New Magellan GPS
There are generally quite a few topic in here on GPS's and how to select your own route for them. Just today I got an e-mail from Magellan about a new Smart GPS. In the video that accompanied the e-...
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I got a chance to play a little more with this and I like it so far. On other GPS's I have had in the preferences you could always set it up to select the fastest route, the shortest route, or the route to avoid highways. You don't do that with this one. When you select your go to location it shows you all three routes and then gives you buttons to select fastest, shortest, or least highways. You still have the options in the setup screens to select avoid toll roads and avoid u-turns.
If you still don't like the route the GPS selects for you, you can use your smart phone to select another destination. If you want to take a different road just select a spot on that road directly on the map on your smart phone. Select to send it to the GPS and when it gets to the GPS you get to select to add it to the current route, or use it as a new route. Just add it to the current route and select go and it takes you there first and then on to your destination. I don't know how many extra points you can add, but it looks like you can add multiple ones.
And again you can do all the routing and everything from your smart phone instead of leaning over and trying to do it on the GPS unit on the dash. I do really like that. I have the computer part set up but haven't played with making routes on the computer yet. That's probably something I won't use a lot anyway.
If you still don't like the route the GPS selects for you, you can use your smart phone to select another destination. If you want to take a different road just select a spot on that road directly on the map on your smart phone. Select to send it to the GPS and when it gets to the GPS you get to select to add it to the current route, or use it as a new route. Just add it to the current route and select go and it takes you there first and then on to your destination. I don't know how many extra points you can add, but it looks like you can add multiple ones.
And again you can do all the routing and everything from your smart phone instead of leaning over and trying to do it on the GPS unit on the dash. I do really like that. I have the computer part set up but haven't played with making routes on the computer yet. That's probably something I won't use a lot anyway.
