GO 6200 advice please

[Kalzzar]

Hello everyone. I hope that somebody on here can impart their knowledge - I've done a few searches online but I've found nothing to help.
I have a GO6200 which, for the most part, does the job well enough. I do, however, have a few problems and questions that I'd like to ask about though......

1) In my line of work, I have to travel to many small villages and rural locations. In many of these instances, the TT does not find the location by it's postcode and I have to resort to Google Maps to find the location (which it always does). This isn't a problem in towns and cities as TT always finds the postcode location, but dozens of times in rural locations it just can't find anything at all.

2) When I am using TT for directions, it will say something like "Turn left and head towards................." it never gives a name of where I should be heading towards.

3) Although 'Avoid Toll Roads' is activated, it doesn't identify any of the toll zones, particularly in places like Bath and Bristol, which both have Toll Zones for clean air. I received a PCN the other day for going through a toll zone in Bristol which I didn't realise I was going through. The route chosen by TT took me right through a section of toll zone without informing me I was going to go through one.

Can anyone offer any solutions or advice please?

 

[Willy875]

Hi

To question (1)
find a location using a postal code not all postal codes are referenced there are several villages with the same postal code.

To question (2)

This is because you have not selected a synthetic voice, select Malcolm or Serena.

To question (3)
The GO 6200 does not have the option to Avoid Low Emission Zones.

 

[Kalzzar]

Hi

To question (1)
find a location using a postal code not all postal codes are referenced there are several villages with the same postal code.

To question (2)

This is because you have not selected a synthetic voice, select Malcolm or Serena.

To question (3)
The GO 6200 does not have the option to Avoid Low Emission Zones.

Thanks for your answers @Willy875

In reply:
Question 1. Your answer doesn't make any sense - postcodes in the UK cover a small area and NEVER cover more than one village. Also, if it was the case, as you say, that post codes cover more than one area, A) Why does TomTom not identify it and at least offer alternatives rather than just not finding it, and B) why does Google maps always manage to identify the postcode that TomTom can't?

Question 2. I am, and always have used Serena as my voice.

Question 3. WHY does TT maps not include Low Emission Zones? It's just a serious of toll roads. TT manages to identify all other toll roads so why not these ones?

 

[Willy875]

Street postcodes in the UK.
To search using these types of zip codes, enter the zip code, leave a space, and optionally enter the street number.
For example “1017CT 35”. Your GPS then plans a route to a specific building on a given street.


Unless I'm mistaken, low emission zones are not available on the GO 6200

Only the GO Discover, GO Camper Max, GO Exclusive have this function.

 

[elton]

The Go Discover doesn't have LEZ ... read on here months ago that it did once but was then removed on subsequent updates.

 

[TonyGr]

Thanks for your answers @Willy875

In reply:
Question 1. Your answer doesn't make any sense - postcodes in the UK cover a small area and NEVER cover more than one village. Also, if it was the case, as you say, that post codes cover more than one area, A) Why does TomTom not identify it and at least offer alternatives rather than just not finding it, and B) why does Google maps always manage to identify the postcode that TomTom can't?

Question 2. I am, and always have used Serena as my voice.

Question 3. WHY does TT maps not include Low Emission Zones? It's just a serious of toll roads. TT manages to identify all other toll roads so why not these ones?

In reply to point 1
My Sister in Law lives in rural Wales. The postcode for her cottage covers an area more than a couple of miles square due to the small number of farms and cottages spread out across the countryside. Using the postcode takes you to the centre of the code area and nowhere near her cottage. I originally placed it, on the TomTom, by using Google, knowing the location, to produce the latitude and Longitude and then saving it to MyPlaces.
My understanding is that in towns and cities postcodes will relate to individual streets. In more rural areas with few properties per road then a postcode may cover a number of roads and in very rural areas it works as above. North Wales is particularly prone to this as many of their villages are not communities as the English village but a collection of landholdings each with a farmhouse and associated cottages.

 

[Jfc46]

WHAT3WORDS in rural areas is more accurate but is not available on their systems