Compass! How come I never found that before?

[moltuae]

Originally Posted by David's8

I tried it once and gave up due to the length of time to enter the co-ords into RNS_D. I looked at doing it for the last annual meet where some of the stops were at random points along the road but it was too much of a faff and I guessed that the forum members were there to enjoy a drive and not to discover their satnav functionality.

It takes maybe a minute longer (if that) to enter coordinates, than it does to enter a postcode or address, once you get used to doing it.

Granted, it may take maybe 2 or 3 minutes to find the location and get its coordinates from Google Maps/Earth, but you could easily lose more time than that trying to find a house number or address when you arrive at the general location provided by post code input.

[Professor Peach]

Originally Posted by moltuae

Select map/compass view (which displays the map), then simply press the right-hand knob to toggle between map and compass.

Cool - tried it last night. Never seen that before! I'm not sure it's any use whatsoever, but it looks good (a bit like the wife).

Is there anything else in these cars I didn't know existed I wonder. Perhaps I should do the very un-blokey thing and read my owners handbook.

[David's8]

Originally Posted by Professor Peach

Cool - tried it last night. Never seen that before! I'm not sure it's any use whatsoever, but it looks good (a bit like the wife).

Is there anything else in these cars I didn't know existed I wonder. Perhaps I should do the very un-blokey thing and read my owners handbook.

I guess that Mrs Peach doesnt read this forum!
Real men would have thrown the manual away but I have to admit to reading it cover to cover which is where i found out about lat/long entry but as I said earlier and was mentioned by others, faffing about with decimal degrees or degrees and decimal minutes or degrees/mins/secs makes it all a bit long winded. If you are into these things, there is an properly validated conversion tool which also deals with OSGB (eastings/northings) on the Ordnance Survey site.

[Professor Peach]

Originally Posted by David's8

I guess that Mrs Peach doesnt read this forum!

No, not normally, but if she did would be flattered and not notice that I insulted her at the start of the sentence....... I hope.