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#1240563 17-Feb-2015 09:28

Tried the address in the OP on my Note 3 this morning. HERE, Sygic and Google Maps are all happy to take me there (via the ferry) from Auckland.

Maybe the Garmin was just having a bad day!?

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#1240572 17-Feb-2015 09:36

This is from the Marlborough District Council property map. The property title and all compliance documents are all listed as 2 Rose Street.

We had a conditional offer accepted for a section in Rose Street two years ago, but pulled out because it would have been utter madness. Six months after we pulled out, the council announced permission had been given to build a dozen new properties on the open paddock next to the section we were going to build on. I don't know what we were thinking, because it makes us shudder when we think how close we were to making the biggest mistake in our lives.

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#1240624 17-Feb-2015 10:23

BigHammer: I haven't used a stand alone GPS unit for some time. Sygic or HERE Maps on my Note 3 has it covered.

Does it work with no cell coverage?

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#1240632 17-Feb-2015 10:27

TLD: This is from the Marlborough District Council property map. The property title and all compliance documents are all listed as 2 Rose Street.

We had a conditional offer accepted for a section in Rose Street two years ago, but pulled out because it would have been utter madness. Six months after we pulled out, the council announced permission had been given to build a dozen new properties on the open paddock next to the section we were going to build on. I don't know what we were thinking, because it makes us shudder when we think how close we were to making the biggest mistake in our lives.

Councils do dumb things.

I used to pass a water meadow adjacent to the A14 in Cambridgeshire regularly. It was a water meadow for a reason - it flooded most winters and you could see ducks on it.

After a few years consent was granted to develop it into a housing estate...!! I had visions of Barratt Homes with self-inflating life rafts mounted on the wall outside the first floor bedroom window!

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#1240659 17-Feb-2015 10:36

HERE and Sygic both have full maps stored on the device. Don't recall if I've tried either with mobile data turned off.

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#1240676 17-Feb-2015 10:58

If you install our free autorouting - updated weekly - NZ Open GPS Project mapset on your nuvi you may just find the address. (-;

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#1240963 17-Feb-2015 16:05

BigHammer: HERE and Sygic both have full maps stored on the device. Don't recall if I've tried either with mobile data turned off.

I often go places in NZ where there is no mobile data to turn off...! ;-)

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#1240970 17-Feb-2015 16:15

Geektastic: Why would the motel itself give a wrong address on their own website?!

Because 2 Rose Street sounds much more quiet and peaceful than being on a State Highway

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#1240980 17-Feb-2015 16:41

BigHammer: Tried the address in the OP on my Note 3 this morning. HERE, Sygic and Google Maps are all happy to take me there (via the ferry) from Auckland.

Maybe the Garmin was just having a bad day!?

My nuvi 2497 finds the address ok. Part of the trouble may be Garmins cack handed search. You enter Blenheim then street number and start entering the street name and it will autocomplete with only the streets it thinks has that number in them.

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#1241111 17-Feb-2015 21:00

Geektastic:
BigHammer: HERE and Sygic both have full maps stored on the device. Don't recall if I've tried either with mobile data turned off.

I often go places in NZ where there is no mobile data to turn off...! ;-)

I can feel a 'GPS forces tourists to drive the Rainbow road to get to Nelson' post or two coming on

. I love that road.

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