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Satsman
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: When I search for a particular POI using TomTom |
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I get some odd results. I was looking for Woolworths, using just the first three letters and it found 'Ruth Wood', 'Timothy I ellwood', 'Morewood, aj' etc.
These look like people's names to me. Any idea why they would be on there?
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Anita
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Doctors, dentists, plumbers, hairdressers . . . just for starters?
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Satsman
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Anita wrote: | | Doctors, dentists, plumbers, hairdressers . . . just for starters? |
Hmm, quite possibly. When I selected them, there was no clue as to what they are though. |
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like you must be doing your search across ALL categories.
The fact "there's no clue as to what they are" makes sense if you think of it from the other way.
If you selected the "Doctors" category, you would expect to see a list of names, it would be annoying to have "Doctor" stuck on the front of every entry.
So to get back to your problem, you need to select a category first before doing your word search. |
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Anita
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Satsman wrote: | | When I selected them, there was no clue as to what they are though. |
Do you not get an icon next to the name in the list, and on the map when you select one of them?
Although I must admit that isn't always a great help in determining which category they fall into!
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