How to create a route or a POI file with Tyre?
  • Run Google Earth.
  • Run Tyre at the same time.
    Make sure the program is set to 'Active' (see the picture on the right).
Before creating placemarks in Google Earth, make sure you have the 'Roads' option checked (see the picture on the right). With this option checked, placemarks can be created with more accuracy.
Now select a point in Google Earth on the location that you want to use as a waypoint or as a point of interest.
With Google Earth, create a placemark ont that location.
In Google Earth you can create placemarks by using the 'pin'-button (see the picture on the right).

After creating a placemark, right click on that placemark. A popup menu will appear. In the menu choose 'Copy'.

Tyre will notice that a location has been copied to the clipboard and will retrieve the data from the clipboard and will add the location to your list of waypoints. That is all!
It is also possible to use the list of 'Places' from Google Earth. Right click on a place and choose 'Copy' in the menu.
If you use the list of 'Places', you can copy a complete list of waypoints in one time. This way you can put together a complete route by creating placemarks (waypoints) first and then copy then all in one time to Tyre.


It is important that you plan your routes in Google Earth with accuracy:
  • Use a resolution as high as possible.
  • Zoom in as far as you can before adding a new placemark in Google Earth.
  • Use the roads that are 'painted' by Google Earth to locate a placemark.
    The 'painted' roads do not always exactly cover the pictures of that roads. If that is the case, use the 'painted' roads. These are visible by checking the 'Roads' option (see above).
  • Your TomTom will have to use the 'shortest route' option to plan a route. (Click here to find out more.)
    You have to realise that when you add new placemarks. E.g.:

    If you want to ride from 'WayPoint 1' to 'WayPoint 3', TomTom normally will follow the 'Velsdijk' (marked red).

    If you want to stay on the 'Woolsdijk' you have to put an extra placemark (waypoint) between these two waypoints at the location of 'Waypoint 2'.

    Now your TomTom will lead you from 'WayPoint 1' to 'WayPoint 2' and from there to 'WayPoint 3' (the shortest route following your waypoints).
  • Placemarks are better not located right on crossroads. It is better to locate them right before of right after the crossroad.
  • If you locate a placemark on a highway, make sure you put it on the proper side of the highway! Otherwise you will be lead around until you have reached the waypoint on the other side of the highway!