[Pvanv]

Vaho,
A much better fix would be a way to fix an iPad or android tablet with Google maps to the dashboard and get rid of SMEG altogether! I have just spent half an hour sitting in the car trying to find places I have to go tomorrow on the satnav, and have given up. My car is 2016, and the satnav could do with a serious User Interface upgrade. For tomorrow, I will be fixing the phone to the windscreen and using Google. For me SMEG is a total failure.

 

[Pvanv]

Davew,
Thank you for your research, and apologies if I seem short. I do not really want to be considered some sort of satnav troll. As you've noticed, my posts started some two years ago when I got my Cactus. It is my first car with an integral satnav. The feature has been quite a disappointment to me, but, as it's button constantly glows at the bottom left of the touchscreen whenever I drive somewhere, I do occasionally put it on to use as a moving map for information, or to give it another try.

The car itself is fine, and the satnav is probably fine if your in a country where addresses are standardised and the postcodes are accepted by it, but I have found it very disappointing. If it were a stand alone consumer product, I would probably have returned it to the retailer about two years ago.

Still puzzled?

 

[Pvanv]

As I have to use another internet connected device to find the lat/long coordinates of my destination, and convert them to deg/mins/secs to suit the SMEG entry format, it is simply much more convenient, and less error prone, to search for the destination on Google Maps on the phone, and when it is found, click "directions" and "drive" and clip the phone to the windscreen. It is just a pity the car can't mirror the phone's screen. Google actually issues it's verbal instructions through the Bluetooth connection to the cars sound system.

 

[Pvanv]

Davew,
It is quite random, I was looking to get to Kerry Regional Airport, but the satnav will not permit the entry of Farrenfore, the town where the airport is located . I was then surprised that is accepted Tourmakeady, which was unexpected. It does not accept the Irish postcodes(Eircodes), although it does accept those of other countries( UK and Netherlands at least).

 

[Pvanv]

Davew,
An example of my issues with SMEG: I had to go to a small town in the west of Ireland called Westport (pop. about 6,000). I admit it is not a city, but the entry fields are restricted to Cities.
When I type W-E-S-T into the "City" field, and it jumps to "Westtown. Co. Waterford" and does not allow the entry of any more letters. It effectively gives a choice of one, but Westtown is a small village (much smaller than Westport) some 315 km from Westport (according to Google Maps). Not much use to me.