Garmin GPS - Nuvi doesn't show street number

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Nuvi doesn't show street number

quietguy

2007-04-16, 10:33 pm

I discovered a very annoying 'fault' in my Nuvi 660 this week. Needing
to deliver something to a house some 150km away, I entered the address
(house number, street, town) in my Nuvi and off I went. Knowing I had
the info entered in the Nuvi I didn't take any other record of the
address.

Arriving at the street, Nuvi announced as it usually does - arriving at
xxxx on right.

Knowing that Nuvi uses a math formulea for determining the location of
house numbers, and not remembering the house number, I brought up the
address in my favourites to check. Bugger. Nothing I did would coax
Nuvi into revealing the house number that I had entered. It would show
me the Street, Town, State, and fortunately the phone number that I had
luckily entered.

And so there was a happy ending - I rang the person and obtained the
house number - Nuvi had brought me very close to the address, only half
a house away.

Are all Nuvi like this?

Also, another annoying 'trait' of the Nuvi is that when I enter an
address, save it and enter a name, there is no provision for entering a
phone number. To do that, after finishing entering the name and adress
data, I have to then call up that favourite, choose edit, then select
change phone number in order to enter a phone number. Bloody annoying
as I like to include a phone number with most of my favourites as I use
Nuvi as a hands free bluetooth phone in conjuction with my bluetooth
equipped mobile. It would also be great if I could store 2 numbers -
home phone and mobile.

I love Nuvi, but why they allowed such silly faults in the software in
beyond my understanding

David

tvnav.com

2007-04-18, 12:33 pm

"quietguy" <postings@REMOVE-TO-REPLYconfidential-counselling.com> wrote in
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>I discovered a very annoying 'fault' in my Nuvi 660 this week. Needing
> to deliver something to a house some 150km away, I entered the address
> (house number, street, town) in my Nuvi and off I went. Knowing I had
> the info entered in the Nuvi I didn't take any other record of the
> address.
>
> Arriving at the street, Nuvi announced as it usually does - arriving at
> xxxx on right.
>
> Knowing that Nuvi uses a math formulea for determining the location of
> house numbers, and not remembering the house number, I brought up the
> address in my favourites to check. Bugger. Nothing I did would coax
> Nuvi into revealing the house number that I had entered. It would show
> me the Street, Town, State, and fortunately the phone number that I had
> luckily entered.

If you would have looked in the recently found places it would have
shown the address if you looked it up before.

> Are all Nuvi like this?

I believe so.
--

Darrel Goheen
GPS@tvnav.com
http://www.tvnav.com

quietguy

2007-04-19, 10:33 pm

Yes thanks, that brings up the POI quickly, but it still only shows the
street, not the house number.

David

"tvnav.com" wrote:

> If you would have looked in the recently found places it would have
> shown the address if you looked it up before.
>
>
> I believe so.
> --
>
> Darrel Goheen
> GPS@tvnav.com
> http://www.tvnav.com

quietguy

2007-04-22, 10:33 pm

>

Further to my previous post re this issue, I find that if I enter an address
(house No, street, suburb/town, state) that is in the Sydney metropoloitan
area the full address does show when I recall it as a favourite - ie it does
show the house number I entered.

But if I do the same thing with an address in Wagga (largest inland town in
NSW) the house number is not shown when I recall that location from the
favourites list. Same with all the country towns I did this test on.

However, when I look up the POIs that some preinstalled on the Nuvi (eg look
up a shop/fuel site in Wagga) a full adress is shown.

Pretty weird, and damned annoying as I tend to load adresses into the Nuvi
before leaving home - and now I find I also have to take a paper copy with
me and keep that in the car. Bugger.

David

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