[gps-talkusers] Re: Question about the monthly poi update
- From: "Rich Irwin" <rich.irwin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:02:36 -0700
Hi Peggy:
That will work until they send you back the collective poi file and when you
copy it into your user poi file it will create duplicates of those that you
sent them. If you rename your user poi file and then bring in the
collective poi file, you will not have the poi files that you did not send
to them. If you create a separate and differently named file for your
personal poi files that you do not send, you would have to copy them back
into your user poi file and then edit them back out each month. Hopefully
the program can look at two separate files so we don't have to keep moving
and editing files every month. I hope you are not as confused as I am.
Rich Irwin
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-----Original Message-----
From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peggy Kern
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:49 PM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Question about the monthly poi update
What I might do is to copy my user.poi folder to another folder, edit the
one in my gps poi folder and send it, and then copy my original user.poi
back into the gps poi folder.
Peggy
At 12:26 PM 7/15/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Mike and Kim:
>
>I may not be understanding this correctly. If we edit out those personal
>pois we do not want to send, wont we loose them? Shouldn't there be two
>sets of user poi files: one that includes our "personal" pois that we do
>not want to share; and one that includes those that we do want to share?
>Then we will not need to edit in and out our "personal" pois every month.
>
>Rich Irwin
>rich.irwin@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rich.irwin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael May
>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:10 AM
>To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Question about the monthly poi update
>
>
>Peggy,
>
>Good questions, I am adding some text I wrote about the collective user
>points to the bottom of this email.
>
>The idea is that you would download a zip file with one new User.bpi file
>each month and delete the previous month's User.bpi file. The files will
>have a different date in the filename so you will need to delete your
>previous file.
>
>We won't do much editing of points you send in. If you want, I can make a
>text file of your user.poi file and send it to you for editing on the
>computer rather than from the GPS edit menu.
>
>Once you send in a User.poi file you should move it to a back-up folder and
>out of the POI folder. Otherwise, there will be duplicate entries of your
>personal points and the one's we merged into the collective file.
>
>Mike
>Collective User Points of Interest
>
>Sendero provides a monthly compilation of all User POI files sent to the
>company. This User POI file will be made available by email and/or on the
>Sendero web site for version 3 users. The first of these files is included
>with the new POIs. Users are encouraged to submit their POIs to Sendero to
>be added to the collective user database at the beginning of each month.
>
>Some recommendations about naming points and sending files:
>
>The first comma in a POI name separates its name from its details. If
>possible, provide the POI name, then a comma, then details like phone
>number, cross streets or features about the point. Press the A key for
>example before recording the POI to see what street it is on and add at
>least the street name and city as part of the details. If you have a lot of
>details like the bus numbers at a bus stop, use a Period to separate items.
>You can always go to the GPS menu and select Edit to rename points or to
>delete strictly personal points you may not want to include in the file you
>send to us.
>
>Attach the User.poi file from your POI folder to an email addressed to
><mailto:MikeM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>MikeM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Then, move that file
>out of your POI folder and rename it. Do not touch the extension. Just
>rename the User part of the filename. Once that file is out of your POI
>folder, a new file will be automatically started next time you create a new
>point. If you don't do this, you will have duplicate entries once you load
>the collective User file we send you. Anyone who sends us a User.POI file
>will automatically be sent the collective file. Together, we can enhance
>location information by sharing the POI information we create individually.
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