Welcome / open talk
    13 years
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Chit Chat Thread for the week of February 4, 2013
This is the place to talk about things that are not gps related.
Have fun...
This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.
~Angela
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 13 years
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Monthly GPS Deals/Bargains sticky thread?
Happy Superbowl Eve everyone. I wanted to toss this idea out for discussion.
What do Mods and everyone else think about having a monthly sticky thread for posting GPS related deals and bargains that we may discover in our internet travels?
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17 years
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GPm files
Every time I try to down load a GPM file it wants to open in Microsoft Office while CVX files open in Excel. None of the files that try to open in Office are usable. Anyone know what is going on? I use windows 7
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13 years
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Factory Joke Thread –February 2013
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.
Have fun....
~Angela
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13 years
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Keeping the Windmill Alive - Your last trip? - February 2013
In danger of losing your windmill?
Maybe you can share with us the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you use 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
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16 years
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Best way of routing fastest route real-time? (traffic on my Garmin is useless)
The traffic receiver on my Garmin is horribly stale, or inaccurate. It almost always misses rush hour traffic and if I'm in an area I'm unfamiliar with, the routing to get from point A to point B the fastest way is important.
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17 years
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Now That's a Tour Guide!
A major update to the popular Google Earth tour guide feature for desktop, iOS and Android released Jan. 29. As you navigate in Earth, tour guide acts as a local exploration expert suggesting interesting places near the location you're visiting. Today's update adds over 100,000 new tours of popular sites, cities and places across 200 countries, as well as enhancements to existing tours.
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18 years
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Month of February: Your Favorite Holiday
All Month long:
Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
American Heart Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Canned Food Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
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12 years
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Galileo Whistler GPS
This thing is driving me nuts!!!
It is not user friendly. Can anyone suggest a model that doesn't require a PHD to operate?
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18 years
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Consumer Reports
The March 2013 edition of Consumer Reports has a one page article evaluating Garmin, Tom Tom, & Magellan GPS models.
Not an earthshaking article but one of interest in comparing various models.
Fred
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16 years
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Tire with GPS
Dateline: Arlington Heights IL
So police devised a plan to figure out who was stealing them (tires) from cars on display at Arlington Nissan on Dundee Avenue, authorities said. Investigators fit a spare tire on an SUV with a GPS tracking device, authorities said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/arlington_h...
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18 years
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Latest google maps update - North Korea on Google Maps: Monuments, nuclear complex, gulags
Latest google maps update - Shows North Korea on Google Maps with monuments, nuclear complex, and gulags
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/tech/north-korea-google-maps/i...
The link Below shows the latest North Korea map updates(before & after):
http://google-latlong.blogspot.sg/2013/01/publishing-more-de...
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19 years
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An Odd Scene in Google Maps
GlobeTurtle found this image in Google Maps today. It looks like some sort of police activity involving a stopped big rig truck.
(it takes a couple seconds to load after the empty intersection)
Not something you see every day 
Jonathan (aka JM)
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13 years
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Contributors of the Week 2013-1-21
This week we are recognizing, Norwood!
Norwood is a busy newcomer who’s already contributed four new POI files to the site.
Thank you for your enthusiasm, Norwood, and welcome to POI Factory!
~Angela
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13 years
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Chit Chat Thread for the week of January 28, 2013
This is the place to talk about things that are not gps related.
Have fun...
This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.
~Angela
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17 years
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Looking for a multi-point routing GPS or App
I've been out of the GPS scene for a year or two, due to the type of work I was doing.
Now have a new job which involves a LOT of driving. I'm a field service tech for restaurant equipment.
So when I get called I'd like to be able to input the next location into the unit/app and it figure out where to go to next. There are sometimes 4 or 5 places in the queue.
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15 years
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Trapster vs. Waze, or Both?
I've been wondering what peoples' experiences have been with Trapster and/or Waze, and the pros/cons of one compared to the other. In my non-scientific "tests", I have found them both to be useful sometimes, and both to be useless sometimes.
Contributors of the Week 2013-1-28
This week we are recognizing Box Car!
Box Car is a frequent poster, often one of the first members of our community to respond to new questions and to welcome visitors to our site.
This week he also updated several of the POI files he maintains.