[gps-talkusers] Few tips I learned when travelling to the Guide Dogs Reunion in San Fancisco

Hello List,
I just wanted to share a couple tricks I learned when I was travelling on the Caltrain this past weekend on my way up to the Guide Dogs reunion. Sendero demonstrated GPS on the bus trip from San Francisco to San Rafael.
Tip #1 when you are in a new city and want to find fun things to see or do. If you search out a few miles for "Tourist Attractions" you will get a list of really cool things to do.
Tip #2 when you have lookaround turned on and set to "All" this is great if you really don't care what you find, you are just exploring, but if you are interested in a particular thing, then you should set your lookaround POI category to something specific like "Restaurant" or "Shop"
Tip #3 when looking for a two digit number in a POI search eg. "Peir 39" but you want to find anything that has the # 39 in it, but if you search for 39 it will only search for those POIs starting with 39 because the software when you search for a 1 or 2 character search string it only searches for those POIs who's names begin with those characters. So to find "39" anywhere in the POI name you need to add a space to your search string i.e. " 39" without quotes (i.e. <space>39) 
Now for a one digit number you would add spaces before and after that number.

Hope some of those can be of use to you all
Take care,


Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC

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