The simplest way is use the BT file manager, select the desired poi file = and use cord "I" for information. This will tell the date last modified. If you have a flash card reader you can see the date modified from the explorer. Be aware that there is a poi file for each state. So you have to look = at the poi file for the sate you are interested in.=20 =20 Carl Simmons carlsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Blanks Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:35 PM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Braille Note VS. Laptop Maps I have a comment and a question. The comment is that I too have noticed = that the commercial POI's seem a couple years old. I also live in the = SF=20 Bay Area. The question may have previously been addressed, but is there an easy = way=20 to find out when your POI's were last updated? Thanks, Scott At 12:28 PM 6/8/04 -0700, you wrote: >Having my GPS system for the Braille Note only since the first of May, = I >assumed the maps to be much more current than those on my 3 year old = laptop >version. The first weekend I had it I was going to go to a concert at = the >Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. So I suggested to my friend that = I >map the route to get there. To my surprise, the Palace of Fine Arts = was not >in the POI file. Just for the heck of it, I looked it up on my laptop = and >there it was. Interesting. > >Since then, I have found that, in general, the maps for my Braille Note seem >to be about 3 years out of date regarding restaurants, hotels, and >recreational areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. Is that typical. Is >there any way I can get them more current other than entering my own = user >Poi's? > >I will say that the POI files on the Braille Note maps are much more >convenient than those on the laptop. The Atlas maps for the laptop = have the >POI files for California broken into separate area, restaurant, hotel, = and >recreation files. Therefore, one needs to know which file to look in. > >One interesting thought. If the maps could contain a link to the = website of >the POI, then we could dial up our ISP from our cell phone and connect = to >the website through the link. From the website we could then get the = exact >address, phone number, latitude & longitude, or any other pertinent >information that may be on the website. > >Rich Irwin >rich.irwin@xxxxxxxxxxx