TomTom question

Well done Shawsie that worked ,
onya,
Dave

Sorry, I should have said this is from my instruction cd which is now about 12 months old.

tg

Yes I understand Terry , that was actually the point of my post you see I dont want a street or number just the place , its a caravan site so theres no real street no; I've tried looking in the POI caravan sites but its not listed so I thought a postcode would be the go, never mind thanks for the input anyway guys and gals,
its always appreciated, off to Denham tommorrow regardless,
best wishes,
Dave

yeah - I've found that too - but how difficult is it to count down about five houses away?

Hi Babs,
I don't have a Tom Tom, but my Garmin is also sometimes inaccurate on street numbers. This from what I have been told is due to discrepencies in the data obtained from Councils as to street numbers as opposed to the original Lot numbers of a block of land. I don't worry too much about the numbers, as long as I get to the correct street. My street number isn't even recognised at all, it offers the number across the road or a couple of doors further up the road, probably due to it being a vacant block until recently.
Hope this sheds some light on your little gripe. I can't imagine someone driving around all the streets and taking GPS coordinates of every house and the street number, can you? haha

Shane

Actually this is exactly what Navtek claim they are doing...Driving every street in Australian cities to update their maps.

TomTom and Destinator use Sensis maps and CoPilot use the Navtek maps...Not sure where Garmin and all of the other brands get their maps from though..

Peter

Sorry to hear that Tom Tom is not giving accurate info in Oz.
We're living in Switzerland these days and are using the Tom Tom we bought when living in California (pre-loaded with US & European data) and it's amazingly accurate, for Europe anyway - even warns of red light & speed cameras (fixed, of course).
I guess the software / data they've obtained for Oz is letting you down.
DickyBeach

The crappy unit it is tells you to do U turns at traffic lights, it misses on-off ramps, no doubt about it its crap.

Well then again, you get exactly what you pay for, I keep telling people this, I should have listened to my own advice.

my job involves house visits and the amount of times Iv'e entered a house number that it says does not exist, I have lost count of. Even in older established areas where the house has been standing for donkey's years.

Interesting about U-turns at traffic lights, we've chosen "Ken" as the voice and he tells us "where possible make a legal U-turn". Maybe different software releases?
DB