wellinever said:
How that is possible I do not know? The country is divided into 124 areas denoted by the first two letters of the outward half of the postcard.
Wonders of the world. What I know and what is known to the programmers of the 950 might not be the same.
Here is an exercise for all 950 users :
Post code is AL5 3LZ (in this case 363 Luton Road). If you enter the post code by itself the ONLY city option you will be given is St. Albans (since the AREA is the same it make sense). HOWEVER this post code is in Harpenden which the system
does not let you choose as an option. (I suspect the same address exist in St. Albans as well because the 950 tried to take me there).
If you try to put the full address Then the city name line will suddenly change to "Harpenden AL5 3xx".
Exercise No. 2 : After Harpenden I had to go to Cranfield airport post code MK43 0AL. Entering the post code, again the ONLY city option was Bedford (Same area but good few miles away) but when reverting to entering the address manually (the city in this case is Cranfield airfield) it comes up with "Cranfield Airfield MK43 0xx".
Needless to say my Gramin didn't had any of this ... after entering the post code he knew exactly where he was going to.
Another odd thing is that stand alone Sat Nav's (at least the Garmin's and Tom Tom's I was using) are updated at least twice a year. roads are changing (maybe not in central London in the rest of the country certainly) and no update cycle is available from Vx. I was looking in the HERE shop which is the company responsible for our nav databases and the last update was for MY 2014 where 3 update cycles from other OEM's have already been through.