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Nuvi 205 with French mapping issue

  • 12-06-2013 9:34am
    #1
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭


    Hopefully this is very straightforward, so apologies.

    Just purchased official garmin France, Benelux maps on SD card and inserted into the unit.

    Firstly do I have to do anything to activate it or will the unit automatically check it. I'm driving down to the vendee in a couple of weeks and when we try to enter the postcode for the region 85160 it won't accept it, also won't find the town ?

    Just to add to it, I'm in London and the sat nav is in cork with my wife, so I'm trying to guide her by phone !

    Any ideas


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,495 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    It normally selects and uses all maps it can find in internal memory and on the SD card. To check if it can see the France maps, display the map on the unit and press the minus (zoom out) button a few times until you can see western Europe, then gently scroll (drag the map) with your finger so that France is in the middle of the screen, now press the plus (zoom in) button a few times and it should zoom in to that part of France. Keep zooming until you can see icons for things like filling stations, restaurants and ATMs in which case you're in business. If you zoom into a rural part of the country where there are no features, just gently drag the map sideways until you find a small town or village but if you see an icon of any kind, it means you have detailed maps for that part of the world. Basic maps show only names of towns and roads, an icon showing a local feature or a commercial service means you have detailed maps.


  • #3
    pa990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭pa990


    when selecting an address, you have to change the country to France, then it will find teh french post codes


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