Not having the facility to navigate using 7 digit postcodes :thumbdwn: on the MFD2 was a real bind for me so i have come up with a soloution. It not quite as easy, but its better than nothing.

Using the following link, Streetmaps has a great free tool for converting postcodes into lat and long coordinates.

Grid Conversion Results

You can then enter these into your MFD2 using the 'Position Dest.' option when in the Nav destination menu. Hey presto, as good as entering the postcode .

For info, the post code used as the example in the above link is First Direct Bank which is a well advertised address.

Hope this is usefull to some of you!

Cunning idea.

I often find it better to go via a street name with the MFD2 rather than postcode.

Works fine if you have a street name, but with living in the back of beyond, most of my customers dont have one, hence the need for postcode!

Its a good idea and will probably work well in most cases but it will not work for all. You seem to only be able to put the postcode in, and postcodes are not always that accurate. If you did that to find my house you would still be over a mile away and in the wrong village, but we are used to delivery drivers phoning for directions

A mile away with a 7 digit? :eek: Where the heck do you live??

Good idea with the MFD2 that

Steve

Its a good idea and will probably work well in most cases but it will not work for all. You seem to only be able to put the postcode in, and postcodes are not always that accurate. If you did that to find my house you would still be over a mile away and in the wrong village, but we are used to delivery drivers phoning for directions

Chances are though, when the post code is that far out, it will be in a built up area so you can fall back on house number and street name.

Parcelforce use a data set provided by Esri.com the same data set is used by Getmapping who try and sell you ariel photos. Unfortunately it is about 3km out

again putting you in wrong village. Thus numbers and road names fall down.

Even involving OS offices does not improve matters as they recently sent requesting we confirm exactly where on a map we are!!

Provided 6 fig co-ords but never got a reply.

Everyone of above swear blind that it is correct but surprisingly Streemap,multimap, google earth, google maps are dead accurate.

Then I suppose quasi state organisations are always right - yeah!!

I was just pointing out problems with the OP's suggestion, but it equally refers to just using a postcode. The road I live on happens to be a main A road that has the same name for 5 miles, the postcode will bring you to the middle of the road it refers to and only a number/name will get you any closer.

You could of course try finding it on google earth which would give you exact coordinates of your destination.