{"id":3241,"date":"2012-09-23T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.azurewebsites.net\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2014-12-19T01:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T01:56:43","slug":"magellan-gps-software-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=3241","title":{"rendered":"Magellan GPS Software Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just took a long road trip, from San Francisco&nbsp;to Los Angeles, and back again. I love my Magellan RoadMate 1440 GPS. However, there were at least 2 occasions when the maps and directions were incorrect. I am guessing that is due to&nbsp;all the changes&nbsp;with roads and freeways and all those highway funds flowing from Washington DC!<\/p>\n<p>What to do? What if the CD that came with the product is lost? What if there was no CD? Use the USB connector that came with&nbsp;the GPS to connect to your Windows Vista or later system&nbsp;&#8211; ignore any of the plug and play type prompts so you can do it right by going through the software.<\/p>\n<p>Download the Magellan software, it is called Content Manager. Try this page:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magellangps.com\/Content-Manager-Software-for-Windows\">http:\/\/www.magellangps.com\/Content-Manager-Software-for-Windows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You install the software, register (yes, another registration), plug in your Magellan and voila: you are interconnected between PC (or laptop, or Mac) and GPS.<br \/>The software is very simple, but it works well. There is a big link to &#8220;Check for Updates&#8221;. That is exactly what is needed. It turns out that there are many software and road map updates! I had software version 1.12 on my GPS, and the latest update is version 2.22! I also had a 1.5 GIGABYTE road map upgrade available! Note this is an upgrade, not an update. So I am proceeding slowly on this one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have only installed the software so far. I will try to check back later about the mammoth maps upgrade!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there is no charge for these updates. Happy GPS -ing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just took a long road trip, from San Francisco&nbsp;to Los Angeles, and back again. I love my Magellan RoadMate 1440 GPS. However, there were at least 2 occasions when the maps and directions were incorrect. I am guessing that is due to&nbsp;all the changes&nbsp;with roads and freeways and all those highway funds flowing from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=3241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magellan GPS Software Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}