> Phew! You can see ear as the first 3 letters? Great - that's part of the
> early rhubarb nonsense
> that I can see. Not any of my real addresses.

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:02:33 +0100, "Old Strebuggart" yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>

>>I've got a Mio 168 with integral GPS for walking but it has not got

>>Mobile on it. I was told I can download this from Microsoft website and

>>activesync to load it on to the machine. I can't see where this is

>>on the website and if anyone can provide a link i would be grateful, also
>>any info on using activesync, as I'm not 'well up' on this sort of thing.
>>Once I have windows mobile I can then apparently use my memory map

>>on it.
>>

> So basically, when you turn it on, nothing happens (no display, no GPS,
> nothing) :-).
> ...

> My wife recently bought her first sat-nav, a Garmin Nuvi. Not to be
> outdone I bought a Tom Tom XL. Neither products were to hand on a
> recent trip to Germany, where we used a rented Astra with a built-in
> sat-nav. We were disappointed that it wouldn't navigate us to a very
> popular tourist spot, a large lake called Kemnade See, near the town
> of Witten.
>
> On our return we've just checked whether our own units (both equipped
> with European maps) could find Kemnade. I was unhappy to find that her
> Garmin did but my Tom-Tom didn't. I found Witten for example, but no
> KEMNADE. Is that typical? Is the Garmin database known to be more
> comprehensive than the Tom-Tom's?

>So did you see a lake near Witten? Or look it up on internet maps to see if
>there's an alternative name/spelling? Do either devices offer approximations
>like M$ Autoroute Europe 2002 is offering me (all over the world!). (It does
>find a Haus Kemnade in a road of that name that crosses the Ruhr near a
>bulge that might be a lake. But the bulge is not named.

> My wife recently bought her first sat-nav, a Garmin Nuvi. Not to be
> outdone I bought a Tom Tom XL. Neither products were to hand on a
> recent trip to Germany, where we used a rented Astra with a built-in
> sat-nav. We were disappointed that it wouldn't navigate us to a very
> popular tourist spot, a large lake called Kemnade See, near the town
> of Witten.
>
> On our return we've just checked whether our own units (both equipped
> with European maps) could find Kemnade. I was unhappy to find that her
> Garmin did but my Tom-Tom didn't. I found Witten for example, but no
> KEMNADE. Is that typical? Is the Garmin database known to be more
> comprehensive than the Tom-Tom's?