[gps-talkusers] Setting your virtual position to an unnamed location in a city
- From: "Rob Gentell" <rggeneral@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:09:05 -0700
Question: Is there a way of setting your virtual position by somehow
specifying the city without having to first set your virtual position to
a street name and a street number or cross street when you don't know
the name of a nearby street in order that you can locate a POI? For
example, perhaps you know ahead of time which train stop you'll be
getting off at (such as Jack London Square in Oakland CA or Grand
Central Station in New York), but you haven't got a clue what part of
town the station is in and you simply want to locate a nearby restaurant
ahead of time because you're starved. I'm looking for a quick way to
tell the GPS software that my virtual position is somewhere in a
particular city such as Oakland, CA so that I can then perform a POI
search for a railway/bus containing "Jack London". Then, I can reset my
virtual position to that railway stop and then search out restaurants
from that location. It would be convenient to be able to skip the
necessity to specify a street name and street number or cross street
when using the Set address command. Wouldn't it be nice if after
issuing the Set Address command and specifying a state and city that one
could then choose "Center of Town" as your virtual position, and start
exploring from there?
Any ideas or comments are appreciated. Thanks.
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