I am sorry, press space and the letter F as in foxtrot. Then select city as
the category you are looking for. Once it finds Oakland you can do the
space and F again and continue your search. I apologize for the typo, or
perhaps gap in thinking.
Dave
taxation WITH representation isn't so hot, either!
Dave,
This is precisely what I'd like to do but it doesn't seem to work as you described. You wrote:
"Once in California in virtual mode, you can press space and S and look under cities for Oakland and make that your virtual location by pressing V ...".
While in Virtual mode and pressing Space s, entering Oakland as the city and pressing Enter, I'm prompted for the street name. This is where I'd like to effectively abort the normal procedure and set my virtual position within some unspecified location within that city. I tried pressing Space V which I believe you had implied. An error tone is sounded when I press Space V at this point because the software needs me to specify a street name. Am I missing something?
Thanks Cheng for your descriptive step-by-step instructions. This is more or less what I have been doing and I'd like to simply cut down on the number of steps. I like your method of choosing "cent" as a street name because I'd imagine that most cities have at least one street called Central or Center.
-----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:48 AM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Setting your virtual position to an unnamed location in a city
There is always more than one way to skin a cat, sorry cat lovers.
Once in California in virtual mode, you can press space and S and look under cities for Oakland and make that your virtual location by pressing V, that way you don't need to choose any streets. I don't know how GPS decides where to place you in Oakland, or any other city for that matter, but in
this case it got you real close to your desired destination. If you press space plus S again and search under the Buss Railway category you will find Jack London Square, Bart station, 0.87 miles. . Make that your virtual
location and you can then search for restaurants or anything else you want.
Dave
taxation WITH representation isn't so hot, either!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheng Hock Kua" <adaptive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 8:28 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Setting your virtual position to an unnamed
location in a city
theHi 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 at0-miles to 1-mile radius so that you can find the nearest restaurant.238restaurants 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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