[gps-talkusers] Re: User Public going to bonus
- From: Judi Potts <pottaroo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:43:29 +1000
When I created POIs in 4.2 I listed them as ie Shop/Food or just shop, bank or
whatever (as did some other users in Oz) but now they are bonus. In 4.2 they
came up by category, bank, shop etc, does that mean we have to do all of the
pois again?> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:16:26 -0700> To:
gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject:
[gps-talkusers] User Public going to bonus> > Hi Judy> > Yes all the old User
collective POIs which the user didn't specify a > category now get thrown into
Bonus.> Under 5.0 when a user adds a new POI it is either user Private or you >
specify another category and subcategory for the POI, and when you > specify a
category or subcategory other than User Private then it is > User Public by
default.> > I know its a little confusing. Let me give you an example.> > You
create a new user POI, if you don't specify anything it goes in > your User
category / Private subcategory. You can not create a POI > and put it under the
User / Public (because this now means that its > been categorizes to some other
category not user/private)> > Now you create another user POI, but now you
specify that its a > Restaurant / Chinese. So under 5.0 you can search for
either that > second POI under User/Public, or Restaurant / Chinese.> The first
POI you search for only under User/Private.> > Now under 4.2 and earlier we use
to have a category user / > subcategory public which users put their pois in.
Well this didn't > really tell you guys anything when you saw a user public POI
(eg. > "Mikes Place" under user Public, what does that mean? Is it a >
restaurant, a friends house or a bar? So this is why we had to move > all old
user collective POIs that weren't already in a category other > than user to
bonus. Now if a user put a 4.2 collective POI in > Restaurant, we have kept
that under 5.0.> > I hope that all makes sense.> > Thanks> Charles.> > > At
05:58 PM 10/25/2008, you wrote:> >It's now listing commercial POIs, but the
user POIs keep saying bonus> >> >----------> > Charles M. La Pierre> CTO
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