Destination definition in Australia

[rkm_hm]

Could someone who has used a GPS in Australia please tell me the best way of defining a destination.

In the UK, as we know, the 7-character postcode is the de-facto standard, and pinpoints the location of a small cluster of properties. If a GPS takes you to the centre of a postcode area, you're usually within spitting distance of the building you're looking for.

My impression of Australian postal codes is that they are 4 numeric digits, with each code covering a large geographic area - maybe the size of an English county. So, to quote a fictitions example, being dumped in the middle of Borsetshire wouldn't be much help in locating Brookfield Farm, Ambridge!

So do Australians simply have to rely on town and street address - or is there a better system? [When I bought my first TTG, that didn't know about postcodes, and often got locations wrong when there were, for example, more than one road called "High Street" in relatively close proximity].
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Roger
TomTom via135

Satmap Active 10+ v1.50 with full UK 1:50k map and 1:25k/1:10k County maps of Hampshire & Warwickshire

[Andy_P]

[GerryC]

Most countries don't have a fully coded system - the only ones I can think of that do is the UK and possibly the Netherlands. Even the USA's ZIP codes are for big areas. These are really for the local postal services use and the UK is unusual in that we use it for almost anything.

So yes, city, road, number is the normal way to identify an address. If you're going to somewhere in the Outback, they may even know the co-ordinates to put into a sat-nav.
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Gerry
TomTom730T
Cameralert for Android
Brodit ProClip mount

[dhn]

In fact, the US system IS fully coded. A zip code really is 5 numbers, then a dash, followed by 4 more numbers. That gets you to the correct house (or range of houses on a street). It's just that the latter 4 numbers are rarely used when people use the zip codes.

In Canada, the format is ANA NAN which gets you to the proper street and a range of houses. Unfortunately, for Canadian maps, TomTom just provides the first three characters (ANA) which renders the functionality useless.
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David

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