Hi, Is it possible to search using Post Code. The first line of search entry seems to be City followed by Street, no place for Post Code as far as I can see. If this is the case then it is pretty useless. I may not need it, as with Car Play I can use Google or Apple Maps or Waze, but just wanted to see how the Skoda system worked, if it does?

I have had another “play” and solved it. There is another button top right which then allows you to enter a post code as a search address. 
I expect like most post code searches it only takes you to somewhere within it, not sure if one can narrow it down at all, as some postcodes cover quite a large patch.

Hi

Can you send a pic of where this other button is on screen, please.

Hi,

I will try and do so next time I am in the car, I did try out the Amundsen navigation today and I really don't like it compared with Apple or Google Maps. Seriously irritating voice instructions and less visible info such as ETA.

We’ve a 2020 Sportline and initially found the destinations just as irritating insofar as I understand the system centres on the midpoint of the postcode. On another members advise I now use the street name as my location, it takes a fraction longer to input but seems to work fine.

Ironically I had a ten-year old Freelander before the Karoq and never had any issues with that satnav system

On 02/07/2023 at 12:36, Toolie said:

Hi

Can you send a pic of where this other button is on screen, please.

This is an edited shot from the Digital manual. Click the button marked 1st on the Nav screen, and the screen changes to this shot, then click the button Top right marked 2nd. This then allows Post Code entry and search. It does work but seems a bit clunky?

Hope this helps?

Edited 3 July, 20232 yr by baxlobs
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I use built-in and stick on GPS devices on both 2 wheels and 4 and learned long ago NOT to trust Post Codes on their own.

 

Often take you to a field.

 

Street is often a safer bet.

 

And when planning from the comfort of my couch, I use google maps to locate and pinpoint my destination.

 

Haven't missed a hotel yet 🙂

This navigation is big piece of sh***!!!I travel in Europe and all the time(all the time)!!!she directed me from the highway to the side roads.

The worst navigation ever!!!!

4 hours ago, Dred07 said:

This navigation is big piece of sh***!!!I travel in Europe and all the time(all the time)!!!she directed me from the highway to the side roads.

The worst navigation ever!!!!

Try getting VAG to acknowledge that !!

I struggled at first & after 7 or 8 months intermittent "playing" with it managed to get some of the basics to reveal their secrets.

I now usually use Waze + Android Auto for detailed, accurate information (but see below).

The car has the wireless charging facility but my mobile doesn't - hence a USBc to USBmicro cable. The phone is held in a Brodit holder to the left of the gear lever.

I've been able to input destinations to both the built-in unit & Waze, and generally display the built-in unit mapping (which, perhaps oddly, I prefer to the Waze graphics) but with Waze running in the background. Waze, of course, broadcasts any traffic announcements as usual.

I find Waze instructions, guidance etc. to be very good.

Several threads on this forum & others (inc. Facebook group(s)) would suggest that VAG couldn't give a sh** (what you said above!) - they've got your money so why should they bother?

On 07/10/2023 at 07:20, Dred07 said:

This navigation is big piece of sh***!!!I travel in Europe and all the time(all the time)!!!she directed me from the highway to the side roads.

The worst navigation ever!!!!

Check the 'Parameters for route calculation'.

You might have 'Avoid motorways' or other 'Avoids' ticked.

 

The icon for 'Parameters for route calculation' is a view of a road tapering off in the distance with a view of a gear overlaid.

Press the icon and a list of 'Avoids' will appear.

No,no!everything is set up properly!

On 07/10/2023 at 07:20, Dred07 said:

This navigation is big piece of sh***!!!I travel in Europe and all the time(all the time)!!!she directed me from the highway to the side roads.

The worst navigation ever!!!!

 

I do agree.... In Wales the built in sat nav tried to take me off a good fast "A" road to go on a "B" road which rejoined several hundred yards further on. 

It did get me to take the narrowest track I have been on, over a bridge with an inch or two clearance on each side. There were no opportunities to turn around. I was only using the nav out of desperation, Google Maps had no signal unfortunately.

3 hours ago, Toolie said:

Check the 'Parameters for route calculation'.

You might have 'Avoid motorways' or other 'Avoids' ticked.

 

The icon for 'Parameters for route calculation' is a view of a road tapering off in the distance with a view of a gear overlaid.

Press the icon and a list of 'Avoids' will appear.

I have to wonder how many different versions of the Amundson there are.

Mine is '23 facelift car, one year & one day old today.

Following my earlier post, and your reply above, I've just spent half an hour in the car,  trying to take up your suggestion(s), but nowhere in the screens is an icon such as you describe.

I'm giving up on trying to get to grips with all its features, and will continue to use the hybrid version of built-in & Waze as previously described.

The problem with Waze is that it too can take you down some horrendously narrow lanes if you are rural.  I followed some questions on the Waze support forums some years back but they did not seem overly concerned to implement it for the UK. The only option was to have the local commnuity editors mark every lane of such a nature as a "no go lane" - Like that is going to happen with the 10's thousands of crappy narrow lanes in the UK. 

 

https://support.google.com/waze/thread/184898333/how-can-i-avoid-narrow-lanes-in-the-uk?hl=en

https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=293000

 

Waze was originally developed for the fastest route regardless of narrow lanes and back streets - that was its purpose in life. Problem is that in most of the UK there is a sensible route and there is an "on paper" fastest route taking you down home hairy lanes that barely have any passing places - all to save 1 minute on a journey where, in reality, you can barely do 10mph down some of them due to the narrowness as opposed to the 60 they are set to in law.  I asked about making all narrow lanes 10mph, which would fix the issue but again, that would require silly amounts of local community editor input. I have had some horrors myself using both Google Maps and Waze so they are all as bad as each other in my view.  Currently I am experimenting with Amigo and that seems more forgiving but you do have to have internet all the time for it to work which, in the UK, in some rural areas is not the case. At least with Google maps you can download local maps and the navigation can continue if you lose mobile data for a few minutes.  

 

Try driving through Exmoor or Dartmoor and you will know what I mean 🙂

 

 

Been there, done that.

 

I used to live in Bridestowe.

For me best results-here(off Line)!!!

On 10/10/2023 at 15:53, IanPerry316 said:

I have to wonder how many different versions of the Amundson there are.

Mine is '23 facelift car, one year & one day old today.

Following my earlier post, and your reply above, I've just spent half an hour in the car,  trying to take up your suggestion(s), but nowhere in the screens is an icon such as you describe.

I'm giving up on trying to get to grips with all its features, and will continue to use the hybrid version of built-in & Waze as previously described.

These two screenshots are what I see when I select a route that I have previously travelled using the sat nav.

The icon in question ('Parameters for route calculation') is in the bottom r.h. corner - tapping on it displays the 'Avoids' screen.

 

I am not sure if that icon is displayed when searching for a new route, from scratch.

 

 

Satnav can be a nightmare. I once had to meet a colleague at M1 J30 to hand over some kit. From there I was dropping something off to my sister at Eckington just north of J30, then going to Rotherham Fire Station. When leaving Eckington I entered the address of the FS (in detail) and asked for the most economical route. It took me backto J30, up the M1 onto the M18 to J1 and then on some main roads into the town - 19 miles total. I asked the same question but with shortest route and that came up 11 miles - so I followed it. Agghhhh!!!!! At one point where the A618 did some bends round a couple of housing estates, it took me off the A618 and through the estate to join the.....A618! It took me about 40 minutes to do 11 miles, whereas the motorway would have taken about 25 tops

Nowadays I know the main roads and just use the satnav as a street map at the end!