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jonno2004 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: Wrong position on road for Home Postcode ? |
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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.
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Ako Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 28, 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Holux231, XDAII Copilot 6, 1Gb Lexar SD Card |
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Ako wrote: | 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 |
Or stand at your front gate and do the same. _________________ Richard
TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1135 |
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Ako Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 28, 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:44 am Post subject: |
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That depends on what software you're using . Or maybe he could tell you when he invites you.
Dave _________________ Holux231, XDAII Copilot 6, 1Gb Lexar SD Card |
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Richard
TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1135 |
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neil01 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 06, 2005 Posts: 902 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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jonno2004 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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PaulSB Occasional Visitor
Joined: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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neil01 wrote: | 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.
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I have a PO Box for an organisation I help to run and the postcode is the same as my home address. When I queried this with the post office it was explained the post code is used to identify me as the addressee but instead of delivering the mail they simply sort it into the the PO Box (well it's a filing cabinet in fact!).
While I'm not an expert I'm not sure Neil's point is correct. |
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neil01 Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 06, 2005 Posts: 902 Location: Leeds
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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mugwump Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 11, 2005 Posts: 54
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Apologies to all my supporting users, the http://ukpostcodes.boldlygoingnowhere.org/ postcode converter has now been retired.
The ubiquity of full postcode lookups has made it somewhat redundant. I still have the code if anyone needs it. |
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