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14 Mar 2012
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Originally Posted by oldbmw
I wouldn't bother with a garmin for Europe.
It is very rare you can put in an address that it will accept. (For France, haven't tried elsewhere) The only way is to get someone to send the gps co ordinates of your destination. "Some times" you can do that using google maps.
I can't enter in my own address, but google, via Michelin and tom tom are fine.
same with a friends address nearby, and about a dozen other destinations that I want to go to. just this evening Tried to use it to drive to a local person selling goose eggs, the Garmin simply wont let me enter in the address. even though I have the postcode, house name and town( it does know the town, but I can follow sign posts for that).
It does not know ferry port locations in France or the UK but does know airports . I have had to find them and manually enter in the co ordinates when there. Basically it is very good for coming home but useless for going anywhere else.
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How strange... I've never had any problems like this with either of my Zumo units... a 550, and now a 660, they both work flawlessly.. having said that, I always load my GPS with the places I'll be visiting straight into 'My favorites' before a long European trip.
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15 Mar 2012
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Originally Posted by Sleepy
How strange... I've never had any problems like this with either of my Zumo units... a 550, and now a 660, they both work flawlessly.. having said that, I always load my GPS with the places I'll be visiting straight into 'My favorites' before a long European trip.
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to do that you have to be able to enter in the address, and it stops you by either not recognising it, or by forcing you to accept a wrong address.
to explain further, say you wanted to enter in "london", but after entering "lo" it completed it to "Looe" thereby preventing you from entering where you really want to go.
The odd thing is Google, Via michelin and Tom Tom does not seem to have this problem.
just try to navigate to this town. I am sure most of us would like to go there. it is in SE France post code 73260.

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15 Mar 2012
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thanks for all the suggestions guys. At least now I know what my options are; with the RAM mount and converter I can run just about anything. Now I need to decide if I should get a water proof 'hiking' style unit or a cheaper standard unit and be responsible for keeping it dry.
I think it would be wise to get it asap so I can test it out. I don't want to show up in Valencia, type in Istanbul, and it give me an issue before I even get started.
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