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As an emergency coordinator in a somewhat rural area, I was hoping my new TomTom GO510 would be the answer to finding locations. Unless you know the city or incorporated area, it's useless. We still have to have a paper map/atlas to look up the address and then figure out what "city" it falls in, if any. If we are lucky, we can determine the city after a couple of failed attempts and find our destination. Should it be outside a known city, then we can not use the TomTom at all.
Perhaps an optional "advanced" search option might be in order, such as asking the STATE, COUNTY, STREET/ROAD and NUMBER, then it would give CITY options from which to choose if more than one occurance of the street/road name appeared. We usually have a vague idea of the destination location. A simple "back" would work if the wrong city was chosen. This would sure help speed up the location-finding and driving directions capabilities of the TomTom.
Since the USA map is one huge file, this should only be a search sequence change. Of course, Lon/Lat are unknown as doing a "browse" map function would not help if you don't know exactly where you are going in the first place. Does anyone have ideas on getting around this problem away from a computer with internet where Google Maps could be used?
Perhaps an optional "advanced" search option might be in order, such as asking the STATE, COUNTY, STREET/ROAD and NUMBER, then it would give CITY options from which to choose if more than one occurance of the street/road name appeared. We usually have a vague idea of the destination location. A simple "back" would work if the wrong city was chosen. This would sure help speed up the location-finding and driving directions capabilities of the TomTom.
Since the USA map is one huge file, this should only be a search sequence change. Of course, Lon/Lat are unknown as doing a "browse" map function would not help if you don't know exactly where you are going in the first place. Does anyone have ideas on getting around this problem away from a computer with internet where Google Maps could be used?
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