[gps-talkusers] Re: user ppois
- From: "Steve" <drum67-72@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:58:50 -0400
Yes, sometimes there are some stops here that are in the middle of a block.
If you get to the stop and have quite a few satellites, you can mark it as a
POI. Then, when you walk back by that stop, particularly if you have the
distance setting down to ten feet, you will be within 7-15 feet of that exact
location when the program announces that you are near the stop. I usually set
the stop as the destination by looking it up in my private user poi's.
You don't have to have a route open to set a stop as a Poi. You would if you
set it as a waypoint. But, I think in your question although you said
waypoint, you were really thinking of a pOI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina B." <tinabir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:21 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] user ppois
Do people find bus stops useful as pois? I've thought of making some. mostly
bus stops right now because they can e hard to find also, a question on
waypoints, do I have tohave a route created to use a waypoint? I was
thinking of putting one a cross the street from where i get dropped off
coming home from work because across the street they treat as a courtesy
stop and of course no one says which side we are on, so I wanted to know if
i can mark it not being in a route. i have been fine so far just tracking
where the bus is going not being in a route.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:11 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Converting files for POI's
> Actually Steve, sending Sendero this file as is will work fine for us to
> add it to the User collective pois for Transit bus stops without any
> conversions.
>
> But if you want to know how to do this you do the following.
> Take the whole # and that is your degrees.
> Take the decimal # and multiply it by 60.
> Then Take the whole # and that is your minutes.
> Then take the remainder decimal # and multiply that by 60.
> Then that whole decimal number is your seconds.
> If the Latitude has a negative in it then you are in the Southern
> Hemisphere.
> If the Longitude has a negative in it then you are in the Western
> Hemisphere.
>
> Now this all assumes the decimal lat/lon is in the datum WGS84, if its in
> any other datum it must be converted to WGS84 beforehand otherwise it
> won't match up with the BrailleNote.
>
> Hope this helps
> Charles
>
>
> At 08:56 AM 7/23/2008, you wrote:
>>Any idea on how to convert a file with GPS locations that I got from my
>>transit company that are set in degrees and then a long decimal string
>>into
>>the degrees with minutes and seconds that you guys need for the Poi's?
>>
>>Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.
>>
>>Steve
>>Lansing, Mi
>
> Charles M. La Pierre
> CTO Sendero Group
> "The GPS company." Distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor Stream, Voice
> Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID Mate
> 1-888-757-6810
>
> Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W
>
>
>
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