Hi, i'm not sure if your below point was addressed. all you need to do is pick any street in the town and place yourself in the town, then you can do an advanced poi search from that spot. Chris On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:27:31 -0500, you wrote: >I don't have a virtual position from which to begin a search in the town of >Wisconsin Dells because I haven't been there often enough. I need a way to >do a random search for a specific place name.