Oops. Sorry. Grin. -----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Angela Griffith Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:12 PM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: naming/describing points of interest 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 > >(1-888-757-6810, Fax (530) 757-6830, Mobile (530) 304-0007 >Sendero Group, LLC >1118 Maple Lane, Davis, CA 95616-1723, USA > >Latitude, 38 33 9.239 North >Longitude, 121 45 40.145 West Charles M. La Pierre CTO Sendero Group, LLC Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W