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SatNav - always sends people to wrong destination
busy
24-11-2010
My postcode, when typed into these machines, always sends people about 2 miles in the wrong direction - who do I contact to put this right? Should I do each company individually or is there some central service?
chrisjr
24-11-2010
A post code does not refer to just one address. It can cover quite a wide geographical area, especially out in the country. So relying solely on that to get you from A to B can be problematic.

Not sure about every make of Sat Nav but the Tom Tom I've got can go to a street address, ie road name and house number as an alternative to the Post Code.

I suspect there is little you can do about it. After all the real purpose of a Post Code is to enable the Royal Mail to deliver letters to your front door (well some of the time anyway ). So unless you can persuade the Royal mail to change the post code for your home and get the Sat Nav makers to update their databases there isn't much you can do.

Apart from checking you really are giving people your correct post code of course
dodgygeeza
24-11-2010
Newer sat navs will also ask for a house number as well as a postcode, I'd assume this would get them to your door rather than someone else's. Failing that just give them your address, they should be able to search for it.
GetFrodo
24-11-2010
And if you live in a new estate or road, you'll be plagued for a long time by complaints of people whose navis don't have the latest maps...
tony13579
25-11-2010
Sign post your house from the point where the sat nav sends them
gomezz
25-11-2010
If you live out in the sticks in a scattered hamlet the postcode can be centred in the middle of a field.
Quickblood
25-11-2010
Originally Posted by dodgygeeza:
“Newer sat navs will also ask for a house number as well as a postcode, I'd assume this would get them to your door rather than someone else's. Failing that just give them your address, they should be able to search for it.”

Newer ones, I thought they all did that? I've only had experience with Tomtom and Igo over the years but they always ask for a house number.
gomezz
25-11-2010
And some insist on a house number which can be very annoying if you do not want to go down to that level. And in any case the sat-nav does not pinpoint each house number individually but interpolates where they estimate a number to be in a run of houses. Good for lots of ticky-tacky little boxes all in a row (to quote the song), not so good for individual properties which have large and varying size and shape plots and who neglect to put their house number / name where it can be easily seen from the road at the end of a long drive.
JeffG1
27-11-2010
My SatNav (Nissan Qashqai built-in) doesn't do postcodes at all - it's all city [sic], street and house number, though you can omit the "fine tuning" if you want less accuracy.
dodgygeeza
28-11-2010
Originally Posted by Quickblood:
“Newer ones, I thought they all did that? I've only had experience with Tomtom and Igo over the years but they always ask for a house number.”

I had the misfortune to use a really old one that belonged to an employer once that didn't appear to be aware of house numbers, it was rubbish.

Possibly bad phrasing, maybe I should have said some really old ones don't rather than newer ones do.
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