Garmin Edge 705 question

[medication25]

i love it! works well, routes well, i have the City nav 09 map installed... but when i want to nav to a house i cannot for the life of me find somwhere to enter a post code...

Has anyone else managed this, should i get a better map system for it?

 

[arallsopp]

I have City Nav 2010.1 on an Etrex Legend HCx, and I can't find a way of doing it either

 

[jpatterson]

This is a good point, Surely theres got to be some sort of way I cant imagine them letting it out the factory door otherwise!

 

[Will1985]

It's not a sat nav!

 

[dodgy]

It's not a sat nav!

+1 It's a fitness device.

 

[jimboalee]

+1 It's a fitness device.

+1 Its a GPS enabled cycle computer.

 

[medication25]

umm it is a sat nav, it directs you to points of interest, streets, ATM's shops...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the standard generic term for satellite navigation systems that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage. ..

If it gives me real time directions and works out routes... it seems like a sat-nav to me.. what am i missing?

 

[Old Walrus]

Go to MENU>> Where To? >> Find Places >> Addresses. Then fill in the details. Works well but a bit more long-winded than a simple postcode.

 

[dodgy]

umm it is a sat nav, it directs you to points of interest, streets, ATM's shops...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the standard generic term for satellite navigation systems that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage. ..

If it gives me real time directions and works out routes... it seems like a sat-nav to me.. what am i missing?

Yes that's all correct, what we means it that fluff such as full postcode routing is not essential on a fitness device. I would be disappointed not to find that functionality in a car sat nav, just as I woud be surprised to find a car sat nav that I could download routes out of and compare heart rate.

 

[Sittingduck]

Can't you just get to the street and look at the numbers on the doors... move up or down the street, as required B)

 

[jimboalee]

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=10885

When a parent names its child, you don't go calling it by a name you think is better.

 

[medication25]

hehe, i could look arround, i was just thinking it must be a feature i just cannot find, seems its an oversight.. or there was a tech reason for not adding it...

great bit of kit though... those of you who have one -- when you put it onto the bike check its locked on correcly into its holder, mine has gotton a bit of ware one the holder and did not lock fully, i hit the menu button while at the lights and the thing flew off my bike and under a stopped car... was a close one..

 

[arallsopp]

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=10885

When a parent names its child, you don't go calling it by a name you think is better.

Take your point. Out of interest, did your parents name you jimboalee? B)

 

[jimboalee]

Take your point. Out of interest, did your parents name you jimboalee?

No. I named myself Jimboalee, just like you named yourself arallsopp

 

[arallsopp]

Strictly speaking, I re-punctuated myself from A.R. Allsopp

Anyway, we're sufficiently far from topic to provide real insight to life with a Garmin. In my experience, they're generally very good at keeping the unwary cyclist confidently pedalling away from their ultimate destination.