[gps-talkusers] Re: auto versus ped travel and gps settings

A nice feature of  Sendero GPS version 4.2 is to  auto announce street, city, 
state/province/region changes. So in the case of Raul
being in a familiar area and just wanting to hear the city change be announced, 
it can be done without any user intervention except
for  turning off LookAround if so desired. 

Note: To obtain up-to-date exit category POIs as well as transits, ATMs, and 
User POIs, visit and download the monthly compilation
at MySendero.com. 

Kevin 

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Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:14 PM
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: auto versus ped travel and gps settings

Hi Mary. To add to what Chris mentioned, the distance of up-coming turns 
is automatically adjusted depending on the kind of route you are in and 
how fast you are going, so you don't need to adjust this yourself. 
Usually if I'm in a new area I leave everything on, but if I'm in a very 
familiar area, I usually set the lookaround to city only instead of all, 
this way as I approach a city marker POI, I hear that instead of all the 
commercial POIs. You can also just choose any other category to listen 
to. For example, if we are on a highway, I set the commercial POIs 
lookaround to only mention the exits category so the exit numbers are 
heard as well as restaurants, hotels, gas stations, ETC, things along 
the highways which are in the exits categories.

Mary Otten wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm a new sense nav user. I am really enjoying the virtual explore
> feature during this cold and rainy spell here in Eugene, Oregon.  but
> the sun must eventually come out even here, which leads me to ask a
> couple of questions about using the gps as a pedestrian versus when as
> a passenger in a car. For you experienced folks out there, are there
> some settings that you routinely change, turn on or off, depending
> whether you are a pedestrian or a passenger? Its pretty obvious that
> having all that look around stuff talk when in a car would be pretty
> nerve racking. but what about arrival distances or other things? Since
> an auto goes so much faster than one does on foot, the notification for
> being near the next turn or near the destination would have to be set
> to a greater distance than if one were traveling on foot, I'm sure, but
> I don't really have a feeling for what those distances should be. 
> 
> mary
> 


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