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This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

As the Subject line says - can this be done?

We just got a 2015 Ford Flex with factory-installed GPS for my wife. We had no need for the factory GPS, as my TomTom does everything I want, but the only way to get some other features that my wife demanded was to get a "package" that included the GPS.

Do not blame Google Maps when you tear down the wrong house! Talk about an issue matching an address with a geo-position.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/25/11306410/google-maps-error...
Mark

Few day ago Apple released a new update ios 9.3 -the update will fail on all I phone 5s-i pad and belows-Do not update if you try you will get the messages that the installation verification fail cause you are not connected to the internet even if you are-same it go if you use wi-fi- Your phone it maybe in a state that you will not be able to use it all.

OK this is not a RLC or POI, any body can tell me about the Gallbladder Surgery, just the Doctor want to remove my...
How bad is?

Anybody else *not* seeing an indicator that one of their Favourite Files has been updated?

This has been hit & miss for me for a couple of months, but appears to be happening more often than not.

I have to check the date, and think about when I last logged-in and whether I had already downloaded.

Hi all,

This what I want to accomplish:
In a POI-file find the waypoints that are within a certain distance away from a central point (most of the time that would my home). This would be a way to find destinations suitable for a daytrip, so the distance would be in the order of 100-150 miles. I would also like to extract those entries to a new file.

This week we are recognizing, pb46!

Pb46 has been a member of POI Factory for over three years. He doesn’t maintain a lot of files and isn’t always the first to solve a new issue in the forums.
However, he is consistently on my radar as one of the people who spends a great deal of time on our site. I won’t say he reads every new post, but it might be pretty close.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

This week we are recognizing charlesd45!

Link to story on 9to5mac:

http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/14/tomtom-go-mobile-app-free/

/JCA

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

Can anyone suggest a simple Text to Speech program? I used to use the AT & T lab demo program, but it is no longer available for free.

I want to create periodic .wav files to announce things like "Rest Area Ahead", "Toll Booth Ahead" etc. The AT&T demo had a number of male and female voices, was and had a spot to type some simple text. You could save as MP3 or .wav.

http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/03/09/new-gps-satellite-begin...

do you have unlimited data? How much data does your navigation usually use in the course of a month. My girlfriend and I share 3gb of data per month. That is more than enough for her to use the Square and post items for sale online for her business. I rarely need to use data. I cannot imagine using the smartphone to navigate would be data friendly but have no personal knowledge.

TIA

Ted

This week we are recognizing, mahoney!

With nine plus years as an active general maintainer and two COY’s, it’s difficult to find something to say about Mahoney that has not been said.
I stopped counting the number of files he maintains because it was making me dizzy, not to mention the colossal task he took on at the start of this year, maintaining the Rest Areas Combined file.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

(John steps up on his soapbox)
Last night I watched a segment on the ABC News about "Ransomware" - where malicious code gets on your computer and encrypts files and then informs you that you can only gets these files back by paying a ransom.

This is the official POI Factory Joke thread.

It will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

Please read the forum rules before posting.

"POI Factory is not a forum for politically charged debate.
Let's avoid topics that already have a long list of Democrat or Republican talking points or that name specific politicians."

~Angela

In danger of losing your windmill?

Maybe you can share the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you used it to seek out special places to go (like Thai Food, ice cream shoppes, etc.).

Anything to keep your windmill alive.

This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

~Angela