CAR park INFO

seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

Is there any pre installed.

I can find all the other stuff but when looking for a car park today in Madchester -no trace apart from street name ( which fortunately I knew)which is not always useful when you are looking for some where to park in an unfamiliar city. Sad

zogman · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

no poi's for carparks i'm afraid...but most towns and cities have well posted 'p' signs for designated parking areas..
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seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

and street signs as well so why bother with Sat Nav at all. Thanks for your help.

seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

My previous SAT Nav - Via Michelin had all the car parks installed so I am going to add this to the thread. about wish lists.

zogman · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:

i stand corrected, just looked on my i3 and parking is indeed shown ..but i dont think you are able to navigate to it ,it just shows up as an icon whilst you are travelling...
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zogman · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

confirmed in map mode only , not in navigation mode.
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Skippy · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

zogman · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

looked through the menu skippy and i cant find the car park locations any where...maybe fresh eyes!..
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PeeBee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 03, 2005 Posts: 12

If you locate your destination and then look up 'nearby' you can select a car park (if there is one nearby) and the i3 will take you to the car park - magic!

PB

seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

Indeed it does. Thankyou

For those others Car Parks show up on the list as street names Laughing

dougconran · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject:

1. MaFt's POIs have NCP car parks but I don't know how comprehensive it is as the closest one to me is more than 40 miles away which is surprising.

2. I've just tried doing what PeeBee suggested but I don't get any car park option although there are several within a distance of about 1/2 mile. How are car parks identified and how far does 'nearby' stretch to?

seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

I tried doing as PB said on the enquiry I had for Manchester today. The car parks came up as Street names e.g. King Street West Market Place etc.

I have tried this for other towns and this seems to be the case also. Sometimes they come up as Carparking - a bit hit and miss I know but they are there.

seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

Sorry forgot to tell you how to do it.

Go to location (address)

Then find nearby

then Food hotels and more

then spell name and they should be in there somewhere - not ideal but workable.

Get on the thread and suggest it as an uopdate - the more the merrier.

seasider · Lifetime Member Joined: May 07, 2005 Posts: 23

just ound if you go to spell and then put in parking they all come up :o :o :o :o [/quote]

pushandpull · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:53 am Post subject:

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Click "where to?"
Select "Food Hotels & more"
Click on "Spell Name"
Type in "Parki"
At this point you'll get several screenfulls of "Parking" where each one is a car park. in order of nearest to your present position.

Unfortunately, cannot see any way to actually programme a route to a particular car park unless you know the address of same.
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