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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject:
Hi
If I am not mistaken, the camping POI locations on the Navman have a large number of Caravan Club Site locations. I am not saying all, but the ones we have been to, work out to be the Caravan Club Sites. As we are members we tend to use CC sites in the UK.
I understand where you are coming from; a lot of French campsites are giving their location in Log & Lat, as well as address.
I have just tried it out; our first trip of the season will be Woodstock Oxfordshire. Having located Woodstock on GPS, it comes up with: Blandon Chains CC site, Bo-Peep Farm & Burford, these are the POI’s that come up when you select nearest POI, Camping.
The only ways around it that I have found, is to find your approximate location, town, post code. Then tap the screen, the crosshairs which will give you a box with Log & Lat. Using the toggle button, you can then navigate to your setting, tap screen and save as favourite. It is a bit long winded? Or in the navigate screens tap go to, POI’s, camping, then scroll through the 99 A to Z sites that it gives you. I would use the first method, as I have found doing it the second way is a bit hap hazardous.
But if anyone has come up with a better solution let us into the secret.
Regards
DRP _________________ Sharing information is the key to a better understanding
Joined: Feb 10, 2005 Posts: 1951 Location: Mostly somewhere in Essex
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject:
DRP wrote:
Hi ..................
I understand where you are coming from; a lot of French campsites are giving their location in Log & Lat, as well as address......................................DRP
As far as those Caravan sites in Europe, which are recommended by the Caravan Club, are concerned, my job is to inspect them. One question I am asked is what are the Lat/Long coordinates of the site. So, gradually, sites that appear in the guide may have that information.
As far as your suggestions to navigate to the coordinates is concerned, I don't have a better method. Of course the method will differ slightly from one Navman device to another but essentially there is not much difference, we just await the introduction of the 'coordinates' option being supplied as a choice on our devices in the future. Or not _________________ Gee-Pee
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Hi
If I am not mistaken, the camping POI locations on the Navman have a large number of Caravan Club Site locations. I am not saying all, but the ones we have been to, work out to be the Caravan Club Sites. As we are members we tend to use CC sites in the UK.
I understand where you are coming from; a lot of French campsites are giving their location in Log & Lat, as well as address.
I have just tried it out; our first trip of the season will be Woodstock Oxfordshire. Having located Woodstock on GPS, it comes up with: Blandon Chains CC site, Bo-Peep Farm & Burford, these are the POI’s that come up when you select nearest POI, Camping.
The only ways around it that I have found, is to find your approximate location, town, post code. Then tap the screen, the crosshairs which will give you a box with Log & Lat. Using the toggle button, you can then navigate to your setting, tap screen and save as favourite. It is a bit long winded? Or in the navigate screens tap go to, POI’s, camping, then scroll through the 99 A to Z sites that it gives you. I would use the first method, as I have found doing it the second way is a bit hap hazardous.
But if anyone has come up with a better solution let us into the secret.
Regards
DRP
Thanks for that, I have been entering lat/long into into Autoroute, and doing the same as you say.
It works but yes, a long way round, considering the Laptop GPS reciever (Ebay about £30) as Autoroute 2007 seems very 'useable'
Never mind, as thy say: where there's a will there's way !!
Cheers
AT
Here's an idea. Some web based mapping programs have lat/long search options like Streetmap Here
I'm sure there are others like it, but at least it could give you a reference point. _________________ Dom
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:
Hi AfterTime
I purchased my Autoroute 2007 kit with Microsoft 500 GPS reciever, from PC World, for £69 early in January.
It is basic compared with my 510, no rerouting. Having direction up, takes some getting used to.
We use it as a substitute for paper maps. As a bonus the laptop can play DVD’s, CD’s, so with the aid of a pair of powered speakers it becomes an entertainments system. You can also get a free view system for the PC, that’s if you want to watch TV.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:
Hi Gee Pee
Reading between the lines, Navpix must work on a Log/Lat code. You take the picture, it encodes the Log/Lat coordinates. As it has to have GPS connection before you can take the picture.
So why not have an input for Log/Lat as well as an image.
Regards
DRP _________________ Sharing information is the key to a better understanding
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject:
Hi another problem.
It is getting quite common to give Log/Lat coordinates as a decimal (XXX.XXX) instead of Degrees, Min, Sec. if GPS is to go this way, there would be a lot of confusion, with format.
Regards
DRP _________________ Sharing information is the key to a better understanding
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject:
Hi anyone interested.
Found this formula. On the web
Decimal degrees = whole number of degrees, plus minutes divided by 60, plus seconds divided by 3600.
Hope they incorporate a converter?
Regards
DRP _________________ Sharing information is the key to a better understanding
On the latest navman devices you can choose between decimal or min/sec.
It's in the mesurment settings.
PGPSW has been using the decimal locations for thier camera database for ages. I assume it is because it is better read on the database for all gps systems that way.
Thanks for the conversion DRP, I'm storing that one for future reference. _________________ Dom
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Navigon 7310/iPhone Navigon&Copilot
Joined: Feb 10, 2005 Posts: 1951 Location: Mostly somewhere in Essex
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:15 am Post subject:
DRP wrote:
Hi anyone interested.
Found this formula. On the web
Decimal degrees = whole number of degrees, plus minutes divided by 60, plus seconds divided by 3600.
Hope they incorporate a converter?
Regards
DRP
Hi DRP
If I need to convert coordinates, I use this site HERE _________________ Gee-Pee
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:13 am Post subject:
DRP wrote:
Hi Gee Pee
Reading between the lines, Navpix must work on a Log/Lat code. You take the picture, it encodes the Log/Lat coordinates. As it has to have GPS connection before you can take the picture.
So why not have an input for Log/Lat as well as an image.
Regards
DRP
Not quite true. You can take a picture without having a GPS fix (I assume that's what you mean by connection) but of course the picture will not have the position data embedded. You can add that data later, though, using the facility on Navman's website. _________________ Tim
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:
Hi all
Thanks Gee Pee, found your site long time ago and there are loads out there. I the person that I am wanted to know how, not simply input, click, answer. I must confess, I use one similar.
Mostdom my 510 has the conversion, but what I mean is, if I had the ability to input Log/Lat, have a check box for either input.
Regards
DRP _________________ Sharing information is the key to a better understanding
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