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

Tom,

I personally always enter the core name rather than the entire street name
to avoid these issues. As in your situation I would type the entire street
name leaving out the "st."

Kevin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lange" <
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To: <
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:31 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Can't find a street name in the maps folder

> Hi,
> This may be obvious to some, but watch out for what Grade 2 Braille
> translation will do while searching for streets, too. I used to live on
> Lemay Street in Van Nuys, which shows up in the maps as being in Los
> Angeles.  While looking for my old address just for kicks and grins, I
> entered Los Angeles as the city, gave the street number 15027, then typed
> lemay st using the st sign, dots 3 and 4.  Apparently the st sign is
> interpreted as "still", thus I received the message that the street wasn't
> found. Entering "st" in grade 1 solved the problem.
>
> Tom
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Grabowski" <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <
gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:59 PM
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Can't find a street name in the maps folder
>
>
>> Hi James
>> when going down the street while tracking if you press C you will be
>> told the city that the system thinks you are in.
>> it may not be what you think.  for example in Buffalo NY there are
>> streets in the suburbs that people think are actually in buffalo NY.
>> once armed with the information for city you can then use that city to
>> do the address lookup.
>> you can also set yourself virtually to somewhere in the city and do a
>> poi search space with f Read with f for the name of the street and you
>> can then set your virtual position to that poi.
>> Section 5.2.1 in the manual will give you the information you need
>> with an example.
>> Hope this helps.
>> Chris
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:42:48 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>> James
>>>
>>
>
>
>

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