[gps-talkusers] Re: POI question

Yeah, I know how to do that, Don.  But I thought whoever posted the message 
said you could find a city with the find command, and the only way I know 
to find something with the find command is to put a starting and ending 
distance.  So, unless I'm missing something, that wouldn't solve the 
problem Clarence initially posted about, i.e. looking around a city when 
you don't know of an address to look up to get yourself virtually there.

Peggy <wishing there was a way of just virtually going to a city without 
needing an address>

At 09:59 PM 7/25/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Peggy,  All you'd need to do would be to set a new virtual position.
>
>If you have the maps for the Chicago area loaded, do an address lookup and 
>find an address in Chicago and then hit v to set that address as your virtual
>position.  You can then do poi's from there, provided that you have the 
>Illinois poi file loaded of course.
>
>Don
>
>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:45:18 -0700, Peggy Kern wrote:
>
>But you have to know the rough distance between whatever you have as your
>virtual position when you start out to the distance of the city you want to
>find, don't you?  For example, when I first turn on my gps, I would get the
>message that no receiver was detected, and to either turn it on or switch
>to virtual mode.  So I'd switch to virtual mode, probably here in
>Sacramento.  Now supposing I wanted to find the airport in Chicago, IL, and
>that I had the Illinois maps loaded.  When I do the space f and have to do
>the starting and ending distances, wouldn't I have to know how far it was
>from Sacramento to IL?  Or, by loading the IL maps, can I just do the space
>with f and not put in any numbers?  I'm confused about how your method of
>finding cities would work without inputting starting and ending
>distances.  <smile>
>
>Peggy
>
>At 02:22 PM 7/25/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> >Clarence,
> >With version 2 there is not a method, but with version 3 you can do =
> >exactly
> >what you want.  Try the following:
>
> >You must have the maps loaded for the location you want to find.
> >Use the detail find command and select the category city, enter the city
> >name.
> >When the city is found, set the city to the virtual position and switch =
> >to
> >virtual mode.
> >Now do the detail find command and use the category "Airport" this will =
> >find
> >all airports in the distance set in the find command.
>
> >When the airport you desire is found you can then set it to a user POI =
> >and
> >then use it as you desire.
> >    =20
>
> >Carl Simmons
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>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clarence Whaley
> >Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:24 AM
> >To: gps list
> >Subject: [gps-talkusers] POI question
>
> >Hypothetical question:
> >I am traveling to a city let's say Minneapolis.  I want to locate the =
> >name=20
> >and address of the airport ahead of time.  Is there a way to do this=20
> >without knowing some address to input first and look for the airport =
> >from=20
> >that point?  Thanks.  This is assuming I don't know any street name in=20
> >Minneapolis.
>
>
>
>
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