I'd guess it now uses a more international post code limit. 6 rather than
8 characters. The sat nav in my car is the same.
I'd guess it now uses a more international post code limit. 6 rather than
8 characters. The sat nav in my car is the same.
The light at the end of the tunnel ...
I'm not sure if you can tell a Garmin to ignore specific roads (I think that was the Tom Tom) but I'm sure you can tell it to ignore motorways, which would have got out of trouble. Of course, when you were well past the problem area, you could have stopped again and reversed the setting if your journey was much longer.
On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 1:16:09 PM UTC, Terry Casey wrote: starting with rejoining the motorway on the exit I had just taken off.
I was once driving from Warsaw to Vilnius and my Garmin tried to send me through Belarus, but as we did not have visas I had to ignore it.
We changed from TomTom to Garmin and find the latter far better in most ways. The main improvement is map update time, a HUGE improvement, especially as with the one we have you can even do it without a PC- just connect then to your Wi-fi.
Battery life much the same, but we never noticed a problem on the TomTom and run off the car supply most of the time.
Only niggle I have with the Garmin is that I don?t find the destination entry as intuitive as the TomTom was.
We?ve got a normal car one we use in a Smart Car and one designed for Motorhomes, you can but in your vehicle dimensions and it will avoid things like low bridges or width restrictions.
I can look at mine but I have never encountered any difficulty. Do you include or exclude the space between the two parts?
Tried every which way. It stops at six with or without the space.
Well, I have just tried KY15 5HZ without difficulty, and I updated the maps last week.
Are you sure the postcode you are using is valid? I understand it is checked against the database. Are you sure you are set to the UK with a Union flag showing? This can also be checked in settings.
I suggest you try KY15 5HZ. If this does not work, it sounds like your unit is corrupted. You could try factory reset and reinstalling from the MyDrive app. Otherwise, you should contact TomTom support.
Quite. So you can also run a basic phone if you want and use that and the SatNav for anything simultaneously.
I think this is a side effect of 'competition' and having to price match with other brands that some people might buy because of marketing, rather than their ability to do what it says on the tin.
I 'excuse' my Garmin Nuvi <whatever> for not being as tekkie / flexible as my older Garmins because it still does most of what I need in-car very well.
Cheers, T i m
And that auto-rerouting around obstructions (and what distance you would be willing to divert) was enabled?
Cheers, T i m
The main problem is that everyone is competing with mobile phones, so lots of things have gone backwards in technology. Nobody is going to pay £400 for a Nuvicam when they also use a phone, so their range is full of poorer stuff at the £200 price range nowadays.
I-pods are the same. 10 years ago, I bought several 160GB units which they have stopped making as everyone wants music on their phones, even if they can't hold as many songs as the 25000 on my old i-pod.
A bit like Apollo and Concorde!
Surely Moore's Law should enter into this as well?
But if someone also wanted a dedicated dashcam, that would cost?
But as many people have a contract including data, they can get what they want, when they want?
So it seems to me. Like, they don't make the Leatherman PST II any more and neither do they make an equivalent replacement. I'd consider myself as an 'average d-i-y, be prepared type of guy' and so can't see why the toolset on the PST II wouldn't be, for the weight and bulk (especially if worn on a belt), 'optimal' for most?
So why would they stop making such a thing ... unless too many people actually buy the 'latest' *because*, or they need them for a special purpose (like camping or fishing) and so need a different range of tools?
Cheers, T i m
At a cost and then only mainstream stuff. I have 25000 tracks of obscure Krautrock, Dutch prog and other rarities that I nabbed for free off various blogs and sites like Megaupload before they all got pulled. They all reside on a SSD 1TB drive as well as the i-pod just in case the the hard drive on it fails.
I have something like the Leatherman in the car.
Our tunnels are a bit long with various leaving points across the city and if you have never been in them it is not always easy to guess
Tempting as it is to get one device to do everything, you then create a single point of failure.
Also even the beefiest smartphone is going to struggle recording the 2 channels of HD video (as a forward only dashcam is a waste of time)
*plus* do the navigation *plus* be a a media player *plus* still be a phone. And that's before you think about how to site it to be a dashcam, and the unsuitablity of the lenses and ultimately the *point* of a dashcam to start with. To capture footage for future use. You can guarantee a smartphone-dashcam will fail when most needed.I've gone the other way and taken the navigation and media functions
*out* of my phone, and use an old MotoG running LineageOS, plus HERE and PodcastRepublic. Drop it into the glovebox to store. Job done.
Yup.
good idea and plan.
I have a small selection of std tools in the car and I keep the Leatherman on me because 1) I never know when I need it and 2) I'm not always in the car and 3) it's light and compact enough to allow me to do so.
When I thought I'd lost my PST II, daughter, knowing how lost I was without it, bought be the nearest Leatherman replacement (toolset wise) she could find, that was a 'Juice' of some sort. Whilst it was a very kind gesture, it was too bulky to be a daily carry and so I didn't. Luckily we found the PST II (it was in the back of the car, under other stuff) but because of that, I bought a second hand 'spare' from the USA off eBay. Hopefully, having a spare means I won't lose the other one again. ;-)
The thing is, everone who knows me knows I carry it and therefore they too rely on it, especially the daughter. ;-)
We were out dog walking the other day and met a family who were out geocaching with their young boys. They found the cache, a tiny tube with a rolled up paper list in it. They couldn't shake the list out and whilst they were struggling I got the Leatherman out, opened up the fine screwdriver and handed it to them. They were then easily able to extract the roll and commented on 'how well prepared I was. ;-)
Yesterday I used the wide flat blade to get most of the mud out between the tread on my 'walking shoes' before going into a building. Yes, I might have been able to do similar with a stick or somesuch but there wasn't much about and the Leatherman did it perfectly.
Whilst waiting to be prepped for a procedure in hospital the other day, I tightened up some loose screws on the bracket on a TV shelf and straightened out the damaged ally blinds with my pliers. ;-)
I have previously taken the top of the carb of my Bedford CF campervan when it hot some swarf in the float valve and had to use the Leatherman as it was the only tool amongst all I carried that was able to gain access and do the job (undo 4 flat bladed screws on the top and remove the gland nut retaining metal fuel line (I had ring spanners with me but no open enders and an adjustable was to big to get in there)).
Cheers, T i m
Not necessarily - the PostCode for a large vetinary hospital was rejected by my Garmin. Checked using Google maps and it appears that the building has its own PostCode but is surrounded by a parking area. The mapping stops at the entry barrier, so it isn't technically speaking, on any road!
Solution was to change the last letter by one character, which pointed to the main road alongside. When we got there, I stored the location for future reference in case we need to return at any time.
But they don?t fail often enough to matter.
Any decent smartphone can do that fine.
Yeah, it makes more sense to have a fully integrated set of cameras in the car which are parking assist cameras and dashcams when you arent parking and surveillance cameras when the car is parked etc.
Bullshit.
Makes more sense to have the car cameras fully integrated, do everything else on the smartphone and keep the previous one in the glovebox if you are really paranoid about failure.
I have heard of that where there are large volumes of mail and separate postcodes effectively allows Royal Mail to presort incoming mail. However, I understood the postcode had to be tied to one or more 'delivery points' and I assumed a single delivery point would have to be accessible by road. I cannot imagine Postman Pat gets out of his van and walks round all the buildings in the vetinary hospital. It sounds like some sort of mapping area with the postcodes.
By your logic a farm would not have a postcode where the farm track (likely to be a private way) is not included in the Garmin mapping.
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