Wrong position on road for Home Postcode ?

[jonno2004]

Hi All, as a very new user to TomTom 5 Nav software, I'm a little confused about my home Postcode. Basically it thinks that my house/home is at the wrong end of the road, so it always says I'm some 200mtrs away! Is there any way of telling the software that i live in the correct place or is it best just to use the 'crossing' function ?
Thanks for any replies in advance.
John

[Ako]

This may not solve it but may get around the problem. Drive to your house with the nav program running and when you get there save your current position as home.

Dave
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[Oldboy]

[Ako]

That depends on what software you're using . Or maybe he could tell you when he invites you.

Dave
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[Oldboy]

Try creating a new category, saving the location to it, and emailing any visitors (with sat nav) the POI file. POIConverter can change it as necessary.

Navigation to the front gate.
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[neil01]

Thinking a little laterally, I wonder how long it will be before people start adding lattitude and longditude to their addresses. These can often be added directly to the various navigators, or converted to a suitable format by various freeware utilities.

Just to point out, while 7 digit postcodes are a great help, they do tend to refer to a number of houses, so without a house number you can only be directed to the area (unless of course you are going to the actual position it uses)

It is many years since I worked on systems using postcodes, but if I remember correctly, some of them (especially those for businesses or institutions) don't refer to their actual location, but to the location of the PO Box, so don't be suprised if you find that the poscode after a PO Box address isn't found - this woul be the correct action.

I would also imagine that since the Postcode file and the map data are from separate sources, they are never totally in sync, and that to prevent a system crash if the street is not found, the postcode location is simply a single co-ordinate which appears on the map. On new properties, I would quite expect it to be in the middle of a field.

[jonno2004]

Well thank you very much for all those answers, i'll try the standing at the gate test a little later. As for the bacon sarrny, maybe next time

[PaulSB]

[neil01]

As I said 'if I remember correctly', but that aside, I was dealing with very large businesses and institutions which often had multiple premises. While I do not dispute the fact that your POBox was the same postcode as your home, for many of these businesses or institutions, the place you would visit was often not the same as the location for the office.

The point I was trying to make was that the Post Code for a PO Box MAY be unreliable, sorry I should have been clearer.

[mugwump]

I believe you are indeed correct.

Take the Savoy Hotel London as an example. The Savoys own website lists its postcode as WC2R 0EU. This is a PO Box and some sat navs / streetmap.co.uk dont resolve this to the actual position of the hotel though they will get you closeish (because they will at least get you to WC2R!).

The *actual* postcode for the Savoy (if you want to navigate there) is WC2R 0BP.
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