[gps-talkusers] Re: Question about the monthly poi update
- From: Charles La Pierre <lapierre@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:57:50 -0700
BrailleNote Point of Interest (BPI)
Charles.
At 05:56 AM 7/16/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>What do the acrostics of .bpi stand for?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Todd
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Kim Casey <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:42:02 -0400
> >Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Question about the monthly poi update
>
> >Vinny,
> >We are not making them region specific. The majority of the file that is
> >on there right now is just Mike's travels all over the world. Since it is
> >a BPI file it can consist of many points before it starts slowing down your
> >system.
> >Kim
>
>
> >At 02:32 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote:
> >>Kim and Mike are you making them region specific?
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Kim Casey" <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:15 AM
> >>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Question about the monthly poi update
>
>
> >>> Hello Peggy,
>
> >>>As far as I know (Mike correct me if I am wrong) we will be adding to the
>
> >>>user.bpi file, not creating a new one every month. That way you would
> >>just
>
> >>>delete the old one and replace it with the new one. Newer files would be
>
> >>>made available on the website, on the download page.
>
> >>>www.senderogroup.com/download.htm.
>
> >>>We would greatly appreciate it if you did the editing of your POI file
>
> >>>before sending it in. It would greatly slow down the process of getting a
>
> >>>user.bpi file out every month if we had to comb through POI files to check
>
> >>>for personal POIs.
>
> >>>Thanks
>
> >>>Kim
>
> >>>At 09:30 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote:
> >>>>Hi, guys. I have a question about the monthly updated user points of
> >>>>interest that will be available to version 3 users. Well, actually I
> >>have
> >>>>a couple questions. <grin
>
> >>>>Will any new updates from month to month be included in the same file as
> >>>>those that we received with our original purchase of version 3, or will
> >>>>they be in a separate file? If they're in a separate file, will we
> >>>>eventually run out of room when we have 492 user.bpi files in our system,
> >>>>or whatever they're called? If they're in the same file, will they
> >>>>overwrite the marvelous points of interest we already got in the first
> >>user
> >>>>file, or will they just be added to the first of the user files? I love
> >>>>the idea of monthly downloads of poi's that users share among each other,
> >>>>but don't want to lose stuff if it's overwritten by a new file.
>
> >>>>Also, I've considered sending in my user.poi file, but most of my poi's
> >>are
> >>>>people's houses, though I have added a lot of other stuff too. If I send
> >>>>in my file, should I first edit out the houses of friends, or does
> >>Sendero
> >>>>go through and edit out unnecessary stuff and only include what they feel
> >>>>is of interest to all?
>
> >>>>Thanks.
>
> >>>>Peggy
>
>
>
> >>>>mailto:kernsac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac
> >>>>MSN Messenger kernsac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC
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