[gps-talkusers] Re: Skewed POI Data

  • From: Chris Grabowski <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:50:16 -0400

Hi,
What category subcategory are they in, are they user poi's?
Thanks
Chris
 wrote:

>Hi Charles
>
>I think somehow these must be rogue Poi readings as the Long/Lat 
>readings don't make sense to me? Perhaps I should just delete 
>them? I include just one, but there are hap a dozen showing up in 
>my nearby vicinity when I look...
>
>Rivermeade Front Door latitude: 53 degrees, 40 minutes, 38.9820 
>seconds north.  longitude: 2 degrees, 19 minutes, 5.2980 seconds 
>west.,katsuris (a delikatessen shop in Bury)53.6774683 north 
>(latitude)
>com2.3181633 west (longitude)
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Charles LaPierre <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Date sent: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:56:05 -0700
>>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Skewed POI Data
>
>>Hello Dennis,
>>This does not make any sense, a POI over 10 miles away should not 
>be
>>showing up 800 feet away.  Are you in the right mode GPS vs
>>Virtual?  If you are in GPS are you sure you have a GPS position
>>fix?  If you are sure your position is correct then please 
>provide
>>use with a Lat/Lon of your current position and the POI's 
>Location
>>either its lat/lon or its 3rd party ID and we can verify whats 
>going on.
>
>>Thanks
>>Charles.
>
>>At 04:51 PM 10/30/2008, you wrote:
>>>Hello Charles et al
>
>>>A strange sort of anomaly I notice with Pois.  Using Sendero GPS 
>ver
>>>5.0.  When I am at my GPS position outside my house, or in 
>virtual
>>>mode at the same location, when looking around for Pois in the
>>>vicinity with f then space dot 4, I see many of the shops in the
>>>Bury shopping mal (about 10 miles away) as showing up at 800 feet 
>or
>>>similar.  The latitude/longitudes of the Pois are correct, that 
>is
>>>they are not showing up as the same as my house.
>>>Nothing to cry over but a bit strange...
>
>>>Dennis.
>
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>
>>Charles M.  La Pierre
>>CTO Sendero Group
>>"The GPS company." Distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor Stream,
>>Voice Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID Mate
>>1-888-757-6810
>
>>Lat.  37 15' 25" N  Lon: 121 53' 04" W
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Chris Grabowski
- Customer Support and Product testing
Sendero Group
"The GPS company." Also, distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor 
Stream, Voice Sense, Braille Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID 
Mate

Phone: 888-757-6810 EXT. 113
Email: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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