[gps-talkusers] Re: cannot find street via address lookup

Thanks very much for the info.  Education appreciated.

Greg

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Kevin Chao wrote:

- Greg,
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- The nearest POI returned was "charming just charming, 223 feet, east." 
Now,
- if I did the SPACE/READ with P command on "charming just charming" it will
- say it is in Sacramento.
-
- It appears that Rosemont, Mater, California is a area within Sacramento.
-
- If you do a google search, you can use  either Rosemont or Sacramento as 
the
- city, but with the Sendero GPS you can only enter Rosemont, this is to
- reduce the need for redundacy of cities.
-
- Kevin
-
-
- ----- Original Message ----- 
- From: "Greg Fowler" <
gafowler@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Kevin Chao" <
g.unit89@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:59 PM
- Subject: Re: [gps-talkusers] Re: cannot find street using the address 
lookup
- feature
-
-
- > Hi Kevin,
- >
- > Just out of curiosity what did you find as the closest POI?
- >
- > For comparison I asked Google and it did return Sacramento 95826 as the
- > city/zip.  More trivia from another one of my validation sources--the 
USPS
- > zip
- > code site returns this address as Sacramento.
- >
- > Thanks much.
- >
- >
- > Greg
- >
- >
- > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Kevin Chao wrote:
- >
- > - James,
- > -
- > - Took about 20 minutes or so, but I found the problem with the address
- > that
- > - you are trying to lookup.
- > -
- > - For some reason, if you use the city command after finally getting
- > yourself
- > - on brydon way it will say: "Rosemont, Mather, California" Now with
- > knowing
- > - that it is in "Rosemont" rather than "Sacramento" you can do the
- > following:
- > - state: california
- > - city: Rosemont
- > - address number: 8953
- > - street name: brydon
- > - there you have it!
- > -
- > - It is nice because if you are traveling to this location but never 
were
- > able
- > - to find it, you can use the city command to see what city the system
- > thinks
- > - it is in. As in this situation, it really isn't in Sacramento.
- > -
- > - The way I found this out was by setting myself somewhere in 
Sacramento,
- > - doing a POI find for brydon, setting my virtual position to the first
- > POI
- > - and checking the city.
- > -
- > - ahh the work-arounds involved in using such a featured packed program
- > -
- > - Kevin
- > -
- > - ----- Original Message ----- 
- > - From: "James Malone" <
- > -
malone_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- > - To: <
- > -
gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- > - Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:08 PM
- > - Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: cannot find street using the address 
lookup
- > - feature
- > -
- > - >I forgot to add the address.
- > - > You will find it below.
- > - >
- > - > -----Original Message-----
- > - > From:
- > -
gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- > - > [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James 
Malone
- > - > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:54 PM
- > - > To:
- > -
gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- > - > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: cannot find street using the address
- > lookup
- > - > feature
- > - >
- > - > Why sure!
- > - > I type California as the state, Sacramento for the city, 11 entrys
- > come
- > - > up,
- > - > then I choose the grater Sacramento area. Then I type the 
address8953
- > - > then
- > - > street name. I typed Brydon way for example.
- > - > It says no street was found.
- > - >
- > - > -----Original Message-----
- > - > From:
- > -
gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- > - > [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Chao
- > - > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:47 PM
- > - > To:
- > -
gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- > - > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: cannot find street using the address
- > lookup
- > - > feature
- > - >
- > - > James,
- > - >
- > - > Can you provide a specific example? For example,
- > - >
- > - > state: california
- > - > city: stockton
- > - > address number: blank
- > - > street name: i
- > - > choose i-5nb and returned with no streets
- > - >
- > - > Thanks,
- > - >
- > - > Kevin
- > - > ----- Original Message -----
- > - > From: "James Malone" <
- > - >
- > -
malone_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- > - > To: <
- > - >
- > -
gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- > - > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:42 PM
- > - > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Can't find a street name in the maps folder
- > - >
- > - >> Hi all,
- > - >> Some names of streets still can't be found.
- > - >> For example: I typed my default state, City address, then street. 
No
- > - >> matches were found, and I was asked to type in the street name.
- > - >> Is there another way of typing this in or is there a setting to 
tell
- > - >> the program to look for a newer section of the city?
- > - >> I'm trying to set a destination for a client's  new home, but I 
can't
- > - >> even get the cross street. Yet, I did a map quest along with a
- > sighted
- > - >> person and found his street with no problems. As I was going down 
the
- > - >> street, the GPS was able to find the street with no problems.
- > - >> Do I need to save this as a POI?
- > - >> Thanks.
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