Tomtom for Germany
We are two weeks away from our big adventure to Croatia and starting to get everything together and it suddenly occurred to me, what do I input for German addresses?
The campsite address has a five digit number, is this the postcode, or do I need something else?
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Well I'm guilty of not using commonsense and just grabbing the Tomtom and having a play around. It seems the five digits are the equivalent of our postcodes for Germany, but I'm not sure about Austria.
Of course if you can offer any help, I will be grateful.
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Assume you have added Archie's POIs to your Tom Tom?
There has been a recent update to our device which allows POI's to be displayed on screen meaning that you can see all of the campsites in the database and the ones nearby or at your destination appear. This seems very useful.
You can also navigate to an address, POI or lat longitude due to the changed menu options.
Plus, a very useful thing is that your current GPS location is displayed when you navigate to Lat/Long. It's given as an example and is not clear (it should be) but means that if you are unfortunate enough to have a breakdown, you can give your exact location.
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Doug
Many thanks for your reply...I have heard of Archies before, but would not have any idea how to download to the Tomtom. I had a problem with a previous Tomtom which took an expert 2 hours to correct and believe me, I am no expert.
Putting the 5 digits in, seems to get me to the relevant campsite locations...In Tomtom I trust?
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Hey GL, For my garmin I follow the same procedure for the UK except to change the country to Germany etc., then you can put in postcode etc. Only had one problem with using the postcode and that was in France when the site had changed the site entrance. Works well in Holland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic etc..
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postcodes in european countries cover a much larger area than in the uk.
on our first french trip, i put in the postcode of the next site.....nowhere near it, plonked us out in the countryside somewhere, miles from the site.....we eventually found it but learned our mistake.
if you have an older to tom and are mildly handy with a windows pc, loading POI files is relatively straightforward, i have pretty much everything (CC, CCC, CL, CS, commercial, ACSI, Continental private sites etc, etc) on ours.
its so easy then to 'navigate to' a site as it appears on the map as an icon.
if you knew exactly where (on the map) the site was, you could 'navigate to, place on map' and this would be accurate.
otherwise, its postcode plus street name and/or number....
happy to help if you wish to try and load some POI files.
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This is true, but make sure the reference given is to the site entrance and not a site office well inside. Otherwise you may find yourself down a narrow lane on a boundary with no entrance. Try Thirsk racecourse using club grid reference as a good example.
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Tip. When using Lat and Long always go to 'Check map of route' on your Tom Tom to ensure you have the correct destination, it's easy to input a wrong digit....we always check independently
Obviously East and West change depending which side of the Greenwich meridian you are!
PS. Coincidently we got caught out at Thirsk last year....but it was the only one in over 10 years and in many countries, it is an obvious error when faced with a narrow rough track!
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also, make sure tou know the diference between East and West, sometimes notated as + or -.
similarly, ensure you understand the difference between the differing formats of lat/long (deg, min, sec or degrees in decimal form....).
finally ALWAYS check the route plan ed as a result of your inputting.
getting one number wrong (or +/-, E/W, N/S) could have you heading merrily across europe in the wrong direction....
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haha! no, youll note we posted the same cautionary note at (almost) exactly the same time...
no, yours wasnt a 'rearrange these words into a well known phrase or saying' post which is what we seem to get from one of our 'favourite' posters pretty well every thread
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lol, he doesnt get my humour, even if demonstrated with a sledgehammer
have a good one
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I always use the GPS co-ordinates, if you use the ACSI ones I have always found these are taken at the entrance and have never had a problem. I too am travelling to Croatia later in the year and will rely on these. (we have been there before) My only word of caution is to ensure your maps are up to date, mine weren't and we were taken along slow winding roads when there was a perfectly good motorway going the same way!
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