Postcode search with no house number?

pauljmuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 59

Having trouble with my I3 - I bought it cos my job needs me to make a lot of journeys to factories and industrial sites.

Each of these have postcodes, but never a house number. I can plug in the code, but what about the number. Leaving it blank and hitting "done" does nothing. If I enter a random number it points to a variety of locations around where i want to go, but not to it.

Surely this is an obvious problem, and I'm being thick?

ninjagaiden · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

I had similar issue with setting destination to a hospital address. Hospital has postcode but no street number. I typed in postcode and just entered 1 for house number.

It came up with a funny name for the location, which I renamed. Running the navigation worked without a hitch. Obviously this did not work in your case 8-(

Alternative is to add location each time you visit a factory by storing current location, and you'll build up database of locations each time you visit a factory, or you could use streetmap to locate factories ahead of time, and use coordinate conversion to read off coordinates to load as points of interest.

I agree neither of these is very satisfactory

ps73uk · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 116

Hitting 0 for the house number will sometimes work, the problem is this will only work about 3-5 times them will cause it's own problems, with the Garmin just constantly taking you back to the last postcode you entered, more info on that here:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=28620[/url]
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mpet · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 26, 2005 Posts: 3

Having only just got my unit, I've not yet tried this, butwould there be a similar problem with roads that only have house names. My Brother-in-law lives up a country lane where all the houses have names. If entering 0 causes problems and there are no valid house numbers what would you enter?

zogman · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject:

its been mentioned on this forum that postcodes generally have a .3 mile coverage area.. clicking '0' as ps73uk suggested,does work and once the said location has been found you can add it to favorites..

pauljmuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 59

Yes, but its also being reported that doing so several times will cause a malfunction.

Come to think of it, I know a couple of people who dont have house numbers. Also, my office has no number, and is in the middle of knowhere. I tried the postcode, and used a variety of numbers from 0 to 9, and never was it close to my work.

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