[gps-talkusers] Re: looking for a restaurant

Mike,

Your approach is interesting and I can see why you're saying what you're saying. I mentioned being able to pinpoint the centre of the city in one of my posts the other day so now let me add to that. In the US I think it's pretty easy to guess the name of a road in the centre of a city. In the UK it's not quite so easy and I still think I'd welcome a way to do this pretty accurately as a startingpoint. Of course, we go for railway stations etc to give us a fair idea where we may start but I have had occasions, especially when driving, when I've known how far a friend's home is from the centre but not known where I was in relation to that friend's and to the centre either.

Hope this makes some sense.

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Carol
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 6:59 PM
Subject: [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
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From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Lange
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:10 PM
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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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