[gps-talkusers] Re: looking for a restaurant

Paul,

You can easily plop yourself in any city. just put a single letter in the 
street field and you will be presented with a list of streets starting with 
that letter. Pick any of them. Once you are in the vicinity, you can use a 
number of techniques to get to the center of town. Search for the city name in 
the city category, choose 1st street and the like.

Mike


At 05:24 PM 8/25/2006, you wrote:
>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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