[gps-talkusers] Re: POI question

Ah!  Mike, thanks.  Finally the answer to my question.  <smile>  You must 
be creative and enter some street name to have a starting 
point.  Right?  No way to do a POI search without first virtually creating 
a position.  Right?  Thanks.


At 01:15 PM 7/26/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>Mary Ellen,
>
>You would probably have to have both states loaded to calculate a route
>from Ohio to Kentucky. There may be some overlap from one state into the
>other and you could try without having both maps loaded.
>
>You can certainly pull up POIs without maps loaded, like the airport.
>
>Because the names of the POIs are truncated, you have to be creative about
>pulling them up sometimes.
>
>In the case of finding Ohare, I first set my virtual position to Chicago
>IL. I tried both 1st street and Main street without luck. These exist in
>most cities. I chose Michigan Ave and set my virtual position there.
>
>Next, I did a Chord F to find all airports within 10 miles. I had to expand
>to 20 miles before I found Ohare. It actually shows up twice as Chicago 
>Ohare I
>
>There is no apostrophy in the name as you might expect.
>
>Mike
>
>
>At 09:32 PM 7/25/2004, you wrote:
> >Mike this is totally weird but I did a search for airports in Chicago and
> >there was no O'hare. There _was_ Midway but no O'Hare!
> >I thought that more than a little strange.
> >Here is a challenge!
> >Cincinnati's airport is in Northern Kentucky. How would we do a search for
> >an airport which is not even in the state that it is supposed to fly into?
> >When I take public transport to the airport a week from Tuesday how would I
> >track that route? Would I have to load bothOhio and Kentucky?
> >
> >Mary Ellen Earls
> >Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:17 PM
> >Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: POI question
> >
> >
> > > Clarence,
> > >
> > > There is an airport category in the POI data. You should be able to 
> either
> > > guess the distance and ask for an Airport search or set your virtual to
> > > Mineapolis and search for nearby airports.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > > At 10:23 AM 7/25/2004, you wrote:
> > > >Hypothetical question:
> > > >I am traveling to a city let's say Minneapolis.  I want to locate the
> >name
> > > >and address of the airport ahead of time.  Is there a way to do this
> > > >without knowing some address to input first and look for the airport 
> from
> > > >that point?  Thanks.  This is assuming I don't know any street name in
> > > >Minneapolis.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Clarence Whaley
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>
>Michael G. May
>
>CEO Sendero Group
>
>Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
>Now distributing BrailleNote, VoiceNote, Miniguide, The Tissot Silen-T
>tactile watch and the ID Mate, bar code reader
>
>MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.SenderoGroup.com
>
>(530) 757-6800, Fax (530) 757-6830, Mobile (530) 304-0007
>Sendero Group, LLC
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>
>Latitude, 38 33 9.239 North
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Clarence Whaley
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