[gps-talkusers] e: Re: think a monthly chat is great idea for new users

Wow! Was that ever helpful! That is wonderful. You would not believe what they did to the Cape Cod map here in Mass. The section of town shows up but everything's all messed up. The section appears as streets: ex. town of Hyannis shows up as Hyannis-Nantucket as a street. That's crazy! So I could mark streets if I was with someone to read signs. It gets better when I get in other parts of the state. This part is very difficult. I hope to be moving at some point and that should help matters. Thank you so much for this. I can now mark points when I find them. Karen and Harpo 


----- Original Message -----
From: "April Martin" <ashinholster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:11:42 -0500
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: think a monthly chat is great idea 
for new users
A manual route is one where you program your own way points 
instead of
having the unit do this for you. I find this particularly useful 
when
working off street grids. The biggest advantage in my opinion is 
that you
can even program these routes where very little mapping has taken 
place.  For
example, I live in a park that simply shows up as Trails West, 
but I have
programmed many routes within the park by simply hitting R for 
route, O for
open and typing in the desired name. If the route does not 
already exist the
until will provide prompts in very much the same way as for 
creating new
word processing documents which haven't yet been created. You 
can then use K
with space if you have a braille keyboard and follow the prompts 
to create
your own way point. This is great for rural environments. I 
have even used
it to locate my tent in a crowded campground. Be sure to hit r 
and C to
close the route and it will ask if you want to save it. You can 
also simply
go back to the main menu and the unit will provide prompts for 
saving the

route.  I hope this helps explain the difference.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Bailey" <karenb74@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:28 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] think a monthly chat is great idea for 
new users
Hi, I think the idea of a monthly chat is good and I would be 
more likely
to do this. I have a hard time remembering about the weekly 
because am so
busy then. If there were a specific topic of interest I could 
then
schedule and make the effort. I have a question. What is the 
manual
route creation? How is that different from automatic. I am 
still trying
to figure this whole thing out. I have created route by just 
putting rv
for vehicle or pedestrian. Still am confused about some things, 
and am
big braille user, and sometimes learn slower when by speech. 
Thanks.

Karen and Harpo Also





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