

| Subject: | Re: cheap GPS |
| From: | Roger Whittaker |
| Date: | Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:13:56 -0800 |
dear screen challenged we have the MadgeLAN road mate and love it ... large enough to see at a glance with out glasses the interface took a little getting used to cause as You say it is a little "backward" but once you get used to it and have made a few trips ur addresses are stored and it runs very well just a note ..... I especially liked it in Portland ... spent a week there while working through a break down ... had a second vehicle with us and used the gps in the second vehicle loved it on those multi lane freeways with the a - b - c - d exits to unfamiliar streets that would get you to where you need to be ... m iss one and it takes. many. miles to get back regards On Sunday, November 13, 2011, Zeitgeist <gruengeist@gmail.com> wrote: > I finally received my Magellan, and it works very well. I unpacked it from > the box, and quickly jumped in my car for a biz trip down to Portland. One > thing I noticed is that it won't accept the street number in the address > field, until after you've input the street. This seems pretty screwy, > since my destination address was 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland, OR 97232 > (Oregon Metro), but I had to enter Grand Ave. first, and then the number. > Inputting my home address faced the same challenge. I can't figure out if > this can be user configured differently. Anyone else experience this? > > -- > Casey > -- roger w From Proverbs: Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a servant who becomes king ... ---------------------------------------------------------- Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ View the growing list of video work at: http://www.youtube.com/user/LastonLastof#g/u http://www.prpeak.com/articles/2010/11/29/multimedia/video/doc4c62e5f80d228504902172.txt
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