taffyboyo

is it possible to find farms and cottages etc in rural areas just by their names via a download or something (tomtom 510), I have postcode search, but sometimes its not accurate enough to find the house/farm very easy.

If not anyone got any tips finding places in rural areas,

cheers
Taffy

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

if they have a postcode, then most satnavs will find it, but be warned....farmhouses, outbuildings and remote cottages are sometimes missed off the mapping....if in any doubt, ask how hard it is for the local postie to find them

you have to rely on a closest location and then find your way...

Nick100

Some remote farms are individually named on OS maps - if you know roughly where it is, use the ordnance survey website 1:25k maps or higher res. I think you can put postcodes in to that - Get a map online free from Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency

taffyboyo

Thanks, just to add that I might do about 15 drops a day (mini bulk fuel tanker) and I dont know where I'm going untill I start work on that day.
I just thought you might be able to get names etc on POI or a download of somekind , anyone know?

Postcodes work quite good, but occasionally it gets it wrong or there's the wrong postcode on the delivery note.

Cheers
Taffy

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

my sat nav does POI and postcodes etc...but surely it is up to the depot to give you the right locations so you dont waste your time finding the bleeding places (and I should know cos I live in a place with no mains gas so oil tanks it is)

but at least if you are delivering fuel, you will never run out whilst getting lost )

Turbohot

Satnav is not that intelligent. MY TOMTOM3 had sent me round the earth a few times looking for both country and urban locations. I don't find it that reliable. I got fed up and parted with it.