house numbers

[Madkitty]

is there any software out there that you can out the exact house number into and for it to take you right to the front door? I have the postcode overlays for ttn3 but sometimes the house is really difficult to find 8O

[DavidW]

Simply put, no.

The Royal Mail data file for the location of each house number in each postcode is very expensive to licence and rather large too. The licence fees are such that house number and postcode lookups (as opposed to 'plain' postcode lookups) are now a paid for premium service on the likes of multimap.com, and the file size sufficiently large that it would take a very large and expensive storage card.


Most software, including TomTom Navigator, has the position of some house numbers on a road, which is uses to interpolate for approximate positions for the rest. It's not perfect, but it gets you close in most cases. From there on, it's down to your eyesight and a good torch!

Don't forget that if you need to return to an awkward to find place you can add it to a personal POI file once you've got there once or found it by other means.



David

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