Dear Tom, You wrote: "One thing that would be really nice and could speed the location process up tremendously is the ability to type in the first character of a city or street name and get close to what you want that way, then scroll until you find it. Is that being considered?"
Actually, this is currently possible with GPS V2. While using either Space with S or Control with S for address lookup, the state, city, and street name prompts will all accept single letter input. Note that BT users should precede their single letter with a letter sign which is standard throughout Keysoft. Regards, ---------------------------------------- Dan Brown Technical Support Pulse Data HumanWare Phone: (925) 681-4636 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lange Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:37 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] GPS 2 Comments & Investigation Hi Maurice, You wrote: > > Because the database of city names and streets is vast, typing in the names > can lead to the message that no such name exists, simply because the > spelling or punctuation of the entry in the database differs slightly from > that typed in. In such instances you are better to scroll through the > cities, or streets within a city, to locate the troublesome location. > Sighted folks have exactly the same problem when referring to a printed map > index, in that their perceived spelling of the name doesn't match how it > actually is spelt, so they also often resort to visually scrolling through > the map index. To add to the confusion, there will inevitably be some > database entries that are incorrectly spelt, so a certain amount of > detective work comes with the territory. We realise that to scroll through > the complete list of streets in a city can be time consuming, and as with > all aspects of KeySoft we will look at possible ways this can be enhanced. Thanks, that would be great. One thing that would be really nice and could speed the location process up tremendously is the ability to type in the first character of a city or street name and get close to what you want that way, then scroll until you find it. Is that being considered? Tom ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
