[gps-talkusers] Re: looking for a restaurant

Yes! that would be great if we could just jump to a city to have a look around. 
 May we add this to the wish list?  Sometimes you might want to do a search for 
a POI and not really know its exact location.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Henrichsen 
  To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:24 PM
  Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: looking for a restaurant


  Hi, Tom. They make a great lam and rice dish as well. Also, their Lemmon 
pepper shrimp is wonderful.
  I just put in main street figuring every city has a main street. I just tried 
setting a  virtual point just for the city of Sacramento, but it doesn't let 
you.
  You have to enter a street and at least pick a cross street.
  Too bad we couldn't just jump to a city and have a look around.


  Paul Henrichsen 
  <paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx> 





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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Lange
  Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:10 PM
  To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: looking for a restaurant


  Hi Paul,
  You wrote:

   
    Hi, Guys. I don't see an easy way of doing this. It might be a neat feature 
for a future version.
    I live in Clovis, California. I want to see where the nearest P. f. Chang 
Chinese restaurant is. I know there is one in Sacramento.
    I know this because my daughter lives in Fair Field, near sacramento.
    I could put in her address, but what if I didn't have an address to enter?
    How could I switch to sacramento so I could do a poi search for P. f. 
Chang's?

    Got a hankerin' for some Kung Pao chicken, or maybe some orange beef, eh?  

    I know nothing about Sacramento's layout, so I began my search in 
Sacramento by arbitrarily picking 10th street, then picking a cross street, 
which was J street, if I recall.  I set that intersection as a virtual point, 
then did a poi search under restaurants for P F Chang's China Bistro.  There's 
one at 1530 J street.  It's roughly 152 miles away from Clovis, or about 155.83 
miles to 10th and South Clovis.  You could go about 125 miles west and hit the 
P F Chang's in San Jose if that's a better option.  I didn't check out 
Fairfield for locations.

    We have several of them down here in the Los Angeles area.  The orange 
beef, by the way, is absolutely killer, especially with the house chow mein and 
some mixed vegetables on the side and of course, a tall, cold Tsing Tao Chinese 
beer, or two or three.  Yum!

    Tom

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