[gps-talkusers] Re: I: question about college campuses

Hello Sarai et all,
Having one huge User.poi file can slow down your system so that is one reason why you would want to have separate ones. Probably one for each map. I.e. you typically are either at home in Minnesota, but you go to school in California. You could have both maps and one user.poi file in your maps directory which may be fine but remember if lookaround is on then it is always searching both California and Minnesota POIs all the time.
It would be better to have more than one map folder one for your home and another when you travel and therefor would have two user.poi files one in each map directory.
Now the mPower and PK are quite fast and you probably won't notice any slowdown whatsoever when you have both maps in one directory. Actually you could probably have more than a dozen before you notice anything at all. But just keep in mind it does have to check those other POI files to make sure you are not near any of them.
To create another user.poi file just rename the current one to something else like userhome.poi and a new user.poi file will get created when you add a new poi.
Note: you won't see any of the poi's in userhome.poi until you rename that back to user.poi. So that is an option but its a lot easier just to have a separate map directory with a different user.poi file in each directory.
So why would you want to do this you are asking, if you only have one map why rename the user.poi file to create a new one. The answer is simple. You are going to a campus and want all the POIs you create in one file without having any personal pois you previously created to be in this file. Then you can send this new user.poi file with all the "campus" pois from your school to Sendero and we can put them in the collective user poi files so others can download them (without having your personal pois like home, barb's house, mailbox etc in it.) 

Hope this clears this issue up.
Thanks
Charles LaPierre
CTO Sendero Group

At 05:53 AM 1/19/2007, you wrote:

What do you mean start a fresh User POI file? Why can't she use the one
she already has? How do you create a second user POI?

Sarai D. Bucciarelli

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It is also important to note that the primary part of the POI name is
separated from the details by the first comma. For example: Jones Hall.
northwest doors, science department

Note the comma before science department and the period after Jones
Hall. The period pauses the speech and the first comma separates the POI
announcement from the details you can get with chord P.

Be consistent in your naming scheme.

It is also helpful if you start a fresh User.poi file when you record
all the points.

Mike

>Hi,
>the easiest way to record points is to be standing at the spot you wish

>to record the point. it is a good idea to have the best fix you
>possibly can.  Check your gps status with a "G" command before
>recording the point.
>Record the point by pressing Control-R on a qt or space dot 3 on a BT
>keyboard.  Give it a name that is meaningful to you, perhaps the name
>of the building and press enter.
>the point of interest is done.  If you want to create a manual route
>Please see section 10 Creating a route without maps.
>If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
>Chris
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:27:24 -0500
>"Malaina VanderWal" <mintjulepprincess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I am attending Eastern Michigan University.  I would appreciate any
>> help and
>> suggestions offered on the best way to record points of interest or
any
>> other assistance with the best way to map Eastern Michigan or get
more of
>> the campus on the map.  I am in the city of Ypsilanti.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Malaina
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:12 PM
>> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: e: question about college campuses
>>
>>
>> > Malaina,
>> >
>> > We have addedas many as 100 points for a number of colleges and
>> > universities. Which one are you talking about?
>> >
>> > We can give you some guidelines for recording user points if they
>> > aren't
>> > already recorded for your campus. Those points will then go into
the
>> > collective database so others can benefit from them.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 07:27 AM 1/17/2007, you wrote:
>> >>After they are recorded can they be sent somewhere to be added to
>> >>the map?
>> >>So when new maps are available they will be on there?
>> >>
>> >>Malaina
>> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "robert stigile"
>> >><rstigile@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:38 AM
>> >>Subject: [gps-talkusers] e: question about college campuses
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>Hello,
>> >>>If you find parts of the campus or other streets that are not in
>> >>>the GPS,
>> >>>you will want to record them into the poi database.
>> >>>Hth,
>> >>>
>> >>>Robert Stigile
>> >>>e-mail: rstigile@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>From: "Malaina VanderWal" <mintjulepprincess@xxxxxxxxx
>> >>>>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>>>Date sent: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:03:18 -0500
>> >>>>Subject: [gps-talkusers] question about college campuses
>> >>>
>> >>>>Hi,  I was wonder if it is possible get get places on a college
>> >>>campus on the map in in furture map releases.  Some parts of my
>> >>>campus
>> >>>are on the map but a lot of it isn't or there are unnamed streets
around
>> >>>here too.  I hope my question is clear but if not I will try to
explain
>> >>>more.
>> >>>
>> >>>>Thanks,
>> >>>>Malaina
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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Sendero Group, LLC

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