GPS update - your mapping software obsolete?

GPS updates and improvements are coming faster and faster these days. Portable and GPS dashboard are now available in many new cars and trucks, standards, and the use of GPS in everyday life are rapidly.

Drivers expect more from their GPS vehicle as a detailed road maps and highway. Do you want to speed limits, driving times and know where the traffic is backed up is expected. They want to know the position of gas station or post office, or restaurant.

Gps Map Updates

The GPS technology uses signals from satellites of the exact location of a user to determine the military. But most of the time, knowing the exact latitude and longitude - in and of itself - is not particularly useful. The real value lies in the interface between the GPS signal from space and position mapping software stored in each receiver.

GPS update - your mapping software obsolete?

Magellan RoadMate 1210 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator Review

Magellan RoadMate 1210 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator Feature

• Personalize OneTouch search icons with your favorite places
• Features a portable 3.5-Inch color touch screen
• QuickSpell with Smart City search narrows your address and city entries
• Permits multi-destination routing
• Includes maps of the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico

Magellan RoadMate 1210 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator Overview

The newly redesigned Magellan RoadMate 1210 GPS device boasts a 3.5-Inch color touch screen and ultra-thin design, delivering powerful navigation in a compact package. This easy-to-use device gives you confidence while on the road with premium features including: the exclusive OneTouch menu, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, millions of points of interest, multi-destination routing, and pre-loaded maps of the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The OneTouch menu with personalized search icons lets you easily bookmark favorite destinations so you can access them anywhere you travel. Find your favorite café or restaurant in any city with a single touch. The RoadMate 1210 navigation device delivers your favorites at your fingertips.

Magellan RoadMate 1210 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator Specifications

The Magellan RoadMate 1210 device boasts the acclaimed OneTouch menu, a 3.5-inch color touch screen, and a pocket-size design. Preloaded maps and points of interest for the contiguous 48 United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico make the RoadMate 1210 ideal for around town and vacations. Easy-to-use features give you confidence on the road and deliver a rewarding navigation experience. Turn it on and go!

Turn it on and go! Click to enlarge.

OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. Click to enlarge.

Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, helping you save time and money. Click to enlarge.

QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy. Click to enlarge.

Preloaded maps give you information and directions as you travel the contiguous United States, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

The Magellan RoadMate 1210 includes many premier features, starting with Magellan's exclusive OneTouch favorites menu, QuickSpell with SmartCity search, and highway exit point of interest (POI) search, to name a few. Magellan's attention to detail delivers a superior user experience.

Intuitive and robust navigation
The RoadMate 1210 lets you bookmark your favorite destinations and searches with the OneTouch favorites menu so you can access them anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city.

QuickSpell with Smart City search help you quickly enter addresses and narrow your address and city searches, making destination entry easy.

Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, helping you save time and money.

Ready to roll
You're ready to travel with preloaded maps and points of interest for the United States and Puerto Rico that make the Magellan RoadMate 1210 ideal for both business trips and vacations.

With millions of points of interest at your command you can easily locate gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more.

When you're traveling down the Interstate and need to find gas, food, or lodging in a hurry, touch the highway exit POI icon to see which upcoming highway exits have the services you need.

Do you often find yourself tied up in traffic? The RoadMate 1210 is Traffic Link compatible, offering live onscreen traffic-incident reports. (The Traffic Link accessory is sold separately).

Turn it on and go!
The Magellan RoadMate 1210 is loaded with premier features you'll need to get you where you want to go.

Magellan RoadMate 1210 Features

• OneTouch favorites menu affords instant access to your personalized bookmarks of favorite places and searches anywhere you travel. With a single touch, find your favorite cafe or restaurant when you're traveling within any city.
• 3.5-inch color touch screen provides powerful navigation that's easy to view and use.
• QuickSpell with SmartCity search narrows your address and city searches, making destination entry easy.
• Multi-destination routing with route optimization lets you plan your trip with multiple stops in the order you want or optimize a trip for the most efficient route, saving you time and money.
• Preloaded maps give you information and directions as you travel the United States and Puerto Rico.
• Millions of points of interest (POIs) help you easily find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more.
• Highway exit POIs search shows you gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more near upcoming highway exits.
• Branded POIs display your favorite coffee shops, restaurants, and more by their respective logos.
• Traffic Link provides live, onscreen traffic notification updates. (This accessory is sold separately).
• Customizable route method lets you select the shortest distance, fastest time, most use of freeways, or least use of freeways to customize your route.
• Address book enables you to create and store contact information.
• Auto night view adjusts your screen's color and contrast for easy night viewing.
• Automatic re-route lets you quickly get back on track in case you missed a turn.
• Plan route on map by simply touching a destination on the map screen and then directly routing to it.
• Rechargeable battery gives you the freedom to drive wireless or plan your trip when your vehicle's engine is turned off.

What's in the Box
RoadMate 1210 GPS receiver, Pre-loaded maps of the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, Windshield mount, Adhesive disc for dash mounting, Vehicle power adapter, User handbook

Customer Reviews

*** Product Information and Prices Stored: Aug 24, 2011 04:04:08

How to know your Nuvi?

GPS map> The updates include an impressive amount of information. The normal GPS users quickly become accustomed to all this information at hand, and often find it annoying if some details missing. But the ride with a GPS for the first time is often a truly remarkable experience. The device is always "know" where you are, what lies before us, and how to go where you want to get - and it tells you.

It 'easy, sometimes, to forget where it allthat "knowledge" is. Information on roads, services and points of interest all have to be entered manually, by people from driving on roads, conducting investigations and recording of data. In this regard, the GPS maps are no different from paper maps. They represent a snapshot, and over time can become obsolete.

The downtown street grid of a city can be a very small change over the years. But the traffic patterns and drivingThe restrictions may change. The calculations can be one-way and detours are set. Freeway on ramps and exits can be opened or closed. In more developed areas, this new road network does not change and expand all the time.

But the streets are just the beginning. Apart from the actual maps, GPS navigators contain many layers of additional information. Business locations and service are stored in your GPS can change from day to day. New surveys always reveal new pointsof interest because something has changed, or because certain information was never collected.

If you think about it, you probably know many ways, your city or region has changed in recent years. Your GPS should know about these changes.

GPS Map Updates

Drivers who need to invest in expensive GPS navigators now better and more up-to-date maps and information, and manufacturerstry to answer. Unfortunately, the issuance of new GPS updates for specific brands and models is sometimes unpredictable. You can see the purchase of a new device with the preinstalled mapping software, only for the new software as soon after release. This is related to the cost of mapping updates is a frequent source of irritation for GPS users.

To understand why this is happening, it helps to know something about the process of collecting GPS data. Managers GPSas the contract with companies like Garmin mapping from Navteq to provide geographic information at his disposal. The survey and mapping the various companies continue to re-inspection areas and update their databases accordingly.

Data collection for the new maps is a process that requires time and expensive. And once the information is collected, you may need a little 'for GPS manufacturers to convert their specific software formats and produce GPS updates (infor download or DVD) for distribution.

But like everything else in the world of GPS, this expansion process of data collection and product development is to improve production. Increasingly, companies and manufacturers of GPS mapping priority areas for updating based on customer feedback.

Updates for GPS Garmin, Magellan, TomTom and other famous brands are now more frequent, and contain new information. Garmin GPS MapUpdates, for example, are now published quarterly. Each update includes better coverage of more than 60 major metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada, and six million points of interest to date.

Other companies are experimenting with new strategies to keep their software, GPS maps and databases as current as possible. TomTom has recently introduced the technology in their MapShare GO 720 GPS receiver. MapShare allows TomTom users to submitand share their own GPS updates immediately when changing seats or mapping errors are detected. TomTom owners can then choose whether they want to download the client generated changes, or wait for official updates, which are examined by the Company.

In the coming years, it seems certain that the number of GPS navigators on the road continues to expand and new approaches to the sharing of geographic information should be developed. How these processes take place,the cost of the GPS map updates will probably come down, although the quantity and quality of information is increasing.

GPS update - your mapping software obsolete?