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2018-08-24 , 08:42
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Originally Posted by rinigus View Post
Can you specify how do you expect this to work. Do you just type in the postcode and get coordinates to drive to? Or do you specify post code and some additional information?
Postcode only! I don't know anyone in the UK who puts more than just the postcode into a satnav, like Pichlo said the mapping between postcode and coordinates is quite precise.

Let's say you are navigating to a house, 99% of the time the postcode would take you within 100m of the house and you'd just be looking at house numbers from that point. For something like a supermarket, the postcode would probably take you to the centre of the car park.

We don't tend to have long residential roads with 100s of houses either, typically the number of houses on a street would be less than 50.
 

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