[gps-talkusers] Re: searching for cities or areas

Mike,

I have done this! It makes me feel way experienced to have problem-solved as
you would (and did)!

Sandy

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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael May
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] searching for cities or areas

I was riding with family in a car yesterday and a discussion came up 
about good places to have a vacation home. People started throwing 
out possible cities or areas. Someone mentioned the town of Cool 
California but we weren't quite sure where it was.

I had two ways I could search for Cool on my GPS. I tried an address 
match and Cool was not found. Then I did a search for Cool in the POI 
city category and found it. I set my virtual position to Cool and saw 
that it was 29 miles north of my current GPS position. I switched to 
Virtual mode and did another city search for 5 miles from Cool and 
found the city of Auburn, which was familiar to all of us.

We next wondered if there were any lakes in that area so I did a 
search on the word lake and found everything from Lake street to 
Blake's auto service. I did find a couple real lakes too.

Many of the extra POIs with the G N I S term have lakes, springs and 
summits. You can often find the elevation of the G N I S items too. 
So I did a search on the word lake in the Bonus category as well as a 
search on the 4-letter term GNIS.

With a little bit of ingenuity, I was able to do some very quick and 
useful geographic research, far more effective than someone poring 
over a print map. I located a lake in the foothills that sounded like 
a fun place to check out next time we took a weekend drive to explore.

If ever you don't find a city match, use that POI City category to 
get yourself virtually to the right area and then use the C key to 
see what City name is used for the address matching index.

Mike



Michael G. May

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