Welcome / open talk

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

It's been father and son week so I took my son to a museum downtown and parked in a garage.

The app save me $10, parked for $8 instead of $18.

But interestingly, the app now has a button to open the gate hahahahahahaha

Confusing.

It used to be possible to go from Phila to B'More, and back, no tolls.

The key was a Hatem Bridge annual pass for $10.

I actually only did it once, even though we bought that $10 pass.

It's become rare to be able to bypass tolls but I did it yesterday with my son, since wife is away lol

Went from north Jersey back to PA via Rt. 1, then the Trenton Makes bridge, to I-295 to I95.

Because our work uses LastPass, we got an offer to use it at home for free (separate family account).

Well, I just discovered it's expired!

Kind of scary, I don't think I have to pay $4/mo for my passwords, cuz that would not make sense. I can still log in but it says expired.

I'll find out what's going on tomorrow.

https://www.engadget.com/t-mobile-starlink-partnership-01253...

Does anyone know what governs the need to login? I can go for several days of repeatedly visiting the forums without.a need to login, then suddenly I notice I’m logged out. For example this happened yesterday, I was logged in when I opened the forum link in the morning, and a few hours later when I again checked the forums, I noticed I was logged out and had to go through the login process.

This week we're recognizing, Maddperson!

Maddperson has been a member for a little over 4 years and has been continuing to develop and maintain his collection of POI files and provide BMP's for other files.

Thanks for all you do for our POI Factory community, Maddperson!

~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

Indeed, it looks like version 22H2 will be the biggest Windows 11 update yet. Microsoft has revealed several key features that are on the way, and an early build is already available to try. Here’s everything you need to know.

https://www.techadvisor.com/article/745594/windows-11-22h2-u....

My wife and another woman were traveling by vehicle in northern Minnesota yesterday and I received a text from her stating:

"...Her GPS in truck goofs up on the (Iron) Range. The iron messing with it. Google fine tho..."

Apple disclosed in a security update that some of its iPhones, iPads and Macs had a certain vulnerabilities

Apple released an emergency security update Thursday (2022-08-18), disclosing that there were vulnerabilities for certain iPhone, iPad and Mac products.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apple-discloses-secur...

On the Garmin forum, there's been a discovery of the current reasoning for there being multiple "large" jcv files.

In reading one of the replies in the thread, information was offered as to the what and why...and I've updated my FAQ on the Large JCV file.

This week we're recognizing, Alandb!

Alan's been a member of POI Factory for nearly 14 years!

This week we're recognizing him for his help with maintaining FAQ's.

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're recognizing, Bobkz!

Bobkz has been a member of POI Factory for over 15 years!

Last week he updated his master
Offbeat Tourist Attractions - US POI File, as well as each of the individual state specific POI files!

Thanks for your fun file contributions, Bobkz!

~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

I know there's several on here with later model kia/hyundais/genesis products.

My question, how do I tell it to search for a business name in a different city/state than currently in?

Find "business name" in (near?) "city/state" does not work, nor do variations such as including just the city or state.

Manually typing in the business name works fine, "mobil kenosha"

Suggestions?

Interesting article. Interesting that using GPS is the 2nd method.

See https://simpleflying.com/how-do-airliners-navigate/

I went to Autozone to buy oil for an oil change. I already had the oil filter. I asked the salesman what oil was on sale without the filter. He told me that 5 quarts of oil which was on sale came with a filter and it was $31.99. I asked him what the sale price was without the filter he replied it only comes with the filter on sale.

This week we're recognizing, johnnatash4!

Johnnatash4 has been a member since 2008, passing the 14 year mark just a week ago.

With his recent posts, he's invited us to pause and share our thoughts on a few unusual topics:

• are coincidences more common today?