[gps-talkusers] Re: Things that would be total cool!

Mike when I loaded my poi file a few months ago I do not get the number of the bus hear in Charlotte. Have I done something rong. It is showing the stop but know longer giving the bus number. Was this a new file from CATS?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Things that would be total cool!


What Rich talked about would indeed be very cool for users, blind or sighted. Linking of transit information will depend upon full access to the individual bus company databases. Since we only have a few of these databases so far, we probably have a couple years to go before we can look at linking the transit districts. Street data initially started out as separate city and district databases so one can imagine how a regional databases comprised of multiple transit databases could eventually be linked. If fuel prices continue to rise, maybe public transit will become more of a priority and something like this could happen.

In terms of your requests Don, we have things like this on our wish list. We would like to have new cities or towns automatically trigger as part of the Look-Around mode. One can of course press C or Chord C to hear the city name and details but this doesn't trigger without pressing a key. One might also like to know what city is ahead of me or what city is North.

In terms of embossing the map, this is being worked on by the Smith Kettlewell Institute. They have developed a web based system for embossing maps. One goes to a web site and chooses various parameters like the city he or she wishes embossed and the scale. An electronic file is then created, which the user can download and then send to their own embosser. This isn't publicly available yet but I have tried it and it works great. You can usually find Josh Miele from SKI at conferences and you can have him produce a Braille map of your favorite location.

Keep these brain storms coming. You never know when one might become a reality.

Mike






At 10:26 AM 4/17/2005, you wrote: 
It would be cool if the GPS could do some of these things!

1.  List all the towns on a certain highway say I57 from start to finish.

2. Get a list of all the towns on the Mississippi river from the head waters to the mouth.

3.  Be able to emboss a state or county map with cities.

Of course it would be nice if Santa clause came more than once a year -- LOL!

I don't have GPS yet but I hope to have that all worked out by the middle of May. I like this list because I get to hear aboug how GPS has changed people's lives.

Thanks,

Donald







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