help needed for a thicko

[Richie3264]

Have got a SP III and I am finding my way around it quite well for simpleton but..... and heres the question......how do imput co-ordinates

Ive been through the manual a few times and to me the closest I can find is how to make a way point, but this reads to me that you mark the way point as in the spot you are at, not the "place" you want to find and have not previously been to. thats not really clear is it try again.

how do I imput map co-ordinates whilst out on the road. I intend to take part in a kind of motorcycling orienteering and need to imput co-ordinates as we go along

There is something so simple that I am missing but whilst using the sat nav Im now losing my way (pardon the pun, lol)

 

[Paul Rochdale]

My StreetPilot III went back into it's box a couple of years ago as I found it so difficult to use. I used it perhaps only a dozen times or so but each time I had to re-learn how to operate it as I'd forgotten in the mean time. I'm certain most people can cope with them but I reverted to maps which I'm far, far happier with. I couldn't get on with when I wanted to get a route from A to B, I had to press a hundred buttons all in the correct sequence or else I was f***ed. In the mean time, I'd glanced at a map and was already on my way. The screen was impossible to see on a bright day, then I got paranoid about leaving it on the bike when I was parked. Nobody steals maps.

Then I could mention the loading on the computer of the necessary software, connecting up all sorts of cables, finding I couldn't get all of the USA or Europe on there, trying to sort out routes, oh my God.....

 

[Steptoe]

Ive been through the manual a few times and to me the closest I can find is how to make a way point, but this reads to me that you mark the way point as in the spot you are at, not the "place" you want to find and have not previously been to. thats not really clear is it try again.

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it's a while since i had your model of GPS

But going from memory, you make a waypoint as you've said above. Then you edit the co-ords to the ones you need to input, and you give it a name or number. job done.

 

[Steptoe]

My StreetPilot III went back into it's box a couple of years ago as I found it so difficult to use. ....

Ahh yes, the only man in history not to bring his GPS to a GPS workshop as i remember

 

[Richie3264]

Ahh yes, the only man in history not to bring his GPS to a GPS workshop as i remember

Thanks for the advice, as usual, spot on, the Sp III is a pig to work, but at the mo, beggars cant be choosers

Thanks again

Richie