Spooky, somehow you have misunderstood me.

In theory you can load the device up with your HOME as a way point named HOME and then navigate to it by navigating to HOME.
Sadly it does not have my address in its database, although everyone else has the 200 year old farm named correctly.
If i fire it up in my back yard and set where I am as Home. It gives me an address that is 7 miles off. Although it does know the actual position of my HOME, it cant identify it and it takes me to the place that it can identify which is 7 miles away.

It would be nice if Garmin had some sort of after sales service.

I am another in the garmin dark. Just bought a n oregon 550. I have learned what a way point is and now am going to routes and tracks and routable and gpx and mapsourse and
At least I got an instruction cd and had it downloaded in my netbook.
It definitaly requires more knowledge then required for my nuvi 265.
Huge learning curve right off but hopefully it will level out soon.
Good luck
Bill

I have a Garmin 2610 and am pretty pleased with it, although near to my house it ALWAYS wants to send me a longer route, whatever I set it to?:confused1:
I learnt more from Tim Cullis when he gave a presentation about them at the HU meet in Ripley a couple of years back than I ever did from the manual
oldbmw, you are lucky, my 2610 thinks my home is in Taiwan!!!

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Got the same problem even on Google-earth, Google-maps, and visitors can't find my place (it's a 150 year old farm in the middle of nowhere as well) with there navi toys... never bothered me.. regarding using my own waypoints (even my own waypoint did move around on the display over the years regarding the "miss-configurations of the satellite for civilian use"), so again, never rely on any database. My guess is that all this hightech services doing a good job in dense areas, but if it comes to country sides, well the exactness of there databases uploaded to there units is always less precise... not even to mention the shift for civilian use...

I agree with your wish in definitely ! luckily I never had to ask them...

here the important information of Garmins user manual, may explaining a bit dull that you can't relay on there units:
the small print:
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One of the goal of Garmin is to provide customers with the most complete and accurate cartography that is available to us at reasonable cost. We use a combination of governmental and private data sources, which we identify in product literature and copyright messages displayed to the consumer. Virtually all data sources contain some inaccurate or incomplete data. In some countries, complete and accurate map information is either not available or is prohibitively expensive.
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well... there you go... as I tried to explain... never ever rely on any electronic device, at all, always use your common sense.
I guess you have to set your HOME as a "waypoint" and store it!
switch the "auto routing OFF" and navigating to your HOME from a distance use the "GO TO" option in the unit, that will direct you to your fixed waypoint, instead of using the internal database, which can never be perfect.

spooky

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