[gps-talkusers] Re: Braille Note VS. Laptop Maps

Scott,

Although you can look at the file date for the POI files, this doesn't 
represent when they were last updated.

There is a distinction between points of interest and maps. These are 
completely separate databases licensed from separate companies. The data 
quality varies from place to place so it is difficult to generalize 
nationwide about the dates of the data.

The version 3 map data will be current through the first quarter of 2004 
and the POI data will range roughly from 2001 through 2003. Our ultimate 
goal is to link into an on-line database of POIs but such a thing won't 
happen for a while. We have added phone number and address data to the 
version 3 POIs. I notice that the PublicGIS.com website is no longer 
available. We'll keep working on a more dynamic POI solution.

Like Rich said, it would also be great to have a link from a POI to the 
business. I think particularly of linking to a restaurant's menu. Lots of 
medium to high-end restaurants have their menus on-line now and more and 
more people are getting data services on their cell phones.

Mike


At 06:34 PM 6/8/2004, you wrote:
>I have a comment and a question.  The comment is that I too have noticed
>that the commercial POI's seem a couple years old.  I also live in the SF
>Bay Area.
>
>The question may have previously been addressed, but is there an easy way
>to find out when your POI's were last updated?
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
>
>At 12:28 PM 6/8/04 -0700, you wrote:
> >Having my GPS system for the Braille Note only since the first of May, I
> >assumed the maps to be much more current than those on my 3 year old laptop
> >version.  The first weekend I had it I was going to go to a concert at the
> >Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.  So I suggested to my friend that I
> >map the route to get there.  To my surprise, the Palace of Fine Arts was not
> >in the POI file.  Just for the heck of it, I looked it up on my laptop and
> >there it was.  Interesting.
> >
> >Since then, I have found that, in general, the maps for my Braille Note seem
> >to be about 3 years out of date regarding restaurants, hotels, and
> >recreational areas in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Is that typical.  Is
> >there any way I can get them more current other than entering my own user
> >Poi's?
> >
> >I will say that the POI files on the Braille Note maps are much more
> >convenient than those on the laptop.  The Atlas maps for the laptop have the
> >POI files for California broken into separate area, restaurant, hotel, and
> >recreation files.  Therefore, one needs to know which file to look in.
> >
> >One interesting thought.  If the maps could contain a link to the website of
> >the POI, then we could dial up our ISP from our cell phone and connect to
> >the website through the link.  From the website we could then get the exact
> >address, phone number, latitude & longitude, or any other pertinent
> >information that may be on the website.
> >
> >Rich Irwin
> >rich.irwin@xxxxxxxxxxx


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