[gps-talkusers] Re: Setting your virtual position to an unnamed location in a city
- From: "Cheng Hock Kua" <adaptive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 11:28:57 +0800
Hi Rob
I took your challenge from Singapore and did this:
Have the four maps for California loaded,
Use the search address command with space-s
Choose California
Since you wanted Oakland
choose Oakland
Choose street name by entering
cent
since you were suggesting the center of the city
and three street options came up
Choose Center St.
Since you did not have an address
choose the default cross street at address 0
At this point, choose v for virtual instead of destination.
Next, set yourself in the virtual mode with the v command
Now you are at the position on Center St.
Use the space-f command to search within 0 miles to 10 miles or use any
arbitrary distance.
I chose 10 miles since I suspect I should be around the city center and want
to look for the railway station.
Choose the bus/rail category
I then chose the search string by typing
jack
since you suggested Jack London in your e-mail.
Jack London Square Bart Station, Alice Street, Oakland CA94607
was found within less than 2 miles away from my virtual position.
At this point of interest prompt, I re-set my virtual position with space-v
so that I would virtually be at the rail station
and I was brought to the virtual position of the railway station.
Now that I am "virtually at the Jack London Station", I can do another
search for Restaurants with the space-f command. remember to start at the
0-miles to 1-mile radius so that you can find the nearest restaurant. 238
restaurants showed up!
Enjoy yourself touring around Jack London Square Station before you arrive.
Regards
Cheng Hock
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Gentell" <rggeneral@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:09 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Setting your virtual position to an unnamed
location in a city
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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