Hi
When visiting france do you find it better to use longitude and latitude or the address?
Just looking at my route to du letty?
Its my first trip and just trying to cover all the bases
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Our Nissan built in sat nav did fine with the address, but we also took the Tom Tom (we've only just got a second car with built in sat nav so had it anyway). I also printed the route on the AA website route planner so I could follow it and check we were heading the right way.
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Got the Nissan Sat Nav as well now. Fitted in my new Juke. I have had Tom Tom for years and Lat/Long worked for me in France where postcodes are across too great a range. The Nissan Sat Nav doesn't do Lat/Long but I have programmed it with all the place names for our forthcoming trip and I havnt come across one it cant find. Not even the tiny hamlet where our van is sited. Pinpointing a place on the map is also very accurate and easy to use. Only thing I don't like is the plummy voice but I think we will take a chance and leave the Tom Tom at home.
Well yes, campsite POI files are useful, but they might not be the oly places you want to go.
With our cheap old satnav addresses in France worked fine normally. The mapping for all these devices only really comes from a few companies, so they probably all use simialr address databases anyway.
Though at home I've given up using it and find that the navigation on Googlemaps on my smartphone works well and is very convenient. I'll miss that in France.
so will take the Satnav, but the maps are getting rather out of date, and certainly some bits of newer autoroute are missing. So will also install Copilot onto my phone before we go as that has a free trial for 2 weeks.
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Both my Garmin and the inbuilt Mercedes sat nav work perfectly with addresses in France, Holland, Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria.......never used long/lat or POI's
The maps on my Tomtom XL were about 3 year old but I noticed that Halfords had reduce the price of the Tomtom Start from £250 to £99 and it including free Lifetime map updates.
It has a 5in screen and Western Europe maps which is all I need. I have also downloaded the 30,000 sites from Archies.
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