POI Proximity - Radius?

 

I just was told something to the effect that POI's and the distance you manually enter in POI Loader, are not based on a radius. Instead, they will only work by distance if you are on the exact road the POI happens to reside.

So in other words, if the POI is located on a short side road, of a main road, no matter how long of a warning you would like, it's irrelevant? I'd appreciate folks feedback on this please.

Thanks

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Correct. Here's a page which discusses alerts. http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6764 The pertinent paragraph is titled "Alert Implementations". If you want a true radius alert, save the POI as a tourguide.

Now this is going to be real

Now this is going to be real strange then. Referring again to this HD Dealer locations which for the local dealer only work while on the same street, just yesterday I was on my way to a meeting nearer ino towards Chicago and suddenly, I got a local HD Dealer alert - which was a more than a few turns away?

Now, I've looked at the file and both location records look to be the same, but each work differently.

For anyone familiar, the two I'm talking about are City Limits on Rand and Chicago in Glenview. The former only alerts while on Rand, while Chicago alerted while I was two miles south of Willow on Sanders.

Strange??

Anyone?

Anyone?

Check out Gary Hayman's page

Check out Gary Hayman's page it works perfect. You need to set it up as a tourguide

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/pagepoi.04.htm#...

Maybe you have your alert

Maybe you have your alert setup as a "TourGuide", which is indeed a radius proximity. If not, that's teh alert you should use since you might not be on the same street but still want an alert.

I use "TourGuide" to alert me about Cracker Barrel restaurants that are of course never located (nor have a physical address) on the Interstate highway, but instead off the Interstate. Using "TourGuide" set for a radius of 2 miles always assures me when I get inside a two mile radius.

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