Can you get a sat nav that does this...

FreddieFrugal

I use NavFree UK - which is a free sat nav app on phone. You can move around map, press somewhere and tell it to take you there. It also has google search for destinations. Like the TomTom app it has the maps downloaded so it doesn't need data. Obviously the google search bit does but everything else works without it.

JustAnotherSaver

NavFree was one that i'd used & i thought it was horrible to be honest.

Will look out that TomTom you mentioned. Thanks.

wongataa

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

I never said it didn't have a post code, it does.
Although i'm not sure why a post code would help?

A post code wont get you direct there will it.

But see my earlier comment about the post code problem.

I want to select a point on a map manually, not to be taken to roughly in the region of.

Many businesses and other organisations have a post code that is unique to the address of that organisation/business. The company I work for does. Therefore using that post code in a sat nav will take you directly to the correct place. If you put the post code of where I work into a sat nav you are directed to right outside the building.

JustAnotherSaver

wongataa wrote: »

Many businesses and other organisations have a post code that is unique to the address of that organisation/business. The company I work for does. Therefore using that post code in a sat nav will take you directly to the correct place. If you put the post code of where I work into a sat nav you are directed to right outside the building.

Unfortunately that didn't work for the hospital i needed to go to.

Mobeer

Postcode should have worked, since the hospital seems to have a distinct postcode:

Royal Albert Edward Infirmary = WN1 2NN

233 Wigan Lane (just to the north) = WN1 2NS
157 Wigan Lane (outside, not the hospital) = WN1 2NH
152 Wigan Lane (just to the south) = WN1 2LA

Altarf

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Quote: Altarf - Google Maps on any Android phone does exactly that, works excellently as a sat nav, and is free.

I'm not wanting an Android phone. Plus doesn't that use data? Im sure it did with the wifes SGS3. Either way, i still don't want an Android phone.

So you want a device that delivers sat nav just like pointing to a place on Google Maps, which is exactly what Google Maps on a Google Android phone does, but don't want to choose that solution, but something second rate instead?

Fair enough.

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Quote: Altarf - And with Google Now, your phone probably knows where you want to go without you needing to tell it.

Sounds interesting (& worrying!). How does this work?

If you use Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Search, etc it uses that information to predict where you want to go. So if you have an appointment at a hospital at 10:00am on Tuesday, the phone knows where you are, knows where you need to be, so based on live traffic on that day, will remind you automatically when it is time to leave and will have already plotted your route on a map.

It also links the information across all the devices you use. So if you search using Google for a restaurant on your PC, when you pull up Google Maps on your phone, the restaurant will be one of the suggestions.

Worrying? - No. Just very handy, and better than any 'dumb' sat nav.

Ultrasonic

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Ultrasonic wrote:

My entry level TomTom Start allows me to navigate to a point on the map, so it would seem a surprising ommission if the phone app didn't let you do the same.

It does let me navigate to a point on a map. All destinations are points on a map.
What it doesn't let me do is scroll around the UK, do a long press to 'drop a pin' & then select a pop up option that says something on the lines of 'route to here'.

I thought I was pedantic! Yes, 'all destinations are a point on a map', but what I meant was basically what you describe. You tell it you want to navigate to a point on a map, it then brings up the map, you zoom/scroll to where you want to go, tap on this point, and it calculates a route there. I actually use this more for when I want to force a route to go via a particular road, but it will work as you want.

Edit: what it won't do though is give you access to a Google satelite image of the area if you want to for example use this to find a particular car park.

mojod

Have you checked online to see if the manufacturer has an updated
points of interest file that you can download and transfer to the sat-nav?

oldagetraveller

I've just checked my TomTom Classic XXL and the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary is second on the list of hospitals using navigate to - point of interest - in a city - wigan - hospitals/clinics. Shows on the map at the junction of Wigan Lane and St Clement's Road.
I would expect it to be listed on the more recent TomTom models too?
It's also possible, on the Classic, to scroll through the map and touch a point as a destination. Navigate to - point on map. However, as the exact location of this Infirmary is not known exactly that could prove a problem unless, say it was located on Google Maps first!

JustAnotherSaver

mojod wrote: »

Have you checked online to see if the manufacturer has an updated
points of interest file that you can download and transfer to the sat-nav?

There is an update for the TomTom app, but it requires iOS7 i think, or at least iOS6.

I'm on iOS5.1.1 myself & don't want to update. My phone is jailbroken & i like the tweaks too much to lose them (5 icon dock, different fonts, different scrolling etc). Add to this the fact i think iOS7 looks horrendous. It means i can't update many of my apps but i'm fine with that for now.