Enter a street address

Using a Magellan explorist 500, is there any way to enter a street address
from a strange town and have the GPS calculate the route and show road by
road how to get there?

I have this unit loaned to me so that I can get some idea of how they work
but the manual (online) is sometimes less than useful and more often than
not quite confusing.

I have managed to place the cursor on a destination point and get road
directions to the spot from my current position but the other scenario would
be more useful I think.

Thanks for any help.

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Ron P

Quick questions rarely have quick answers

There are other tools rather than a GPS that would suit your needs. I think
any of the mapping sites on line would do that for you.

Do a Google search for "driving directions" and take your pick of what is
available. GPS is better suited for starting from a current position and
guiding you as you travel. It keeps track of where you are and where next
maneuvers are coming up.


Charlie

Well that is the whole purpose of the question. Googling a map and getting
directions does not take into consideration all of the construction that is
going on in the summer. So, for practical purposes, Google maps are more or
less useless. When you don't know the city that you are going to, and you
don't know the street, it becomes very difficult to navigate to the address
that you want to go to using Google or any other map for that matter as they
don't take the detours into consideration nor do they provide any means of
re-calculating your route when you find yourself in a detour situation.

My neighbour has a GPS that allows you to type in the address and then you
just follow the route. If you are detoured away from the route, all you do
is to push the recalculate button and a new route is provided.

This appears to be lacking in the GPS that I have been loaned.

Mine also has a reroute function. As I said in my response, I am not
familiar with the model you have available.
Reroute is indeed handy when it is needed.

Charlie