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On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:36:25 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
>| > wrote:
>| >
>| > |
>| > | Hi -
>| > |
>| > | I understand that the normal way of specifying a destination on an
>| > | in-car sat-nav device in the UK is by using a postcode. However, if I
>| > | buy one, one f my principal requirements will be to navigate to places
>| > | for which I don't have a post code, only a (6-digit) OS grid
>| > | reference.
>| > |
>| > | Can anyone tell me if any of the commonly available ranges (Navman,
>| > | Tomtom, Garmin, etc) allow this, either directly or indirectly (via
>| > | creation of a user-defined POI, for instance)?
>| >
>| > ROTFLMAO
>| > Sorry in joke which a newbie here will not understand.
>| >
>| >
>| > |
>| > | Hi -
>| > |
>| > | I understand that the normal way of specifying a destination on an
>| > | in-car sat-nav device in the UK is by using a postcode. However, if I
>| > | buy one, one f my principal requirements will be to navigate to places
>| > | for which I don't have a post code, only a (6-digit) OS grid
>| > | reference.
>| > |
>| > | Can anyone tell me if any of the commonly available ranges (Navman,
>| > | Tomtom, Garmin, etc) allow this, either directly or indirectly (via
>| > | creation of a user-defined POI, for instance)?
>| >
>| > ROTFLMAO
>| > Sorry in joke which a newbie here will not understand.
>| >
>| Sorry Dave - but I was almost sure you'd posted this under a pseudonym :-))
>I don't do pseudonyms.
>Garmin have grid references on their handheld offerings so they
>probably do it on in-car range.
>Garmin have detailed manuals on line so it would be worth getting a
>manual for ones you are interested in. The Etrex manual mentions that
>they do grid references, and a multitude of other grids for other
>countries.
>It looks as if nobody really knows the answer to this. If Richard
>would report what he finds/buys here it would be helpful.
>I don't do pseudonyms.
>Garmin have grid references on their handheld offerings so they
>probably do it on in-car range.
>Garmin have detailed manuals on line so it would be worth getting a
>manual for ones you are interested in. The Etrex manual mentions that
>they do grid references, and a multitude of other grids for other
>countries.
>It looks as if nobody really knows the answer to this. If Richard
>would report what he finds/buys here it would be helpful.
Well, this is a bit belated but may be of use to someone (I don't
have time right now to do a proper trawl and see if I'm duplicating
other posts...)
I just bought a Garmin nuvi 610T and guess what, you can specify a
destination by a grid reference. It's not spelled out in the manual,
which only mentions that you can specify "co-ordinates", but there on
the co-ordinates page is the option to choose the co-ordinate format:
basically lat-long or BNG. So that's a bonus... actually for me, quite
a major bonus, as lots of the places I drive to that I don't already
know, I get grid references for. (OK, I suppose I could probably
convert lat-long to BNG but it's nice not to have to!)
I guess (but don't know) that this feature may well be the same in
other nuvi 6xx models (or all (current?) nuvis?).
Now if only the Bluetooth connection with my Sony Ericsson T610
weren't the wrong side of flaky...
All the best
Richard
> On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:36:25 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
SNIP>
> I just bought a Garmin nuvi 610T and guess what, you can specify a
> destination by a grid reference. It's not spelled out in the manual,
> which only mentions that you can specify "co-ordinates", but there on
> the co-ordinates page is the option to choose the co-ordinate format:
> basically lat-long or BNG. So that's a bonus... actually for me, quite
> a major bonus, as lots of the places I drive to that I don't already
> know, I get grid references for. (OK, I suppose I could probably
> convert lat-long to BNG but it's nice not to have to!)
> I guess (but don't know) that this feature may well be the same in
> other nuvi 6xx models (or all (current?) nuvis?).
> Now if only the Bluetooth connection with my Sony Ericsson T610
> weren't the wrong side of flaky...
> All the best
> Richard
SNIP>
> I just bought a Garmin nuvi 610T and guess what, you can specify a
> destination by a grid reference. It's not spelled out in the manual,
> which only mentions that you can specify "co-ordinates", but there on
> the co-ordinates page is the option to choose the co-ordinate format:
> basically lat-long or BNG. So that's a bonus... actually for me, quite
> a major bonus, as lots of the places I drive to that I don't already
> know, I get grid references for. (OK, I suppose I could probably
> convert lat-long to BNG but it's nice not to have to!)
> I guess (but don't know) that this feature may well be the same in
> other nuvi 6xx models (or all (current?) nuvis?).
> Now if only the Bluetooth connection with my Sony Ericsson T610
> weren't the wrong side of flaky...
> All the best
> Richard
Map refs in and out exist on 300 series.
Keith
>| Dave Fawthrop wrote: