[Shop-talk] gps to find the shop

[Douglas Braun]

Do you know if in Android/Goodle it is possible to associate a
specific location with a contact so
you can reliably navigate to it?  If on my Droid X I do "navigate to
Aunt Eunice", it looks up
Aunt Eunice's street address in the contacts, and then Google tries to
determine the actual location
of that address.  And it may or may not get it right.

I used to have a Garmin iQue (a Palm with GPS and customized apps),
and it let you store
that actual Lat/Lon of a contact.  It also let you add your current
GPS location to the contacts.

Doug

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:01 PM, David Hillman <hillman at planet-torque.com>
wrote:

>
>   Do you have a cell phone?  If so, don't bother with a GPS.  My phone came
> with two GPS navigation apps, and the Google version actually works ( the
> Sprint app is useless ).  It's just as good as any dedicated device I've
> seen, way more convenient, and essentially free.  My phone is admittedly a
> little high-end ( HTC Evo ), but even much cheaper phones will run the same
> app.
>
>   I type in the address, and it plots the route and tells me when to turn.
>  Theoretically, it can even do speech recognition, but that's about
useless.
>  I tried to tell it my sister's address in Cleveland, and it heard "3245
> South Africa" or "3245 Hungary".  Seriously?  Driving directions from
> Illinois to South Africa?
>
>   My wife has a Tom-Tom.  Easy enough to use, but she rarely does, because
> it's stowed away in the glovebox.
>
> --
>  David Hillman
> _______________________________________________
>
> Shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Suggested annual donation  $12.96
> Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
> Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
> Unsubscribe/Manage:
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/shop-talk/doug@dougbraun.com