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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:11:06 +1100, Blanco wrote:

If you have a recent smart phone you can use the GPS to mark the
location too.


If you have GPS on so you don't have to wait 5 mins until it has
worked out where it is.


None of the current smartphones take anything like
that long now. And you'd normally have it on anyway.

Not accurate down to the car. You need the photo too.


It ought to get you within beeper range though.


Not in underground carparks or those big multistory parking stations.

Old car was about 20 yds, new car is nearer 50.


Very handy to get to roughly where the car
is and start looking at individual cars tho.


Looking at cars when it's a hire car that you can't remember anything
about other than if being "a car" doesn't help. B-)


That's why you take a photo of it including the plate.