Magellan Maestro 4370 - Seeking EASIER Address Input
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15 years
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Good Morning, Afternoon, and Evening,
Be kind, my first post here...
I bought a 4370 a couple days ago and love it! Not any real complaints... except maybe one! I suspect this may be true for most (all?) GPS units...
I'm looking for a much more painless way to enter an item into my address book. Ideally, it would be nice if I could take a few contacts from an Outlook .PST file (maybe that I've pre-selected as business contacts, relatives I want to visit, etc.) and export that to the Magellan in some way / shape / fashion. Right now it APPEARS my only option is to get KML savvy. That's a rather unpleasant prospect right now. Besides I seldom know the (long/latt) coordinates in advance. Conversely, street addresses are very leechable off the net. 
Normally I like learning new IT challenges (html, php, asp, etc.)... Right now, time is against me. I'm have about 30 addresses I'd like to enter for a trip I'm taking next Weds. Even after that, the need will remain.
Magellan content manager is great for firmware updates, but past that, not too useful it seems (unless I'm missing something {besides a brain}!). Can it really be that the only friendly interface to this unit is the soft-keyboard on the 4370?! It's "ok" and great while mobile (errr, uhhh, I mean "safely parked in the car"! 
). Surely I'm not the first person to wonder this.
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Also, just quickly parsing the 4370 manual, I don't see any specs for what the max density SD card I can throw in the 4370 is. Any ideas? Right now, I have the biggest card Wal-Mart sells... a whopping 4GB (wooo hooo! LOL).
All hints, tips, "RTFM"'s (but be specific, please!) are welcome!
Cheers,
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I'm looking for a much more painless way to enter an item into my address book.
Can it really be that the only friendly interface to this unit is the soft-keyboard on the 4370?!
.. a whopping 4GB (wooo hooo! LOL).
Yes, the built-in "keyboard" is all there is.
There is (probably) a backup and restore function. The Address book is one of the things that gets backed up. Look at the files that the backup makes......assuming they are plain text and not some binary encoding, maybe you can edit and "restore" with new information.
I think you will find that 4G is more than enough.....for most "normal" people !!
You might have a look here: http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=77
.....but be careful. The forum is FULL of people who have killed their GPS by hacking.
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