I3 limitations

john59 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 21, 2006 Posts: 7

I3 limitations.
I use my I 3 every day traveling around the northwest ,and although 95% of the time it will get us there ,but we find that when we are given an address on an industrial estate with just a company name we do struggle although it gets us in the genaral area. Now for the bad bit, We had to do some work in Walkden near Manchester and Walkden is quite a sizable town and the I3 could not find Walkden never mind the street name, it eventualy found the street under Manchester ??????????????? and only yesterday we had to go to the Birch ind estate near haywood Bury and it did not exist on the I3 maps and the estate has been there for over 30 years. When we finaly did get there the triangle on the screen was in limbo so to speak, no roads or rivers just a grey blank screen.

Sorry for the rant guys but has anyone else experienced this.

Regards
John

alix776 · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

if its the industrial estate im thinking of then it not on any map the building shoud be postcoded though

not all industiral estates are on paper maps even though in the case of birch the a sign a the junction where you turn right heywood distribution park is there as it a much bigger estate something like birch isnt big enough though
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sunstrip_steve · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 126

Yes it is a little annoying, but its an information issue, not a unit issue. And in general is a problem with industrial estates as the roads are private

sites on this estate do appear with postcodes however.

With the greater manchester area most things are listed under manchester

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:50 am Post subject:

it's not a limitation of the i3, it's clearly a limitation in the map data provided by navteq... the i3 can only find what it has been told exists!

you'd find it would be the same on any unit that uses navteq maps...

MaFt

john59 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 21, 2006 Posts: 7

Cheers guys, so postcodes are the way to go Smile

dab · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject:

I use my i3 all the time for finding my way to different companies in the North West, and Post Codes are definately the way to go.
You don't quite get "to the door" as companies don't always give a street number. I use No.1 and it usually gets me close enough.

Also, make sure that your i3 has V8 maps, and not the older V7.

guitareth

Had my i3 for a few weeks now, and whilst I agree its great when you know the full postcode, it doesn't seem to be so good if you DONT know the postcode. What I don't get is, if I try to enter a destination from just the street name, it very often can't find the street at all in its database, (or it offers me just certain ones of the same name in different towns but not the one I want). However, if I find out the full postcode for the same destination, then it will offer me the correct street and just ask me to select house number.

So how come, when the street I'm looking for clearly IS contained in its database, why is it only offered in the results when I search via the postcode?

Also, when you enter a postcode and get down to the street, it seems it has to be given a house number. This is the case for locations which don't actually have any house numbers in reality. It appears the only way to complete the entry of your destination is to enter a random house number anyway. Is that correct, or am I missing something?

If I 've posted some incorrect statements here, then I'm probably not familiar enough with the correct operation of the unit yet! If so, appreciate any guidance as to how I should be using it in instances as described above. I'm a newbie - be gentle with me Laughing

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Dilcymro · Frequent Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 376

HI guitareth,

Regarding postcodes, if there is no house no then you just enter " 0 " and then the i3 will put you somewhere around the centre of the postcode, near enough for you to find anyway. I have done this a few times and just asked someone where the house is, only to find it was only a few yards from where I was. Basically it puts you in the ballpark.

What I tend to do now is check on the bt site for a phone number check and when it finds it , it gives you the postcode also. Ok if you have some details available.

Regards....Dil
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Shro · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 28, 2006 Posts: 1

Thought I'd share my experience on this with i3

Was searching for a particular address in Slough Industrial estate. the Postcode finder did seem to have the postcode in its database. However when I selected this to get the location, it threw me off by displaying a completely different addres... with a DIFFERENT POSTCODE !! 8O

Wonder if anybody faced a similar situation.

What I then did was (after reaching the place... somehow) added the location to my Favourites and it worked great . :P

The other thing I tried was the laborious way of first identifying the location through Google Earth, getting the Lats & Longs and adding to Custom POIs

Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

guitareth

guitareth · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject:

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slatermethuen · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 5

Anita · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

I've found both of these on my i3 without a problem. Confused

Where to / Address / England / Eastl (gives Eastleigh, Hants as an option) / House No 0 / Street Reno (gives Renown Close as the only option)

Where to / Address / England / Southa (gives Southampton, Hants as an option) / House No 0 / Street Prin (gives Princes [Close, Court...] as an option) / Select (gives Princes Street as the third option)
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slatermethuen · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 5

Thanks for that!

When I was searching, at the 'City or Postal Code' screen, I was selecting 'Search All'. I assumed that this would search all locations in England, but obviously not Confused

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