[gps-talkusers] Re: naming/describing points of interest

  • From: "Angela Griffith" <agrffth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:12:04 -0700

He lives!  Hope you had a good short week.  Mine was busy.  Glad it is the
weekend!  :)

Angela


-----Original Message-----
From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Charles La
Pierre
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:03 PM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: naming/describing points of interest


I hope to fix this and increase this limit from 50 Characters to 250 for
the next release.
Charles

At 07:46 PM 9/22/2005, you wrote:
>Now, after first naming my POI's, I've gone back in and edited them.  And,
>when adding together the parts of the name before and after the comma, the
>names of some of them run over fifty characters.  Although, if one doesn't
>count the spaces or number signs, then the longest ones are right at fifty
>characters.  So, not sure if I'm misunderstanding something.  But, no big
>deal, though, as things are working fine for me, just being curious and
>trying to get in as much info as possible, that's all.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:55 AM
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: naming/describing points of interest
>
>
>The maximum POI length applies to the entire string recorded when you
>press the Record POI button. There is only one field. What you hear
>with the P key is everything that comes before the first comma.
>
>Mike
>At 04:20 AM 9/22/2005, you wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >In regards to naming/describing points of interest, I'm having a problem
in
> >understanding just how many characters we have for this overall.  Now, in
> >looking at the manual, it does talk about having up to fifty characters
to
> >describe the POI.  So, was this referring to the description field only,
> >meaning what we hear when we press space with p?  And, if so, then how
many
> >characters do we have to just name the POI, meaning what we hear when we
> >press just the letter p?
> >
> >Thanks.
>
>
>Michael G. May
>
>CEO Sendero Group
>
>Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
>Distributing BrailleNote, VoiceNote, Miniguide, The Tissot Silen-T
>tactile watch, Talks cell phone software and the ID Mate, bar code reader
>
>MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.SenderoGroup.com
>
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Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC

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