Hi,

I have recently bought a 500 Star TA and I am having loads of issues using the Tom Tom GPS. Maybe I'm too used to another version of GPS but how do you, for example, put in a whole load of "Favourite" locations which you can call up as needed? Where can you store all of these places?
Or even more simple, how do you put in an address of which the Tom Tom had not heard, but is actually there on the ground.
An example: I wanted 1152 Aztec West Business Park, Almondsbury. It got stuck on 120 Aztec West which if you know the area is miles away from 1152 and not on anything like the same road. It would not budge or make any changes no matter what extra information was added.
How do you put in a location referencing it by Lat/Long Coordinates.
How can you find a place on a map display and say "That's the place I want - store that please".
Maybe someone can point me in the direction of a useable manual. I'm sure that it's out there but where?
I'm about to fix usual GPS on the screen. That at least has a book for the idiots like me to follow. But what a waste of money having an optional GPS if you can't find out how to use it!!! Or worse still - it doesn't do the things I am thinking that it should be capable of doing!!!

Thanks
HyFy (Geoffrey)

I doubt there a way of putting in latitude coordinates not not a feature that's very common on car sat Nov unit's.

Have you tired putting in a address post code first then going through the list of addresses on the street to find the destination?

I, not familiar with the system and its 6+ years since I used tomtom devices..

You used to be able to use coordinates as a destination, but suspect this facility has gone over the years as its very little use in a car
The maps are probably a year or so older than the vehicle, so it may be some more recent destinations aren’t in the software, you may be able to get a subscription to updates maps as and when available

I stopped using tomtom due to the out of date maps, fees and the fact google maps was free and pretty much up to date, at least more up to date than tomtom.

Thanks for those replies.
Sorry to have raised these problems but I did have this thought that I was missing the issue and was making a poor fist of trying to operate it. Maybe I wasn't and maybe it simply won't do what I think that it ought to do.
If you "right click" on a Google map and choose "What's here" you get a Lat Long. Transferring this to some GPS systems gives you a really accurate way of defining a location but it would appear that TomTom "in car" GPS doesn't oblige. I hadn't tried the Postcode suggestion but when you have some 3000 addresses with that postcode it would be a bit of a trawl!! Aztec West is a huge "Business Park" covering many many square miles and I was, I guess, a bit disappointed with the TomTom not defining things more accurately. The TomTom shows the whole area and the roads and so I don't think that it is a map updating issue.

I think that I am going to find a space alongside the A-pillar to site my trusty Garmin. I just had this idea that bearing in mind the cost of "In car" optional GPS it was going to be a bit more usable that it appears to be. I won't start on the issues of reflections from a fixed angle screen preventing a good view of the screen...!
If we are talking of expense maybe you try "Co-Pilot"; a free (or it used to be the last time I tried) GPS that will run on a tablet or phone (sorry - you can't touch those - can you?) and they provide a very effective GPS navigator.
But Thanks anyway. You have put my mind at rest. It's not just me being ham fisted or ham brained...

HyFy (Geoffrey)

Google will give you a postcode for 1152 Aztec west of bs324tf - does tomtom recognise this?

Can you zoom into tomtom map view in the right area to see if the roads exist in tomtom ?

Pages 30-36 of this pdf suggests there may be an option for coordinates input...

http://download.tomtom.com/open/man...refman/Blue_and_Me-TomTom-2-LIVE-RG-en-GB.pdf

Thanks for the replies, Percymon. I just found the notifications in my Spam box!!

Re the Postcode. Yes I had the postcode but the TomTom wouldn't accept it either on it's own or as part of the address. I could zoom in onto the actual location of the building but there didn't seem to be a way of telling the thing that that was where I wanted to go. i.e. it wouldn't accept a screen touch.

I will check out your suggestion on the coordinates input and see how that goes.

Thanks for all of your help. It's always appreciated.

Geoffrey.

Thanks Percymon.

I've spent ages sitting in the 500 fiddling with the GPS, but find none of the menus mentioned in the .pdf you posted. I suspect that the Fiat version is basic - basic. Maybe I speak with the Dealer??

In the meantime, as we are "off" tomorrow a-framing the 500 to Cumbria, I've fitted an ancient Garmin Niuvi as a stop gap.

But thanks again for your help and suggestion.

Geoffrey (HyFy)

PS "percymon" sounds as though it should be from my mother's home in Northumberland rather than the Beacons which are only just down the road from me!!