[gps-talkusers] Re: over 15 million points of interest

["Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>]

Just want to make a comment that I am a qvc addict according to my family 
and quite regularly, they have gps products for sale and the guys get up 
there and shout with glee "Folks! There are one million, think of it one ... 
million points of interest from your favorite fast food restaurants, to 
hospitals!" And I just giggle and say We have more than that on our gps!
Isn't it lovely that we blind folks can for once, be way way ahead of the 
game rather than playing catch up?
Well? I have to go get that patch installed and get those 2 million new 
POIs.
Mary Ellen Earls
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 9:55 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] over 15 million points of interest


> One of the most significant aspects of any GPS program is the data 
> content. Sendero is constantly working to increase the data content as 
> evidenced by the new maps in version 4 as well as increased number of 
> points of interest.
> We have just added over 2 million points of interest on top of the 13 
> million points in the U.S. already included with your product. This is 10 
> times the number of points contained on a Trekker system or on commercial 
> GPS products. We have points in 50 categories, knowing that blind people 
> want location information for more than just travel categories like 
> restaurants and hotels.
> There are now 4 POI zip files on the Sendero download page including the 
> collective User zip file. Install these and see what is new in your area. 
> As we indicate, some may be duplicates since we are drawing from multiple 
> databases but my theory is that I would rather have a duplicate if it 
> means I will have unique points as well.
> In order to decide if you want a particular POI file in your folder or 
> not, you can learn which file a POI is from by pressing the detailed POI 
> command and then looking at the letters at the end of the POI details. 
> Individual user points will have a person's initials. Other POIs will have 
> the corresponding filename in the details.
> We were happy to greatly increase the data content for Europe in version 4 
> and we are working to increase the POI content even more. The Sendero 
> price list and shopping cart indicates which countries are currently 
> available. Other countries in Europe can be added as there is demand.
> As some famous person has most certainly said, "information is power."

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