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~Angela

My wife has a problem with spatial navigation -- she gets lost readily. I've just bought her a Garmin automotive GPS for our car, hoping that might help. Anyhow, I was just doing some background reading, and I ran across an article that I thought might interest you all. It's about a conjectured link between use of GPS devices and loss of cognitive function in old age.

The westbound brisge over Davis Canyon, southeast of Tucson, along I-10 will be replaced soon. Westbound traffic will be subject to a 67 mile detour and about a 2 hour increase in travel time.
Not sure when this will begin or how long it will take.

http://tucson.com/news/local/article_eda71817-a1f7-5f62-8f54...

This week we are recognizing, ajasaro!
Ajasaro has been a member of POI Factory for over eight years. He maintains many files, including the popular and recently updated, National Parks, Monuments, Preserves & Historical Parks 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

France and the families of all who were affected by the events of Friday night.

I spotted this new little $99 PC in the news a couple weeks ago:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=83-722-001

It's a tiny "desktop" PC that includes Windows 10 and is about the size of a large smartphone.

Seems to belong somewhere near the same neighborhood as a "stick PC" or maybe a Raspberry Pi; add your own display, keyboard and mouse.

Good day

Can anyone point me to any resources they found useful in explaining datums ? And/or a conversion utility between them ?

I have several years of data from the mid-90's that reference NAD27 as my hardcopy maps at the time were based on NAD27 and I setup the GPS (a Garmin 45XL) the same. These days I use WGS84 on the new units.

This week we’re recognizing Bayou Navigator, for his
GPS Hacking Concerns U.S. Navy Enough To Resume Teaching Celestial Nav? thread.
He actually started it the previous week, but I thought it provided an interesting forum discussion and I liked how he continued participate in the discussion after the original post.

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

I must have read somewhere (perhaps here) that the Here app has a speed alert option. I tried it with a setting of +6 where the speed limit is up to 50mph and a setting of +8 where the speed limit is above 50mph.

This week we are recognizing, mgarledge!

Mary has been a member of POI Factory for over six years!

Last week she was our top forum poster. She isn’t afraid to ask questions and engage with the community in problem solving issues or just exploring a variety of topics.

Thanks for all you do, Mary, we appreciate you!

~Angela

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

After reading about the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt while on its way to St. Petersburg, Russia, I used Google Earth to look at the St. Petersburg airport. What am I seeing?

59.800437,30.265934

Phil

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.

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~Angela

This is the official POI Factory Joke thread.

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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

Hey Guys Names Jeff I am a Ghost Hunter with Grave Concerns Paranormal and New Mexico Paranormal . We need places to Investigate . If any of you know of any places we may be able to get access to legally, could you please me let me know .
our email address is graveconcernsparanormal@gmail.com or NMPA575@gmail.com

Anyone has a Prius and will share their top mileage per tank? Today I sat in one and saw 774 miles per tank!!!
The best I have is 549. How is that even possible to obtain 774. Anyone else came close to 700?

This week we are recognizing, Diesel!

Diesel has been a member of POI Factory for over 8 years.

He’s a frequent contributor to the forums and keeps us informed on the Garmin Express for Mac updates.

Thanks for all you do, Diesel!

~Angela

It's not that important to me where they're made, provided they are made well.

However, there seems to be one exception--oil filters. Reason being they are important devices. My preference would be Germany, Japan, USA, in that order. The problem is many of them retain their German, Japanese, or American brand names, packaging, etc., and are produced now in other countries.