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pauljmuk Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 59
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: Postcode search with no house number? |
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Having trouble with my I3 - I bought it cos my job needs me to make a lot of journeys to factories and industrial sites.
Each of these have postcodes, but never a house number. I can plug in the code, but what about the number. Leaving it blank and hitting "done" does nothing. If I enter a random number it points to a variety of locations around where i want to go, but not to it.
Surely this is an obvious problem, and I'm being thick? |
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ninjagaiden Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 02, 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Cambridge
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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I had similar issue with setting destination to a hospital address. Hospital has postcode but no street number. I typed in postcode and just entered 1 for house number.
It came up with a funny name for the location, which I renamed. Running the navigation worked without a hitch. Obviously this did not work in your case 8-(
Alternative is to add location each time you visit a factory by storing current location, and you'll build up database of locations each time you visit a factory, or you could use streetmap to locate factories ahead of time, and use coordinate conversion to read off coordinates to load as points of interest.
I agree neither of these is very satisfactory |
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ps73uk Regular Visitor
Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 116
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hitting 0 for the house number will sometimes work, the problem is this will only work about 3-5 times them will cause it's own problems, with the Garmin just constantly taking you back to the last postcode you entered, more info on that here:
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mpet Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 26, 2005 Posts: 3
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Having only just got my unit, I've not yet tried this, butwould there be a similar problem with roads that only have house names. My Brother-in-law lives up a country lane where all the houses have names. If entering 0 causes problems and there are no valid house numbers what would you enter? |
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zogman Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 1417 Location: swindon uk
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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its been mentioned on this forum that postcodes generally have a .3 mile coverage area.. clicking '0' as ps73uk suggested,does work and once the said location has been found you can add it to favorites.. |
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pauljmuk Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but its also being reported that doing so several times will cause a malfunction.
Come to think of it, I know a couple of people who dont have house numbers. Also, my office has no number, and is in the middle of knowhere. I tried the postcode, and used a variety of numbers from 0 to 9, and never was it close to my work. |
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