Can I navigate to coordinates?

mustafacatflap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2004 Posts: 18

And if so, how?

(When my Mrs gets completely lost and she's in the middle of nowhere, can I ask her to tell me her coordinates and then go off to find her?)

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lbendlin · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

In Map view

Tools > Goto coordinates

If you have a valid GPS signal the coordinates will be where you are. Have your wife tell you those, and then enter them in the same screen and hit "go"
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barryd · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

In Map view, select Tools > Go to coordinates then enter the position you want. This shows it centered on the map. Tap and hold on the map for a menu with options including Navigate to....

If you want to use TomTom with Ordnance Survey British / Irish grid references instead of WGS84 coordinates (for when your "Mrs" gets lost with an OS map rather than a GPS receiver Smile

), try out my OS GPS Convertor tool. Info and download at:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/barrydavies/osgps.htm
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mustafacatflap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2004 Posts: 18

This is more or less what we've been doing but it doesn't seem quite that simple.

What we did was: Navigator, tap screen, tap GPS status and this gave us a position of 53.36.021N and 1.48.652E

But you can't enter a coordinate with either a three digit length or a first figure number greater than '5' of course. Consequently we can't enter the last three digits of the GPS position and only get approximate (within a hundred yards) locations.

When you're on a country road with high hedges etc etc. that's not really good enough. Where I live, you'd need a step ladder to see into the next field!

As for going: map: go to co-ordinates. The co-ordinates listed there are the last ones you entered, they don't seem to be the current ones.

amcluesent · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:36 pm Post subject:

>When my Mrs gets completely lost <

I must be missing something...wouldn't it be simpler for 'her outdoors' to have your home as the 1st Favourite and then she does 'Find'->'Home'->'Navigate to...' Question

mustafacatflap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2004 Posts: 18

Yes, you are missing something but don't let it concern you.

This is rather hypothetical, but only to a degree. What happens frinstance if Mrs has a flat tyre and can't drive. Doesn't want to navigate to home because we're on holiday and two hundred miles from the front door etc etc

And perhaps of more importance. My postcode doesn't bring you with two hundred yards of my house and my address can't be divined from TT3.

The object of the exercise is to find a precise way of navigating to somewhere.

Trying to deliver a parcel sir? Here's my co-ordinates, see you soon...

See what I mean? NO? Oh well...

alix776 · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject:

in map veiw tap tools then go to co-ordinats then type in the co-ordinatesgo to them on the map then hold the stylus and select navigate to
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barryd · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject:

amcluesent · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

> what you and the "Mrs" are actually doing. Can you share any more details with us<

Laughing Out Loud

. It's obvious now...a private plane, with no lights showing, flys in from the Continent and drops a package. There's a GPS inside which uses SMS to send it's co-ordinates. The ground team has to 'Navigate to...' and pick up the goods for 'Mrs Big'.

mustafacatflap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2004 Posts: 18

barryd · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:04 am Post subject:

oddsock · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:40 am Post subject:

If you want to ged rid of that piece of sh**e I don't mind paying the postage Laughing

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mustafacatflap · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2004 Posts: 18

barryd · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

>> "You miss the point."
Did I?:
>> "... be able to locate "her" when you need to. Or then again, maybe not..."
You obviously feel strongly about this, and I agree with most of your criticisms of TomTom. My own experience, for what it's worth, has simply been that it has always got me where I wanted to go - and with a lot less fuss/error/danger than trying to use paper maps while driving. For me, that's reason enough to use it.
The things that make it unusable for you, have only ever been minor niggles so far to me. Maybe I've just been lucky - I tend to be heading for town centre locations rather than new estates - but I have never yet failed to find an address I was looking for (please don't bombard me with addresses that don't work, there are other posts where you can add them to a long list), and while some of the routes chosen have puzzled me a bit, the fact is that they've always worked.
In my opinion the issues of map accuracy and address data will become the key product differentiators once all the products have a pretty interface, so I'm optimistic that what you want will be available in the future.
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lbendlin · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

To put everything into perspective - most of the other leading pocket navigation products on the market don't even expose that feature (navigation to coordinates). With Navigon/Medion for example you need external tools like Glopus to achieve that.

And yes, TomTom should indeed fix the field lengths of that form.
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