Hi Judi, ok not sure what happened, why don't you send me the user.poi file you previously sent in to the collective and I will try to track down what has happened. I assume if you go into POI details the ThirdParty ID is blank or non-existent and the Author is yourself?
Thanks. Charles. At 07:02 PM 10/25/2008, you wrote:
Nope haven't even tried converting my personal or any pois, just working with the downloads, also the phone numbers from those pois have disappeared too. I've still got the 4.2 pois if you want them> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:52:25 -0700 > To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: User Public going to bonus > > Hi Judi, > Did you use the POI converter to convert your old 4.2 pois or were > these POIs you sent to the Sendero collective? If it was a user.poi > file you converted and they are still showing up in bonus I will take > a look at your file to see what could be going on. Please send me > your user.poi file and we will take a look. > > Thanks > Charles. > > At 07:43 PM 10/25/2008, you wrote: > >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 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >---------- > > 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 > > > ----------
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
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