[gps-talkusers] Re: User Public going to bonus
- From: Judi Potts <pottaroo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:59:55 +1100
Hi Charles
You're a gem, thank you.
Judi> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:41:51 -0700> To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: User Public going
to bonus> > Hi Judi,> > Yes I now see the problem.> You are right I am putting
all user collective POIs into bonus and > ignoring the old category you may
have specified. We fixed this > issue with the POI converter program you all
have to convert your old > 4.x user.poi into 5.0 but I wasn't using that same
procedure when I > converted the old collective user pois.> > I will fix this
problem early next week and regenerate all the user > collective POIs. Once
this has been fixed I will upload a new set of > collective POI files for you
all to download.> > Oh and by the way the phone number and additional
information you > added to your POIs hasn't been lost it is all currently put
into the > description field. There is no way for me to parse this data out and
> put it into the correct fields. Moving forward if you would like to > edit
the collective POIs and fix these issues you can then send these > changes back
to Sendero.> > Thanks> Charles> > At 08:29 PM 10/25/2008, you wrote:> >Yep on
the author, um a bit dumb on the other two lol> >> > > Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008
19:32:19 -0700> > > To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > From:
charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: User Public going to
bonus> > >> > > 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> > > 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>
> >
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