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Tinpusher Occasional Visitor
Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 15 Location: EGTK
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: "here be dragons"- navigating to a map point? |
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Is it possible to select a position from the map, and tell D6 to "navigate to" that point?
By the same token, is it possible to select a point on a map and add it as a favourite?
My mum lives in the middle of nowhere- the postcode isn't recognised and it's about 2/3 of the way along a minor road. I want to add her house into my favourites, and at the moment I can't figure out how to do it. _________________ Home - Dell Axim X51 + BT359 + D6 & MM
Work - IGI CCNS4, Vexcel Ultracam D & Somag GSM3000, X-Treme L1/L2 GPS receiver all shoved into a Piper Chieftain, registration G-OSGB. See the results on http://local.live.com/ |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Most street routing programs will only allow POIs on or close to streets. You'll have to set the POI accordingly.
Report map errors to the map providers - only reporting will help to eventually improve the data. _________________ Lutz
Report Map Errors here:
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Tinpusher Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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How about setting a POI from a lat/long position? How can I do this is D6? _________________ Home - Dell Axim X51 + BT359 + D6 & MM
Work - IGI CCNS4, Vexcel Ultracam D & Somag GSM3000, X-Treme L1/L2 GPS receiver all shoved into a Piper Chieftain, registration G-OSGB. See the results on http://local.live.com/ |
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barryd Frequent Visitor
Joined: Mar 27, 2004 Posts: 285 Location: Cheshire, England
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Assuming you're using a Pocket PC, my free OS GPS Convertor utility will do it:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/barrydavies/index.htm
Be warned that I have never used Destinator, but added in support for it at the request of a user on this forum about 18 months ago, who spent a fair bit of time getting it to work. If it doesn't work for your version of Destinator, I'd need your technical input to make it work!
Good luck _________________ Barry Davies
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barryd Frequent Visitor
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Tinpusher Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Barry, that looks like exactly the sort of thing I'm after. I'll let you know how I get on so you can get some feedback as to how it works in D6. _________________ Home - Dell Axim X51 + BT359 + D6 & MM
Work - IGI CCNS4, Vexcel Ultracam D & Somag GSM3000, X-Treme L1/L2 GPS receiver all shoved into a Piper Chieftain, registration G-OSGB. See the results on http://local.live.com/ |
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MarkP Occasional Visitor
Joined: 08/09/2002 10:45:31 Posts: 31 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: "here be dragons"- navigating to a map point? |
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Tinpusher wrote: | Is it possible to select a position from the map, and tell D6 to "navigate to" that point?
By the same token, is it possible to select a point on a map and add it as a favourite?
My mum lives in the middle of nowhere- the postcode isn't recognised and it's about 2/3 of the way along a minor road. I want to add her house into my favourites, and at the moment I can't figure out how to do it. |
You can tap on a point on the map whilst navigating and a window pops up with "Go there", "Add to favourites" and something else which I can't remember. Wouldn't that serve your needs? |
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