Newbie question: date-sensitive POIs

I don't think it's possible for Nuvi.

I'm not sure what exactly youre talking about to be honest...

But, Im going to take a guess.

I'm thinking something along the idea of a "Roach Coach" - "kitchen trucks" that travel around town.

If you have a schedule for your kitchen truck set for a week ahead of time, you could label each "stop" with the day of the week the truck is planning on being there...

Or if its something where the truck makes weekly rounds, and is normally, say, in the same place every tuesday, adding the day of the week to the location name would work.

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To explain it better...

It's similar to the "roach coach" concept you outlined.. where it is multiple vehicles at different spots each day of the week.. but there's no real pattern to it.

So if I understand what you said, there's no real way to do it unless you load a new POI each day or have all of them for the week showing and just labeled with the day that they are there?

Thanks for helping me understand!

To explain it better...

It's similar to the "roach coach" concept you outlined.. where it is multiple vehicles at different spots each day of the week.. but there's no real pattern to it.

So if I understand what you said, there's no real way to do it unless you load a new POI each day or have all of them for the week showing and just labeled with the day that they are there?

Thanks for helping me understand!
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ok, well, I understand better. I can't think of any better way of doing it, other than labeling each "waypoint" with the day the vehicle will be there, or having a file named BlahBlahJune-TwentySIixth, for example, and warn peole that file is only valid for that day.

Of course, this all assumes you have a schedule set ahead of time...

Sorry for being so ignorant to all of this...

So your latter suggestion would be that I'd have all the days of the week available to download, then they can simply put them all on their device, and just activate whichever they want and deactivate the expired one? Or does the device automatically insert all the POIs you load onto it?

Thanks!

Well

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As far as all the POIs being inserted, at least with my Nuvi and the garmin POI Loader,
Yes, all the POI files in the folder you select are loaded on to the GPS

So...you could hgave 1 file, with a name that doesnt change, and update it every day, perhaps including the specifc date in the name of hte actual POI....

That way, every time someone downs a new version of the poi file, they'll overwrite the old one, deleting old entries...

Or...if you say name your POI Files JulySIx, for all the stops on July 6, you can hope your users will be smart enough to figure out whats going on...

Of course, if you had a static POI file name, and the date as part of the actual POI name, you're users would also have to know enough to read the name of the POI close.....

THis seems pretty simple to me...I'm wondering why you're having a hard time grasping it. I';m starting to wonder exactly what kind of business this is...... Is it a cash only business? Is it illegal in 49 states?

Here is something similar I've done for the ferry system in Washington.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/20263

Granted the terminals don't move, and the schedule only updates quarterly, but it might give you and idea. If all of your locations are "fixed" and the schedules change, you could create a schedule for each location. This works well if you want to know when something is at a particular location. However, if you want to know where something is on a given day, this would be a very poor setup. For this latter case, if there truly is no pattern to moves you're probably hosed.