On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:32:42PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:55:02
on Tue, 3 Aug 2010, David Cantrell remarked:
hit "Navigate to", "Address", select Germany from the list of countries,
type five letters to find the town,
Have they avoided having (the equivalent of) half a dozen towns called
"Newport", or does it show some (equivalent of) County information to
help sort out one from the other?

I assume so. I can't think of any such placenames in Germany off the
top of my head, but if I try to use the same method to find a
destination in the UK, typing four characters (n, e, w, p) gets me a
list of ten Newports, plus Newport Pagnell, Newport-on-Tay, and Newport
Park and it's a trivial matter to mash my finger down on the right one.

The list entries are presented thus:
Newport (Gwent)
Newport (Dyfed)
Newport (Barnstaple)
etc
the sort order appears to not be very sensible, but it's not a very big
list so I guess that's OK.

type three letters to find the
street, it then asks me for the house number and directs me right to
their front door.
You seem to be *not* typing the German postcode into your TomTom.

Yeah, what I said at the beginning of my message was a bit of a
give-away about that. My point was that navigational devices work
there, to a high degree of precision, even in the absence of highly
geographically precise postcodes. Perhaps you misunderstood my
intention. Or perhaps I misunderstood yours.

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