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The map shows you the distribution of the businesses across the city. If you are curious what a particular point is, click on it, and it will take you to the point in the list where that business is listed. To go back, use your browsers BACK button.
The BlackBerry browser is broken and wont tell me where you clicked and does not support positioning - even in desktop mode. They want me to pay them to even let them know they have a problem! So until I figure out a workaround, not even this works on that browser. Anyway, the small form factor of a handheld will need a different UI.
You no longer need to click on the point to get to the listing - just positioning it over the point gets you a listing. The interesting streets should be pretty obvious, especially if you run your cursor along a line of points. You can still click on the point - sometimes there is more than one business at the same address - you will go to the right spot in the listing, with the corresponding ones highlighted.
If you want to know where a particular business is, use the browsers FIND function to find the business in the listing.
Click on that, and you will be taken back to the map, with a 
next to it. Or you can use the "search"
described below.
OK - you found restaurant row, but there are way too many restaurants to tell them apart. Draw a rectangle
(click down on one corner, then click on the opposite corner) around the cluttered space and click on the
button, and the map will expand that space
to fill the whole map area. Everything will work the same within this space. If you dont like the selection indicated
by the dotted rectangle, click once to make the rectangle go away and start over.
If you use the star function to find a place
that is outside this space, everything will shrink back. You can also revert back to the full map by clicking on the
button when there is no dotted rectangle.
Lots of anonymous points - but where are all the McDonalds? Click on the magnifying glass
- a box will appear to let you
type in a chunk of what you are looking for, and then you can highlight every point that contains that chunk in its name or
address. You can use this to get an idea of where a ZIP code is by just typing in the ZIP code. Or type in the street name
and all the points on that street light up so you know how the street goes.
Because "McDonalds" could be "Mac Donalds" or "Mcdonald" you want to use a chunk of text that
works for all of them without getting too much other stuff - like "onald".
Hopefully, you should be able to carry around the information and use it off-line while you are not connected as well - by
using the "Favorites" feature of your browser.
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