[gps-talkusers] Re: HARD TO FIND PLACES

Thanks, Steve.  I hadn't thought of doing it that way, reckoning that there 
probably weren't that many useful POIS around that area.

Anyway, I am thankful to have picked up a couple of tips from you lot on this 
but, like you, I do look forward to the time when some of our mapping needs are 
addressed.  <Smile>

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Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven Bingham 
  To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:55 PM
  Subject: [gps-talkusers] HARD TO FIND PLACES 


  Carol 

  I have just seen your, and Richard's, emails. 

  The simplest way I have found to locate places that do not appear on the map 
- and there are hundreds of them, even quite large places - is to use a POI 
search. 

  Press f-chord set the search start and end distances to 80 and 100. miles. 
Choose Bus and Rail for the POI category and West for the search string. This 
should give you a list which will include Weston-super-Mare. It will also 
include some places names that do not seem to correspond with the search 
criteria. You can then set this point as your destination. 

  The boundary between the south and Wales & Midlands and the south and East 
England both seem a little odd. It seems to be a line that crosses the top of 
London and then somewhere west of Reading the line turns sharply left to the 
south and then again turns west. Wiltshire is split between the two maps, I 
think the whole of Avon is in the midlands and part of Somerset. This is 
probably to ensure that the whole of Wales can be included on one map - 
otherwise the extreme South West of Wales around Pembrook would be on the south 
map isolated from the rest of Wales. 

  Incidentally, can someone tell me why I need to pay a further £50 for the map 
of Eire. It is usually included in a map book of the British Isles. Given that 
the data appears to be as grotty for the whole of Ireland as it is for the UK 
the map should come as part of the standard package for UK residents. This is 
particularly off putting as I would only have to pay the same price for the map 
of the whole of the USA (including Canada).

  We certainly seem to be getting a second rate service.

  Steve

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