When pubs submit adverts to your magazine, do you think you could give a gentle nudge to those that do not include a complete postcode? Although I am a pedestrian I have used GPS in the past to find out-of- the-way pubs, and a postcode really helps!
In message , Offramp wrote
It's hard enough getting a location let alone a post code :)
Some publicans think that their pub name alone is enough. Whilst this may work for the more famous (or infamous) pubs in an area it doesn't help if your are in the sticks and trying to build the business from a low base.
It would be far more useful to use the National Grid Reference; post codes can cover quite a large area in rural areas. Unfortunately the leading brands of sat nav units designed for in car use don't support NGR; I think Garmin do.
In article , Jim Backus writes
Always assuming that the author or information provider can get that right. I have seen a guide where the northing and easting have been transposed and the pair of letters replaced with OS, this placed a Devonshire pub somewhere in the North Sea
There is a rude method of remembering which comes first with your easting and northing.
I assumed it was one of those peculiar CAMRA GBG Rules that you drop the 2 letters in preference to "OS" to indicate Ordnance Survey.
In article , Brian Waine writes
There is a polite one too; in the door (eastings are the horizontals) and up the stairs (the northings).
Roy.
In article , Nathaniel Savage writes
It was the GBG, I think the pub was the Duke of York at Iddesleigh, and 'catamiting' the NGR was idiotic to say the lest.
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