New Search Feature to find POI Files at POI-Factory

Works for me.

Daniel

Looks good!

Thanks!

Love it. Thanks miss POI

Great. Thanks again to Jon and Miss POI.

RT

thanks guys like the way it looks

nuvi 5000 & nuvi 200w

Quick and efficient!

Thank you.

great job

very useful addition.

I had been going to the alpha POI file page, hitting CTRL-F to bring up the Windows Find function and typing in the search term.

This seems faster.

Very useful feature; works very well.

Thanks

Worked great. One very minor suggestion would be to move it to the top of the page to make it more visible.

Very nice. Thanks.

“Content, POI Files and Users” searching, it’s a definite winner.

Kudos to you MaryAnn & Jon, you just keep making it better and better.

Regards,

Tailspin

Nüvi 670 & 880
Mac Pro & OS 10.5.4

Excellent.

Agree with moving it to the top, right under "Home"

Great Tool, thank you

You may want to consider an index for the major sections of that page at the very top of the page. This would help with visibility, navigation and organization.

I nominate the two of you for "Contributors of the Week". Good job!

Like it very much much easier than before. Good Job

The search works quickly. Would it be possible to alphabetize the results?

The results are shown in order of most downloads. The ones that are most popular are usually at the top.

Miss POI

We have made this change, great suggestion;)

Miss POI

The sort is weighted as follows:

9x - POI Package / Metro area
8x - Download popularity in the last week
2x - Keyword relevence

JM

I have noticed one problem (sorry ). I tried searching for J C Penney stores which I knew was listed, but I didn't know exactly how it was spelled:

JC Penney
J C Penney
J. C. Penney

So I just typed Penney and came up with no matches which I knew was wrong. So I scrolled through the alpha list until I found it. Turns out, it was spelled JCPenney, all run together.

So the search function must be looking for whole-word matches only. I'm not sure how many other entries this may affect.

A way around this is to put keywords and nicknames in the description. I have made some changes in the description of JC Penny and it should be showing up under the keywords listed above in about an hour.

The search engine searches the description, so keep that in mind when making files that might have nicknames such as KFC for Kentucky Fried Chicken, and other things.

Miss POI

So to all POI File managers out there, please add all other spellings and keywords to your file descriptions today when you have a chance, this includes, Walmart, and other places that are spelled a bit differently.

Thanks,

Miss POI

walmart, wal-mart, super walmart, super wal-mart, etc... I was able to find the poi regardless... any suggestions that I might add?

BTW as Gary stated, he found jcpenny by looking at the alpha list, is it possible to add a window at the top of the alpha list that would take you to the letters typed? i.e. when you typed j you would be taken to the top of the j's then when the c was typed you would be taken to jc etc... I'm not sure if that is possible, but it would help searching the list as it grows larger and larger...

I have passed this request to our programing guru and he will see what it would take to make it happen. He has some other projects in the works also.

Miss POI

Good to know that it searches the description, not just the title. Is the search case sensitive, like:

Walmart
WalMart
walmart
Wal-mart
Wal-Mart

Probably not, but I'm just asking to make sure.

Another search variant might be state names spelled out and state names abreviated, like:

Idaho
ID

I'll start looking at my POI file descriptions. Thanks for the tip!!

Guess we know who the programming guru is

Do you think that the View all POI files (listed alphabetically) to the top also?

Thank you to the programming guru...

I have been away from the site for awhile and am very happy to see that it just keeps getting better! Thanks to Ms Poi and all of the others who help make this such a great site.

You can't search for WM or W M even though that is listed in the description... It has to be at least 3 letters... So JC won't return JC Penny but Penny will... Mart or mart, super or Super will get you to the walmart poi as they are all listed in the poi description... also aophiuchus will get you to the Wal-Mart poi's....

The new search feature doesn't find the CVS POI when entering "cvs". I expected it to find www.poi-factory.com/node/14177.

Tim

Try .csv

Forget it - my error !

I typed in "CVS Pharmacy" and it came right up !

It looks fine and works great. Keep up the improvements. You are doing better then Garmin.

Now I just need to be able to think of key words to find.