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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: DorsetDC on 11 January 2014, 19:15
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I'm going up to the Autosport International Racing Car Show tomorrow so thought I would program the Discovery Pro for a route. If you want any cafés, shopping centres, and any other POI no problem, but the NEC, no chance. Found it at last by finding a Costa Coffee at the venue. What a farce.
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What category were you searching under?
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POI & motorway junctions
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Did you try the postcode ? B40 1NT
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Maybe it's not on there because everyone already knows how to get to the NEC?
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TomTom knows where it is... :evil:
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Don't know if the VW system will struggle with this but my TomTom regularly fails to accurately locate places with multiple entrances and no fixed street access address such as hospitals, sports stadia, conference centres, o2, earls court etc. In central London having a GPS following a postcode wrongly by even a hundred metres you end up going the wrong direction up a one-way with the rozzers pulling you over!
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I had a look at my Nav Pro the other day and could not find where to enter Postcodes for routes anywhere in the UI. I looked at the manual and it shows a Postcode button in a pic near the front but on further investigation I discovered there is no way of inputting Postcodes when dialling in a route. I have these three options, Address, POI & Map (Longitude and Latitude).
Hope someone can tell me I am wrong and it does indeed have postcode entry. But from I have seen I have to convert a postcode in to a Longitude and Latitude reference. If this is the case I have found two websites which convert Google Maps locations in to the required coordinates.
http://www.pauldjohnson.co.uk/content/uk-postcode-geocoder-returning-latitude-longitude-and-plots-map
http://www.doogal.co.uk/LatLong.php
Hope these help those of you, who like me are a bit confused as to why postcodes may not exist in Nav Pro.
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If that's the case then that is shocking. I only ever use postcodes + door number whenever I need the nav (why would anyone use anything less exact?). It would of course be the same on Discover Nav.
That along with the lack ok speed camera alerts are enough to put me off the system before it's even arrived. Wish I'd tried it out more fully before speccing it.
[edit: I realise you can't get more exact than Lat/Long, but what a pain.]
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It does have postcode input, if i remember correctly on the page where you can enter the town, it's either bottom left or right and it's just 'PTCD' i think?
Hope that helps (ish)? :D
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Could you show me a screenshot of where you think the postcode entry section of the Nav Pro is Jimble. I have scoured every inch of what I think is the Nav Pro and cannot find any Postcode entry anywhere. In the town entry page It just asks for address details minus the postcode? I find this weird. I was trying to enter the details (could not find postcode entry) for a factory unit on an industrial estate and it would not let me. Kept telling me the nearest house no is 2. I cannot find Postcode anywhere on the Nav Pro? Hopefully you can prove me wrong and show me where to look to enter Postcode. :huh:
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Thanks Jimble for the prompt on where to look for Postcode entry. It is great that I have now found where to enter the Postcode,
I can now confirm you can enter Postcodes on Nav Pro. Those of you getting Nav Pro can stop the cold sweats on whether you should have purchased it, all is OK now thanks to Jimble showing us the way. :smiley:
It's a bit backward where you enter it though. Rather than just entering a Postcode as a single function. It requires you to go in to the address entry screen and then select the Town entry field, this then in turn as Jimble say's brings up the Postcode button bottom left of the screen. On this screen you enter either Postcode or Town. A bit weird and awkward to find for a noob. But all is great and wonderful now I know I have not wasted money on my Nav Pro. I can vouch to anyone getting Nav Pro it is a great piece of kit, just some options are hard to find for the first time.
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Glad you found it mate, i haven't got one atm as i'm still in the courtesy car till my new car arrives, i remember getting a bit frustrated not being able to find it when i got the GTI! I think someone on here pointed me in the right direction at the time. 8)
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RNS 510 is the same - the thinking behind it is they see the postcode as being part of the address (which to be fair it is really - but coming from a TomTom I thought it was odd not to seperate them but its logical now).
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Phew
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I'm going up to the Autosport International Racing Car Show tomorrow so thought I would program the Discovery Pro for a route. If you want any cafés, shopping centres, and any other POI no problem, but the NEC, no chance. Found it at last by finding a Costa Coffee at the venue. What a farce.
Assuming you found it, how was the show, did you see any aftermarket boys promoting anything good for the GTI?