---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike xxx Date: May 7, 2006 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Regarding your inquiry at the IN-N-OUT Burger(r) Web Site / Adding GPSr Coordinates to your Maps To: Customer Service Cc: scottxxx@xxx.com, brfinxxx@xxx.ca.us Stephanie, et al I never did hear back from you on the out-dated guides. Not surprised but I'd like to press on in a related matter. The guides are handy but I use a GPSr (Global Positioning Satellite Receiver) to map my travels. As I love INO I have 84 of your stores plugged into my GPRr's already to help find the closest store when I travel around the state. Much handier than the guide. While I'm sure that the guides are used by more people, I think it would be handy for a portion (and growing) of the traveling public. I'd be willing to finish out my listing INO waypoints and pass them over to INO for publication on your website for your customers. This is quite a bit of work to create, annotate and confirm this set of waypoints but I already have much of the work done. I will publish this list independently on my website if you guys are not interested. I will make them available in several of the very common forms for use in most of the GPSr manufacturers software. I've attached an Excel file of the GPSr file so that you guys can see what it looks like in a format that you are likely more familiar. Your point to point guide on your website is OK if you happen to be home and you know that in 3 hours that you will be in Barstow and you will be hungry and you want INO. If you use your Locations page, you need to print out the next page for the actual address and area map. This would be hundreds of pages if folks wanted all the information that is in most GPSr mapping databases. But INO stops are more likely spontaneous and the GPSr allows you to find the closest store or the next store along your mapped route on the fly, especially valuable if you are traveling unfamiliar area. It is incredibly easy when you have the INO waypoints pre-loaded. And that pre-loading is the key to this wonderful convenience. At the very least, Lat/Long coordinates should be added to addresses on you on line maps. It was not long ago that email and website URL's were missing from business, ads, and billboards. But they are there now and GPSr technology is fast approaching acceptance as the prices are getting down well below the cost of an iPod. While the benefit of this list may not be apparent to one who has never used GPSr travel, I assure you that if you send this email to someone in the corporation who deals in the area of mapping your stores, they should readily embrace the idea, at least in concept. Much like the hidden menu items, unless one goes to your site or has a long time insightful friend who introduced him to INO and the Animal many years ago, you just miss out in some of the very cool items out there in life. I will put up a set of pages for this demo project shortly to provide a better idea of what my idea would provide at: http://www.otwc.net/pub/ino <<>> Best Regards, Mike, La Mesa CA On 1/21/06, Customer Service < CService@innout.com> wrote: Dear Mr. Mike Shirley: Thank you for your e-mail. It is always nice to hear from our customers! Thank you, too, for your feedback concerning our Web Site. I have forwarded your e-mail to our Web Site Manager. I am glad you are able to access an updated list of our store locations. It seems that the store you received the location guide from has some outdated guides. I will look into that. Thank you again for contacting us. Sincerely, Stephanie Hagerman Customer Service Representative ===================================================== FOLLOW-UP to my Email: I should have searched the net a bit more for this idea as I found someone else who has 203 stores in a very nicely annotated file ready to drop into most GPSr's. I believe it to be: Bruce Finxxx DAVIS CA (xxx)xxx-xxxx brfinxxx@xxx.ca.us I think this is his file: http://www.advrider.com/forums/attachment.php?s=7ec2afcfacbcc3cc66e0503eeefd1e47&attachmentid=71354&d=1145154805 I first saw it mentioned in his post on AdRider: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131671 [Email addresses munged to protect for the guilty and the innocent]