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From: robert stigile <rstigile@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:09:03 -0700

Hello,
It would be a lot easier if you know the town name.

If you are visiting, and you don't know that the area is brokenup by towns, then it would be a lot easier if you knew the zipcode.

Regards,

Robert Stigile

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice  Dampman" <alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:10:23 -0400
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: e: Re: possible suggestion

How about using the town names or the names of the particular

area of the

city instead of a zip code number? Map quest is not always

available, say if

you are out and about somewhere already, and it means one more

step, having

to go on the internet, look up the zip, then back to the gps.

Meanwhile...

So if you could say I want Center Street in Jamaica Plain,

which

technically is part of Boston, but still goes by this other name

rather than

having to know what the zip code for Jamaica Plain is, it would

be a lot

easier to find what you are looking for.
Alice
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert stigile" <rstigile@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:39 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] e: Re: possible suggestion

Hello,
I am not in favor of removing the zip code part of looking up an

address.

In fact, I am in favor of being able to look up addresses by zip

code

only. You can do this with Map Quest, and I think it would be

great to do

this with the GPS as well.
One of the problems you have with not using a zip code to look

up an

address, is that if a program is looking for that street by the

cross

street, it could potentionally find the street you are looking

on clear

across the city.
Take for instance, the street I live on. It goes across the

entire San

Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles. This street goes across

approximately 40

miles of the Valley, but never comes out to a major street.
If you do not have a zip code, it could give you the wrong area

for where

you are wanting to be.
So, as I said, I hope that the zip code is not taken out.
Thanks,

Robert Stigile

----- Original Message -----
From: "GianniP46" <giannip46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:27:07 -0400
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: possible suggestion

yes, if possible, that would be very nice.  The whole zip code
thing can drive you crazy, especially that you have to start

over if you

mess up. It would be better if you could back up a prompt and

just

correct the zip code instead of doing the whole process over.

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: kevin chao
 To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:30 PM
 Subject: [gps-talkusers] possible suggestion

 This is a possible suggestion for the way the address lookup

works.  I am not

 sure how hard would it be to implement or if it is possible.

But, what I was

 thinking was when the GPS ask for the street name that the user

is only

 required to type in the core name and won't have to pick the

zip code and

 when the next field ask for the cross street or address number

then the

 system can match the address or the interesection which will

eliminate, or

 narrow the list of possible intersections or address that the

user will have

 to scroll through.  This will be more efficient compared to the

current

 method of having to know the zip code information and the exact

name of the

 street name.

 Kevin

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