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Pennine Plodder

23/1/2006 at 8:57pm
Location: Wakefield West York
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We bought our Advent 500 because it had Western Europe street level maps. When we got it home we discovered the maps had to be downloaded onto another card to be exchanged with the original UK one on crossing the Channel. We have to download each country separately and the detailis very good. Perhaps france is on a CD for downloading onto a memory card?

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JohnG

24/1/2006 at 9:13am
Location: Newcastle u Lyme
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We live from one direction at the top of a very steep narrow twisting hill with signs unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles but yesterday again under the influence of Sat Nav a B & Q large delivery vehicle forced its way up.

He was delivering a kitchen for my neighbour and I was to store it in my garage for him.

The driver thought it quite clever that he had bits of tree sticking out of his vehicle and that he had widened the road!.

I lent him my craft knife to open packages and my sack truck to wheel the oven etc to the garage.

He repaid me by driving his heavy vehicle over the sodden grass verge and giving me the job of getting the deep ruts out before I can mow it.

Really a brain would have been of more use to him than a Sat Nav

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Jan P

24/1/2006 at 4:39pm
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Mine is called MINE because its mine he didn't want one! Right now its on its way to Macclesfield! and I am here! He has "borrowed " it.

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24/1/2006 at 5:04pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Jan P on 24/1/2006
Mine is called MINE because its mine he didn't want one! Right now its on its way to Macclesfield! and I am here! He has "borrowed " it.

He's only testing it for you the things we do for love

julie h

24/1/2006 at 7:26pm
Location: stoke-on -trent staffordshire
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Saxo on the Garmin site is the full i3 manual which can be downloaded i found it useful http://www.garmin.com/products/manual.jsp?product=010-00434-00 hope this helps

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saxo1

24/1/2006 at 11:17pm
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Hi Jue,
Thanks for the link have now downloaded the manual now all I need to do is read it,like most men I took it out of it's box and played with it without reading the instructions but the manual is more comprehensive anyway.My wife always says that if a woman wants to hide something on the computer she should create a file named instruction manual and put all her private stuff in it safe in the knowledge that no male will ever open it!
Thanks Saxo1

Gram

29/1/2006 at 6:26pm
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Here's a warning - somewhere (?) I read that you could make your own POI's using latitude/longitude obtained from Google Earth - this doesn't work!
I tested it today on my Garmin (messing about!

) and found that the given point is about 13 miles out!
Using Microsoft Autoroute, the lat/long figures are spot on, so if you do want to make your own POI's, don't use Google Earth!

Gram

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Tina20

16/4/2007 at 10:26am
Location: Herefordshire
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Hi all I have a list of campsites all over europe with lat and long positions, but they are in pdf format. does any one know how to convert to excel format, as my sat nav can use I have a garmin 310d. If any one would like a copy of this in pdf, you are welcome.
thanks

jonellis

16/4/2007 at 11:07am
Location: Newport Saffron walden
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http://.com/2opj

should help

jonellis

16/4/2007 at 11:09am
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arghh! I cant put a hyper link in! it crashes my systeme each time

i'll try again

jonellis

16/4/2007 at 11:10am
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http://www.library.mcgill.ca/edrs/services/publications/howto/PDFtoXLS/PDFtoExcel.html

sorry about the size of this post put links to web pages is not working

file28

16/4/2007 at 6:55pm
Location: wrexham
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sat nav -no thanks

multi map on pc plus road atlas everytime as a fulltime lorrydriver i travel all over the country with no probs or need for a satnav,get close to your destination then if any problems either ask a local or phone the site etc

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