How to Input Camping Carpark Coordinates in Garmin Camper

[highwood122]

hello,i have a garmin camper sat nav 985 and cannot after several hours playing with it work out how to input the ccp coordinates they use into it.i am ok with other formats but theirs is beyond me. must admit that computers came to me very late in life.thanks in advance for any replies and i hope they will also help anyone as thick as me

 

[chaser]

Do you download the maps so you can use them off line or do you find you always have a signal? We use the Satnav when we don't have a signal when trying to plan a route but would like to be able to always use the phone.

Well you can if you want, but we have never found it a problem.
A smartphone with GPS surely uses the same signal as a sat nav.

 

[Broadway]

Search for Sites has a very good system, which is an ID for each site. For instance S3016S takes you directly to the CCP aire at Marseillan Plage. You download the file from the Search for Sites website and add it to your Garmin. You can the simply input the ID.

 

[LesW]

Well you can if you want, but we have never found it a problem.
A smartphone with GPS surely uses the same signal as a sat nav.

I don't think satnavs rely on phone signals

 

[chaser]

I don't think satnavs rely on phone signals

GPS.

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[Maxieras]

Latitude and Longitude coordinates can either be degrees, minutes and seconds (which is rare) OR Degrees, minutes and decimal minutes (most common at sea) or degrees and decimal degrees (common on land based applications).

The latitude (i.e. how far north of the equator) will be between 0 (at the equator) and 90 at the North Pole. You would normally be around the 45 to 55 degrees north while touring Europe. Some systems put the N at the beginning, some at the end - different conventions for different applications.

Latitude is East or West of Greenwhich. Since it can go halfway round the world, up to 180 degrees, it must be 3 figures. For Europe touring you would expect the number to be in the rough range W 004 to E 008 , Between 4 degrees west and 8 degrees east of Greenwhich.

The confusing bit is when the numbers are given as + or - instead of W or E. Minus is west.

So a latitude coordinate (second number) listed as -1.5678 would be entered into the Garmin as W001.5678 (Three digits for the number of degrees)

You may not have touched the settings on your Garmin but it allows you to change the format of your coordinate entries to match the degrees and decimal degrees system.

 

[Freo]

Re Garmin Sat Nav vs Google Maps …

My experience is that, while the Garmin is far from perfect as regards route selection, Google is fully worse. Here’s one of many from Google.

I’m in Spain, driving on the Right. I’m travelling North and approaching a roundabout where I need to turn Left (to the West) - i.e. take the 3rd exit.
Before I reach the roundabout, there is a slip road to the Right which leads to the road which heads East from the roundabout’s 1st exit - i.e. the slip road serves as a ‘roundabout bypass’ for people who would otherwise have to take the 1st exit to head East. With me so far?
Anyways, Google directs me to take this slip road on the Right, join the road heading East, then do a U turn, head West, and then go straight ahead at the roundabout.
I mean what the eff ???

As I hinted earlier, this was just one of many strange misdirections and my own experience has been much better with the Garmin. I totally agree that entering all the co-ords is a bit of a faff, but the end result is much greater reliability so worth the effort, in my opinion. Each to their own, though.

So why was I using Google? The Garmin battery had died.

 

[scotjimland]

Do you download the maps so you can use them off line or do you find you always have a signal? We use the Satnav when we don't have a signal when trying to plan a route but would like to be able to always use the phone.

I don't think satnavs rely on phone signals

The phone uses data to update the map as you travel, or you can download a map as chaser said ...but it wont be 'live' so no live traffic updates ..

Sat nav units have the maps stored

I've never had a problem with Google 'live' maps and used all over France .. but it does use a very small amount of phone data

Both smart phone and sat nav use GPS to track the vehicles progress

If you buy a tablet for this and tether to the phone for data .. make sure it has GPS... as you cant tether GPS from the phone

 

[LesW]

GPS.

My point was/is.. that unless you download the maps from Google as Jim says, without a phone signal you'll loose your phones satnav ability, though rare this has happened to me in Austria and (oddly) Norfolk when checking for road closures, which may not work with downloaded maps.

 

[chaser]

My point was/is.. that unless you download the maps from Google as Jim says, without a phone signal you'll loose your phones satnav ability, though rare this has happened to me in Austria and (oddly) Norfolk when checking for road closures, which may not work with downloaded maps.

Don't want an argument about this as it's not important but surely if you have a phone with GPS it's working on the same as a satnav so same result on both.

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[flyboyprowler]

I too have had trouble inputting the coordinates so thanks for the "cure". However, we are heavy weight and unless you can input weights into the google maps, the Garmin does a better job. We have often used the Waze app but have to be very cautious when navigating through towns. So, do Google maps cope with weight and size restrictions?

 

[scotjimland]

My point was/is.. that unless you download the maps from Google as Jim says, without a phone signal you'll loose your phones satnav ability, though rare this has happened to me in Austria and (oddly) Norfolk when checking for road closures, which may not work with downloaded maps.

you are correct.. it can happen.. but a very rare event..

I too have had trouble inputting the coordinates so thanks for the "cure". However, we are heavy weight and unless you can input weights into the google maps, the Garmin does a better job. We have often used the Waze app but have to be very cautious when navigating through towns. So, do Google maps cope with weight and size restrictions?

no.. if you ask Google this question it will say>>>

Google Maps are for private use... not designed for commercial use or with large or HGV vehicles

 

[chaser]

I too have had trouble inputting the coordinates so thanks for the "cure". However, we are heavy weight and unless you can input weights into the google maps, the Garmin does a better job. We have often used the Waze app but have to be very cautious when navigating through towns. So, do Google maps cope with weight and size restrictions?

Unfortunately not, Waze is owned by Google so although I have never used it ,I presume neither does that.
So I have no answer to that one I'm afraid as we are neither big or heavy we haven't found the need.

 

[LesW]

Don't want an argument about this as it's not important but surely if you have a phone with GPS it's working on the same as a satnav so same result on both.

No it doesn't work like that, without a signal your phone will not show maps (unless downloaded first), it will show where you are on a blank screen though.

Satnavs have all the maps already downloaded into the device.

 

[Widge]

Don't want an argument about this as it's not important but surely if you have a phone with GPS it's working on the same as a satnav so same result on both.

If you have a phone with downloaded maps, then it should be the same, but things like Google maps by default dont download the maps, but will work fine for a programmed in route, without a phone signal, until you make an error, then it cannot reroute.

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[highwood122]

It always makes me wonder when this arises, why do people still stick to all this old stuff to get about?
All you need is park4 night, CCP app and Google maps on your phone, that's it finished you can find any Aire or parking place or CCP .
Nothing to put in just get where you want to be up and your phone will automatically take you to the gate.
No coordinates, no sat nav just , as they say, click and go.
When we are parked in France the numerous people we have met that have to tell you they have found this wonderful app that finds Aires is amazing , something we have been using for 10 years and never been lost yet and they have only just found it.
Even then they are still faffing about trying to get it into a sat nav.

 

[highwood122]

w onder no more, cant see the speedo very well on the modern fiat so rely on sat nav speedo i find the phone to small to read to navigate and i want to stay at other than ccp sites

 

[slockyer]

hello,i have a garmin camper sat nav 985 and cannot after several hours playing with it work out how to input the ccp coordinates they use into it.i am ok with other formats but theirs is beyond me. must admit that computers came to me very late in life.thanks in advance for any replies and i hope they will also help anyone as thick as me

From the camping car park app, select the site you want to go to, then click the "Let' go" button and select Garmin drive icon. This will send it directly to your Garmin assuming you have Garmin Drive on your phone and set up on you GPS.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Holy moly I've not used coordinates for years

In Google maps just download a small area of your destination if you're worried about data connection. Surely we can all get to the destination area without any assistance

 

[Richard n Ann]

hello,i have a garmin camper sat nav 985

Are you sure it's not 1985

Sorry, it's not funny

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[highwood122]

Are you sure it's not 1985

Sorry, it's not funny

got a few people going though. and i now know that which i wanted thanks again