Sat Nav Coordinates

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Looking for a new one that allows you to input coordinates but when you read through the details and specification of a lot of Garmin and TomTom Sat Navs nothing is mentioned about this.
I was told that TomTom stopped putting this facility on their cheaper levels because nobody used them.
I am not after a Camper Sat Nav at £250+ so can anybody recommend a reasonably priced range Sat Nav that does allow coordinate input.

Thanks John
 
get in the shop and have a play, insist you need them let the salesmen earn their wages for a change.
 
Deffo no problem with Tom Tom in any of the three formats
 
see pm I sent you

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Sorry for the delay in thanking you all but have been a bit under the weather with a bug. I have taken onboard all your comments so I will now have another look.

Thank you John
 
Get yourself a nokia phone the maps thing on there is as good as any satnav, and standalone , doesn't use any credit and it takes coordinates
 
The cheap Chinese Sat Nav that a lots of us bought earlier in the year for about £60.00 lets you put in coordinates was well as the size of your van, didn't let in down on during our month long trip to France. x:-)
 
TomTom did stop this function on newer navs but by popular demand (read as utter outrage) they re-instated it at the last major update.

Only some models were affected.....Go 50/500/5000 were.
 
The cheap Chinese Sat Nav that a lots of us bought earlier in the year for about £60.00 lets you put in coordinates was well as the size of your van, didn't let in down on during our month long trip to France. x:-)

Agree . Beats our Garmin hands down for the van ! Have run the two in tandem and the Chinese never put a foot wrong . Garmin chose small roads , takes too long to recalculate and is forever asking you to u turn if you don't take the road it wants . The Chinese quickly gives you the next alternative turning !

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Agree . Beats our Garmin hands down for the van ! Have run the two in tandem and the Chinese never put a foot wrong . Garmin chose small roads , takes too long to recalculate and is forever asking you to u turn if you don't take the road it wants . The Chinese quickly gives you the next alternative turning !

And does do co ordinates in both forms !!
 
Agree . Beats our Garmin hands down for the van ! Have run the two in tandem and the Chinese never put a foot wrong . Garmin chose small roads , takes too long to recalculate and is forever asking you to u turn if you don't take the road it wants . The Chinese quickly gives you the next alternative turning !
What makes of Chinese are they.I will be looking for one in near future.I have a Tom Tom go 700' IT still works great but maps are years out of date.
 
We bought ours from EBay . There are lots to chose from but I think it uses Igo software but I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. I think the seller was Navibuzz ?
 
We've got 2 TomToms, and the older cheaper one - a 'Start' something - won't take co-ordinates. The slightly newer and more expensive one does. They both have out-of-date maps now, but still work. It appears most new TomTom's and Garmin sat-navs have free life-time map updates, but TomTom wants about £50 or £60 to update each of our existing ones - not really worth the cost - might as well buy a new one.

Mike
 
We bought ours from EBay . There are lots to chose from but I think it uses Igo software but I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. I think the seller was Navibuzz ?
Yeah mine was navibuzz , it has been great in the uk, France and Germany, we will be using it in Spain in the new year. We do have a old car Tom Tom in the motorhome if we get a failure.

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I use a Snooper 8500 caravan & motorhome that is very expensive-does DAB radio, tv etc & seemed a good idea at the time!

Anyway I was trying to plan our house-buying journey to France in 2015 using Le Parc Verger in Limousin (Funster owned but up for sale) as our base. Snooper told me the co-ordinates were wrong-grrr.

So I tried the TomTom app for my smartphone (UK & Western Europe), that cost me about £45 ages ago with free updates. It worked perfectly for Le parc Verger & I was able to avoid toll roads & see the route easily. So maybe a cheap option if you've a smartphone or tablet?
 
I fancied one of those double din head units with android operating system
Plenty on fle-bay from £150/£300
 
I use a Snooper 8500 caravan & motorhome that is very expensive-does DAB radio, tv etc & seemed a good idea at the time!

Anyway I was trying to plan our house-buying journey to France in 2015 using Le Parc Verger in Limousin (Funster owned but up for sale) as our base. Snooper told me the co-ordinates were wrong-grrr.
Snooper had a problem recently on the 8500 with their navigation in France . The latest update fixes it.

Not sure that you have the same problem, but it would be worth checking you have the latest version anyway.
 
Tomtom Go allows sat nav coordinates to be entered and use the facility all the time in France for finding ASCI sites - excellent!

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TomTom's fine with co-ords, use them all the time in conjunction with Google Earth.
 
Quick question about the Chinese SatNavs, I have been thinking about getting one of these and I am wondering what maps they use, ie TomTom, Navman or whatever.
 
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Quick question about the Chinese SatNavs, I have been thinking about getting one of these and I am wondering what maps they use, ie TomTom, Navman or whatever.
They use Navteq maps with Igo Primo navigation software as used in many systems.
 
I am not allowed to enter GPS as I have slight number dyslexia.and took us to a very remote place in france can input but swmbo checks it:xgrin:

joe
 

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