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e=mc² said:
All you do is press the find button, then highlight the "cities tab" then select "nearest". Voila!
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Good hint- I'll remember that. I would have tried to zoom out on the map until something recognizable came up; Nearest certainly would be the best way to do it-
You would think the road service should get with the times and be able to use the exact coordinates you could provide them- Some of these package delivery services probably could use it too, for those "Address not found" problems they seem to have, all too frequently.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Another major improvement over my Magellan 330 is being able to spell search the user waypoints; now I can jump straight to the waypoint instead of having to move the map pointer to the general area, and then selecting Nearest. I could now list a bunch of Home Depots, and quickly find the closest one, for example. The alphabetical listing on the 330 was useless because it only stepped through the list, one-at-a-time.. The cows would come home by the time it gets to the middle-
A tip to make things easier is that when you spell search for waypoints, once you enter enough to home in on the one you want, you can just hit "Quit", and it'll go to the waypoint without your having to step over to the "OK" button. Makes it much faster by not forcing you to hit that final button. It ONLY works with the waypoints, though- for other searches, if you hit "quit" there, it just cancels out everything you entered so far and returns to the starting point..
When I hold the Enter button on while turning it on, it comes up in diagnostic mode, and has a display for the battery voltage (mine showed 5.54V on NiMH's fresh out of the charger), and temperature in Celsius. If you try it, do it where you don't see any satellites or shield the antenna, because it may temporarily recalibrate it to the satellite signal, when it's intended for use with a signal generator at Garmin. It also allows you to check the all the buttons on the unit as you press them, and some screens for checking for bad pixels.
I've changed the second field displayed on the navigation screen to Turn, which shows the direction you need to turn (left/right, and degrees), which I find more useful than the default time to next intersection. The Distance to Next display is all I really need, along with the Turn.
That's the other great feature of this unit, that it calculates the ETA at final based on the full route, so you could give someone a good estimate of when you'll be arriving. My Magellan could only give the estimate to the next waypoint in the route, which is useful enough for driving the route, but the final ETA would be very helpful.
It really has a lot of nice features, which I'm still finding as I go. I like being able to move the stored waypoint using the graphical map; what I use that for is to fine tune the waypoint location that I just roughly generated previously. Once I get to the actual location, I just move it to coincide with the actual location cursor. With my 330, I'd have to read the coordinates and edit them manually, or just delete and restore the waypoint.
One thing I find more difficult on the V vs the 330 is entry of the text and numbers using the rocker switch; it has a bit of a squishy feel that makes it harder to quickly select the characters, and also I'm not yet used to the layout of the letters too. On the 330, it's more positive feeling, and the letters seem to be laid out better for fast entry.
I'm still looking to see if there's any easy way to transfer the waypoints I have on the 330 into the V, other than manual entry-
Kev1, hope you get your Euro-V; it's very nifty! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif