[gps-talkusers] Re: discrepancy in POI locations
- From: Charles LaPierre <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:42:53 -0800
Hi Jim,
Just one of those miss-positioned POIs it seems. Some database had
some number transcribed incorrectly and taken as the master location
and presto all future versions of this database has this incorrect
position. It is our hope that we will be able in future versions to
improve the POI's location and allow users to update this information
and eventually we can give this information back to the data-source
provider so that future updates will have the correct
information. We have put in the foundation to make this happen with
version 5.0 but our current version doesn't offer this ability yet.
Thanks
Charles.
At 10:32 AM 12/28/2008, you wrote:
Hi Charles, we were looking for a place to stay the night yesterday
near Delano on i 99 in Southern Cal. I found a Best Western but it
became evident when we got near the supposed location that there
was nothing there. My wife had seen one about a mile back so we
turned around and found the Liberty In, formerly Best Western. The
Liberty In didn't even appear in the database and was over a mile
from the Best Western site we had been looking for. I marked the
real site if you want me to send you the Lat Lon, but that's
probably not necessary. That tended to make me a little wary about
the database. I realize that some commercial POI's can be off base
but by over a mile?
I asked the clerk about it and she said that her own GPS and other
customers had the same issue. Something about this location or
something, so it's not just Sendero's issue. I'm just curious about
this situation. This is more of a curiosity than a
complaint. Thanks for all you do. You guys really do a fabulous
job and I realize it's impossible to know about all the bugs in the database.
Best regards, Jim
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