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i am going to France for the first time ,do they have a post code system like us for the sat nav,if not what do you type in ?

I always use the coordinates to program my sat nav. Far more accurate due to the large areas their postcodes cover as Terry said. Coordinates are easily obtained from google maps, just go into new on the top toolbar and activate LatLong Labels and wherever your mouse hovers the latitude/longitude coordinates will appear.

Carol

I do the same as Magicaly.

Hi dawsoctor.

                   Got a Garmin 255W from Amazon last month, great little sat nav for £99 main reason was for France this year, like others have mentioned, best to use the gps co-ordinates than the post code, most campsites/hotels provide the long/lat info, the Garmin I got is now EOL, and I have just downloaded and added the most recent map info to it (version Europe NT Central & West 2010.30), Garmin let you do this for free within the first 60 days of locking onto the satellites, for others that have this model I noticed Halford stores are doing the Travel Pack on clearance at £20 which gives you mains adapter all countries, leather pouch and USB cable.

Quote: Originally posted by dawsoctor on 06/3/2010

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i am going to France for the first time ,do they have a post code system like us for the sat nav,if not what do you type in ?

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Are you thinking of campsite locations? If so can I suggest you visit this website and download the campsite POI's (points of interest) as it makes the job of finding campsites far less hit and miss. http://www.archiescampings.eu/eng1/

David

Quote: Originally posted by jsparkes201148 on 07/3/2010

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very bumpy and the van looked like we had crossed the Sahara.
So now If I don`t like the look of the road I carry on and wait for her to "recalculate"

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Good Lord jsparkes201148 is this the re-emergence of common sense amongst SatNav users.  Well done sir or madam :)   I only wish we could figure out how to wean the 20 somethings off following them slaveishly.....

Quote: Originally posted by nas1399 on 08/3/2010

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we have just returned from south of paris and found the best way is to use longitude and latitude in your sat nav we have got a binatone z430 with some tweeks !!it only comes with uk maps and you cant buy European maps for it for some reason ????
but we never got lost once even when driving through the center of paris

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Hey?? How did you use it in Paris with no maps?