Charles,
Does the BN only support KWB and KWT text files for POI attachment?
How about TXT, or MS-word documents?
Thanks
Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles LaPierre"
<charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:31 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: new question, restaurant menus
Hello JJ, Armando and all
Yes you are correct JJ, 4.2 does not come with all the restaurant menus,
my gosh if we did you can be sure that would have been a HUGE deal about
that little gem.
What GPS 4.2 allows you to do is link a POI you create to a audio wav
file or a KWT or KWB document which you create. One example of a use for
this would be to link it to a menu. Other uses could be to link it to a
voice description of a sculpture in a park for example. GPS 4.2 also
allows you to record using the BrailleNote's recording functionality a
voice clip describing this audio POI.
To link a new POI to a menu one would first find the menu, possibly
online at the Restaurants website and grab the text save it on the
BrailleNote as either a KWT or KWB file then link it to the POI. This
would be a user POI probably with the subcategory of Restaurant. So
whenever you arrive near that restaurant you will be notified that POI
had additional richmedia content and the GPS would launch the bookreader
and playback that menu if you wanted.
Then if you wanted to share that "richmedia POI" with everyone else you
could send Sendero the user.poi containing this POI along with your
"POIContent" directory (a new folder located under your maps folder) and
Sendero would post the new user collective POIs along with your rich
media menu file for that restaurant.
In the future we hope to make this process more streamlined but currently
it is possible with a little work.
Hope that clarifies things.
Thanks
Charles.
At 09:18 PM 12/17/2007, you wrote:
Hello Armando,
To my knowledge, no restaurant menus are actually included with the new
version. A new feature has been added which allows you to link text or
audio content to a point of interest. One example for a possible use of
this feature was to link a restaurant menu to a POI, though it certainly
isn't the only use for the new feature. So, once some users have menus
to share, you may see more of this.
Hope this helps.
J.J.
<http://www.BlindBargains.com>www.BlindBargains.com
Deals, news, and resources for the blind and visually impaired
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:armando_maldonado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Armando Maldonado
To: <mailto:gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:09 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] new question, restaurant menus
Hello Mmembers,
For those who downloaded the newest version of gps, how do I get this to
read restaurant menus? I could not find that specific feature, and
honestly, that and the saving maps to print were the things that
attracted me the most in downloading the gps. Thanks.
Armando
Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC
Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W
