[gps-talkusers] Re: Setting your virtual position to an unnamed location in a city
- From: "Rob Gentell" <rggeneral@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 20:08:18 -0700
Thanks Dave for the tip. The issue I have with searching for a city as
a POI is that It becomes less practical when the city is more than 15 or
20 miles away because of the time it takes the software to perform the
POI search. From experience I know that the gps software can quickly
verify that a city exists in the database almost instantaneously even
hundreds of miles away. This is why I wish there was a way to use Space
S, specify a city and then perhaps have the option of pressing Space V
to set my virtual position whereby skipping the prompts for street name
and number.
I've also noticed some anomalies with approximate distances to POI
cities in which the distance reported to a city is incorrect by a
significant amount (in one case I recently saw the POI distance was more
than 20 miles short of the actual distance from my virtual position).
-----Original Message-----
From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:28 PM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Setting your virtual position to an unnamed
location in a city
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!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Gentell" <rggeneral@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Setting your virtual position to an unnamed
location in a city
> 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
>
>
>> 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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