Club Satnav & French postcodes

Skiwrinkley
Skiwrinkley Forum Participant Posts: 1
edited August 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

I bought a new Club Satnav to help with my trip to France this June/July. The very first site could not be found. "You have arrived" said the Satnav, but we were about 1km away in reality. The postcodes cover a much larger area than the ones we have in the
UK.

Be also aware that the names of the sites may not be the same as those pre-programmed into the Satnav. For instance Chateau du Deffay (B25) is actually Kawan Village le Chateau du Deffay, and Camping St Emilion (D08) is actually Yelloh. Confusing? No doubt
it wil get sorted out in time.

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  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,872 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2016 #2

    I remember once in France looking for my brother-in-laws house using a post code, almost impossible. Fortunately a man on a tractor in the village knew where the "les Anglais" lived and pointed me in the right direction!!!

    I am not sure how easy it is to load alternative POI's onto that model Sat Nav but would suggest you download from HERE  Archies POI's are very reliable. We recently stayed at about 18 campsites through France/German/Austria and we were taken right to the entrance of each campsite with not problems.

    If you can't load alternative POI's use the option to find POI's near destination as that will show up the sites which will make it easier to identify which one you are heading for.

    David

     

  • commeyras
    commeyras Club Member Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2016 #3

    French postcodes do not operate the same as UK ones.  When we lived in France our post code covered 4 hamlets about 5ks between each one.  Best to use GPS coordinates or the actual address.

  • David2115
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    edited August 2016 #4

    Post code for a site we used in concarneau took us to the post office in centre of town, 3km from the site. Found it in the end after getting out of narrow streets 

  • hitchglitch
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    edited August 2016 #5

    Assuming you are talking about the Garmin then as suggested by David you should download sites from Archies website. You will probably need extra memory but you can buy this very cheaply from Amazon etc. The Garmin website gives instructions. You will find
    a comprehensive European sites list and this year we used it extensively. It takes you right to the site entrance. You can load a separate file for ACSI sites which makes searching slightly simpler.

    I found the best way to use it was to load the nearest town as a destination then search for the sites.

     

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