[gps-talkusers] Re: for intrepid travelers only

Joe,

You are correct. One can create user points of interest and manual user defined routes. One can easily hire a taxi and knock out 100 points in an hour or two at the most. Many countries at least have a point of interest for the city in a commercial database.

Once you have several reference points around a town, you use what I call the Getting Warmer Method to reach those points. This doesn't tell you which streets to turn on. You just know the direction and distance to each point. If we had several people descending upon a city at once, we could mark it up pretty nicely.

Mike


At 10:12 AM 11/27/2005, you wrote: 
Hi Mike,

If you could elaborate on how your GPS system functions in an area
without map support, this would be helpful. I assume that you basically
use the system to create your own points of interest, and then navigate
using these user created POIs?


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I wouldn't rule a place out just because we didn't have street maps
available. I travel to lots of places like this and the GPS is still
very helpful. I haven't been to Japan in about 10 years and would
love to visit again.

There would be an advantage to traveling to a country in Europe where
we have maps assuming all other factors were attractive. The dog
factor may be something to be considered as well. If we were to have
maps by next year for Australia, this would be a good incentive for a
trip there. It is all speculation at this point but something to kick
around.

We have had the Way Fun trip the last 3 years in mid September after
the peak summer travel season. I know this limits people who teach or
are students.

Mike


At 11:15 PM 11/26/2005, you wrote:
>Hello, Mike,
>If you guys just happen to choose Japan, I live there, so could meet
>you all and keep someone from falling into a roadside ditch or a
>grating or something.  I am sure that I could find other ways to be
>useful.  Haha.
>
>Happy trekking.  Just be aware that properly formatted gps maps do
>not exist for Japan and quite a few other foreign countries.  Your
>GPS receivers would work just fine over here, but just no POIs.
>
>The Japanese have GPS for cars, and it is as good or better than
>anything you are apt to find in the US.  However, of course, the
>formatting is different.
>
>Dick Myers
>
>(8):[(8)
>
>
>From: Michael May <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] for intrepid travelers only
>Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:15:32 -0800
>
>I have been contemplating a travel idea, potentially to be our Way
>Fun 2006 trip or perhaps in addition to it. In theory, who would
>partake of the following crazy idea?
>
>Each Tuesday morning, United Airlines posts last minute super deals.
>Some are domestic and some are international. They are from major
>airports like San Francisco, Chicago and New York. They offer deals
>like $318 round trip San Francisco Paris or to Japan round trip for
$500.
>
>There are catches of course. You have to book the trip within the
>following week to travel immediately thereafter. You can stay 7 to 10
days.
>
>My idea is to pick specific travel dates well in advance but leave
>the destination and final plans open until the prior Tuesday to
>departure. On that particular Tuesday, we would all read the United
>email and then get on a conference call early that same morning and
>pick a destination based upon the deals of the week. We would then
>have a few follow up conference calls and emails to establish
accommodations.
>
>Wouldn't the anticipation be great as well as the last minute
>scramble to sort out the travel details? It would be our own mini
>version of the Amazing Race. The price would be great too.
>
>The down side might be that the special fares are taken up from one
>airport and not another or maybe not all destinations would have a
>deal from all the major cities in the U.S. We could study the weekly
>United announcements to become educated about this. I don't
>anticipate that a large group would or could participate in this
>adventure but I bet 10 or 12 people might.
>
>Who would be theoretically game for this?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Michael G. May
>
>CEO Sendero Group
>
>Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
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