2009 Spring Map Update

Magellan is offering it, on a SD card, for $85.99 including ground
shipping.
http://www.magellangps.com/products/map.asp?tab=0&PRODID=2194

How often do most people do such an update? Can one get an update
cheaper from another source?

Ricky Jimenez wrote:


Depends on how critical it is for you to have the latest "available"
information (which is NOT ever really the latest information). For the
casual, non-business user, every 2 or 3 years is probably plenty........and
by then you may find that you "need" a whole new GPS ! ;-)

Magelllan sometimes has sales; watch the web site but they have exclusing
control over the updates. Discounts from 3rd parties are small, if any.

wrote:

Here is something interesting:
http://www.nowtorrents.com/torrents/magellan-2009-map-update.html

They seem to have the map update in the form of a downloadable file.
But what Magellan sells is an SD card that you attach to the bottom of
your GPS. Anybody know if the software versions on the nowtorrents
site are of any use? Maybe you can burn your own SD card or transfer
the maps to the GPS with the USB connection, if you know what you are
doing.

I copy'd my V2 update from my crossover to a Transcend. Then I updated her
crossover to the 2.36 like mine and put the copy in hers. It only shows the
lower 48 states in hers. I can put my original in hers and it will show all
the regions fine. She could care less she won't go to Canada or the other
places anyway. All the POI updated. And I know the 48 states updated because
the road in front of my house used to be called by the highway now it calls
it by the street.

The original SD card from Magellan has small copper like squares in side the
back of it. I only assume that this lets the GPS read the hard drive as well
as the SD card. Unless its because I bought Transcend to copy to instead of
Sandisk like the original, and if I'd gotten Sandisk it would have the same
small squares on the back letting it read too. But I'm thinking that maybe
Sandisk makes those for Magellan special and the ones we would buy wouldn't
work any different than my Transcend. Anyone have a Sandisk to look see?

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