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SandLake Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 29, 2006 Posts: 68
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: Regionalised POI's |
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Can anyone describe the best way of regionalising POI's, for example if I am going on a trip from Essex to Norfolk via Suffolk, how could I load only POI's for those 3 counties? |
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swing Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Nov 04, 2003 Posts: 2225 Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Unless your device is very tight on memory space, there's no need to limit the POIs to a region - the device should automatically display the POIs in distance order from your location (or your destination, or whatever you configure in the search settings) and limiting the POIs by county may result in you missing a POI, which is close, but just over a county boundary.
Unless I'm missing something... _________________ Please don't be offended if I do not reply to a PM - please ask questions via the forums. |
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SandLake Regular Visitor
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: |
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I was under the impression that the more POI's you had the slower the GPS operated, particularly in starting up.
If I am doing a journey between Essex and Norfolk, there is not a lot of point in having Cornwall POI's, I typically use my i3 for a few specific journeys for which I could load a set of POI's |
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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | I was under the impression that the more POI's you had the slower the GPS operated, particularly in starting up. |
Never noticed a difference with my i3. 33K POIs vs 0 POIs = same. |
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philpugh Lifetime Member
Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 2003 Location: Antrobus, Cheshire
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: |
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If you really feel the need to do this - and I don't believe there is any need - then you could create a spreadsheet of the POIs, sort by Lat and get rid of the ones outside a value you determine and then sort the remaining by long and do the same (thus defining a square area of POIs) which you could load to your system. Surely you don't intend doing this for all the speed cameras as well?
However - as stressed before - there is no need to do this. If you are using an all-in-one PND device (e.g. TomTom One / Garmin 310) then the extra few seconds (that 's what it is) when powering on is hardly a sacrifice - it will take longer for the device to get a sat lock under most conditions. In operation it won't be a problem.
For PDA based solutions then an older, slower PDA may struggle with very large amounts of POIs _________________ Phil |
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