[Loadstone] Key 5 in NavMod.

[slery]

I'll try that next time.  As I said, we were in a car so we really wanted to
know the up coming street one block a head of us.  We were in a new city and
had no idea of the street layouts.  We had printed map directions from
another source but we needed to know right where we were if the street was
just ahead or if we had one or two blocks.

Perhaps I just do not know how to use virtual mode well enough to use that
in a moving vehicle.

Cindy
  -----Original Message-----
  From: loadstone-bounces at loadstone-gps.com
[mailto:loadstone-bounces at loadstone-gps.com]On Behalf Of Rob Melchers
  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 3:36 AM
  To: loadstone at loadstone-gps.com
  Subject: Re: [Loadstone] Key 5 in NavMod.


  The big (and pleasant) difference between Loadstone and the other
navigators is, that Loadstone tells you where you are by providing the names
of the nearest points around you. It functions as an 'orientation' tool.
Most Loadstone users like it this way, because knowing where you are is the
natural way of navigating. Deciding where you want to go is something most
people do by themselves, but some people prefer to be told to 'turn left' or
turn right' by a machine. Loadstone doesn't do this. In stead, it announces
the point that you are approaching. Determining your position is best done
by querying your close surroundings and that's exactly what the arrow keys
do in Loadstone. However, if you like to 'look ahead', that's only one
keystroke away, just press the '0' key and use the numeric keys to augment
your field of vision. Return to navigation mode by one more '0' key press.

  Rob

  At 4/2/2007, you wrote:

    As far as my experience has been, the up arrow only elicits the up
coming
    street.  I cannot hear the next street until I arrive at this street.  I
    would like to be able to find out if the street I am looking for is one
more
    or two more, etc.  For me, this is not currently happening in navigation
    mode.  If I am in the car, I don't want to be using virtual mode.

    Cindy

    -----Original Message-----
    From: loadstone-bounces at loadstone-gps.com
    [mailto:loadstone-bounces at loadstone-gps.com]On Behalf Of Shawn
    Kirkpatrick
    Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:01 PM
    To: loadstone at loadstone-gps.com
    Subject: Re: [Loadstone] Key 5 in NavMod.


    This is exactly what the up arrow will do. Having a key changing
    functionality would probably be quite confusing.

    On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Gabriel Battaglia wrote:

    > Hi, why don't assign the key number 5, during navigation mode, to
announce
    > the next (or closest) POI in our heading?
    > I know that it works if we have marked some poi but if we haven't
marked,
    it
    > should announce the next point in front of us. I think it could be
very
    > usuful.
    > Thanks.
    >
    > Gabriel.
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