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johnny mac
johnny mac Forum Participant Posts: 19
edited November 2017 in Parts & Accessories #1

help trying to get sat nav to take coordinates for france but no north south east or west just figures

could be me to blame never used sat nav in this format but cant find away to get just long lat as in book its a garmin nuvi58lmt  thanks john

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  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,867 ✭✭✭
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    edited November 2017 #2

    John

    Are you thinking for campsites? If so you might find it more convenient to download campsite POI's?

    David

  • johnny mac
    johnny mac Forum Participant Posts: 19
    edited November 2017 #3

    Thanks David will give that a try

     john

  • hitchglitch
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    edited November 2017 #4

    You should go to Archie’s website and download his POI file for Garmin (I think it’s a csv file but I am sure that you will work it out). It covers thousands of sites throughout Europe and we have found it 100% accurate for around the 20 sites we have used it for, delivering us exactly at the front entrance every time.

    Once you have downloaded the file you need to use the “Loader” function in Garmin express. Once complete you will see the option in your satnav menu for “Custom POIs” and when you select it the Archie file will show on the menu. You then find the site by putting all or part of the name in the search box.

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #5

    Hitchglitch

    Just out of interest does the Garmin allow you to download a small image file to identify Archies or any other group of POI's. The reason I ask is that the other day I was trying to update Archies on my TomTom and they seem to have removed the option to load an image file!!!

    David

  • ValDa
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    edited November 2017 #6

    Archie's Camping (click for link) - with nearly 33,000 campsite POI's for Britain and mainland Europe.

    There is also an App available for android and iphones - details on Archie's website.

  • johnny mac
    johnny mac Forum Participant Posts: 19
    edited November 2017 #7

    thanks to all replies think ive got sorted

      john

  • commeyras
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    edited November 2017 #8

    My TomTom Go 500 allows coordinates in various formats including N, S, E, W.

  • ValDa
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    edited November 2017 #9

    Never rely on postcodes for your SatNav, apart from in this country.  Generally they cover much bigger areas - and in France, several kilometres in each direction.

  • old ludlovian
    old ludlovian Forum Participant Posts: 132
    edited November 2017 #10

    Agree with valda .for Tom Tom put in city .street . house number .post code covers big area apparently something do with French law they leave a a number of post code .and n.s e.w after travelling round many towns and city's over the years getting lost found info of French neighbour hope this helps

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