POIs everytime.

** New ** Sample ENG.LSC files for 2006-01 and later versions can be found here:

2006-01 | 2006-02 | 2007-01 | 2007-02

Thanks to Tommy from e60.net who has confirmed that DVD RW- media works ok so no more wasted DVDs and keeping the DVD up to date no longer requires a new DVD everytime. A word of caution though comes from Bruce

"Some older nav units do not like DVD+RWs. The newer cars are fine but also note that DVD-RW are a lot slower that the DVD+R"

so it would be worth bearing this in mind.

Any questions please drop by the DIY: Do It Yourself forum over at e60.net or use the feedback form to drop me a note.

If you don't want to get your hands dirty so to speak and create your updated DVD manually, then I can recommend Pimp-My-Nav which supply a program you can buy which produces the modified DVD for you.
Pimp-My-Nav is a graphical tool for adding navigation Points of Interest (POI) to BMW, Mini, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce navigation map DVD's and CD's.