Well, actually, I'd never really thought of using it to locate a car in a parking lot, but my wife often goes shopping with a friend who often looses track of where she put the car. I'll have to suggest to Vicky that she give it a try.
Don On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:01:45 -0800, Peggy Kern wrote: Cool. I'm just trying to think of all possible uses for the GPS, especially ones that would help the sightlings in my life. <smile> Peggy At 11:49 PM 1/31/2004 -0800, you wrote: >Peggy, >There is definitely a way to do this. Just how effective this would be in >locating the car probably depends on just how good a signal you're getting >from the >satellites, but you can definitely create your own points of interest, and >setting one to the location of the car can be done. You could then delete >it or >whatever later. >Don >On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:46:08 -0800, Peggy Kern wrote: >Hi, guys. I've got something I'm wondering about, which I want to ask >those of you who have GPS. I don't know if it's possible, but I'm >wondering if a point of interest or something can be set when you're with a >sighted person and they park their car, and you want to mark where they >park their car so you can help them find it. I'm occasionally with sighted >people who, when they park somewhere, forget where that somewhere is, and >I'm wondering if GPS can help them find their car, through the information >we give them about where they parked. Has anyone ever tried this? >Just something this non-GPS user was wondering about. <smile> >Peggy >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac >MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] >___ >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 >___ >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 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.home.earthlink.net/~kernsac MSN Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
