[gps-talkusers] Re: Sendero Releases New Maps and POIs

Hi,

Sendero GPS for the BrailleNote version 5 and the Sendero SDK 3.0 use
2008 maps for USA.
The files Charles is talking about are Points of Interest that are
imbedded in the maps themselves.
So Charles extracted the Points of Interest from the 2008 maps.
This gives us more Points of interest to play with and we may have
multiple Points with the same name.  They are also optional, if you
want to use them you may.

If you come across a POI you don't want, with version 5.0 you can
delete it.

Hope this helps.

Chris
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:15:01 -0500, "Wendy Alling"
<wj.alling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Well, now I am confused.  Weren't the maps for the united states supposed to 
>be updated in 2008?
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:38 PM
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Sendero Releases New Maps and POIs
>
>
>> Hello everyone and Happy Holidays!
>>
>> Sendero is pleased to announce the release additional maps and over 2.2 
>> Million POIs.
>>
>> For all countries listed below the new RMF POI's can be found once you log 
>> in to your mysendero website using your serial number and password just 
>> like you did to download your maps originally.
>>
>> The RMF POIs for the Ireland can be found in the single package located in 
>> the UK maps directory.
>>
>> The additional POIs are contained in the zip file 
>> "2008POIs_RMF_CountryName.zip"  Eg. "2008POIs_RMF_USA.zip"  The zip file 
>> contains 2 files a pdb and an rmf file both of these files should be 
>> copied over to your maps folder.
>>
>> Not all of these POIs will be unique and you may get duplicates when using 
>> these new POIs.  These new POIs are optional and its up to you if you want 
>> them or not.  You can tell if the POI is from this file by looking in the 
>> "Tags" Field and if there is the text "RMF" then it is a POI from this new 
>> data set.    Don't forget you could even search for "RMF" in the "Tags" 
>> field during an advance search to give you an idea of the data this new 
>> file contains.
>>
>> By the way, "RMF" stands for "Rich Map Format" which is the map format we 
>> use.  We extracted these embedded POIs from the RMF maps you currently 
>> have and made available these POI's which you had but didn't have access 
>> to.  These POIs are provided by the map company themselves as a basic set 
>> of POIs for their maps.  So as a result some of these POIs like the City 
>> POI category will be in their embedded map POIs and also their premium 
>> POIs which Sendero also licenses and you already have.  There was no easy 
>> way to remove these duplicates but the additional POIs we feel out weigh 
>> the occasional duplicate POI.
>>
>> Here is a complete list of Countries which have been released and the 
>> number of additional POIs for each Country.
>>
>> Enjoy and Happy Holidays everyone!
>> Charles LaPierre CTO
>> Sendero Group
>>
>> Austria 74,159
>> Belgium 84,411
>> Canada  47,018
>> Denmark 29,003
>> Finland 27,536
>> France  299,896
>> Germany 380,335
>> Italy   347,771
>> Netherlands     100,512
>> Norway  24,663
>> Portugal        30,281
>> Spain   162,690
>> Switzerland     64,656
>> UK_Ireland      154,212
>> USA     373,696
>>
>> Total RMF POIs = 2,200,839
>>
>> HongKong, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia already have 
>> these RMF POIs as this was our only source of POIs for these countries.
>>
>>
>> Charles M. La Pierre
>> CTO Sendero Group
>> "The GPS company:" Featuring Sendero GPS on the BrailleNote as well as 
>> Sense Nav and the new Mobile Geo for Windows Mobile devices. Also 
>> distributing Trekker, Victor Stream, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Mobile 
>> Speak, Tiger embossers, Miniguide and ID Mate
>> 1-888-757-6810
>>
>> Lat. 37 15' 25" N  Lon: 121 53' 04" W
>>
>>
>>
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Chris Grabowski
- Customer Support and Product testing
Sendero Group
"The GPS company." Also, distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor 
Stream, Voice Sense, Braille Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID 
Mate

Phone: 888-757-6810 EXT. 113
Email: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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