Maestro 4250 Address for State Road, U.S. Highways, etc.

[Rickella]

Does anyone know if there is a workaround for entering a street number
to a State Road in the Maestro 4250? I get as far as for example S.R.
544 but I am not allowed an opportunity to add the street/building
number. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

[Who Me?]

Post by Rickella
Does anyone know if there is a workaround for entering a street number
to a State Road in the Maestro 4250? I get as far as for example S.R.
544 but I am not allowed an opportunity to add the street/building
number. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

I have a 4250 but haven't tried anything like that yet.
The result that you describe is, I think, the lame equivalent to "Street not
found".
It apparently knows that road by a different name, like TN 544, or doesn't
know it at all.
If you navigate to something close, the map display might tell you what name
it wants for that road.

[Jerry Boyle]

Post by Rickella
Does anyone know if there is a workaround for entering a street number
to a State Road in the Maestro 4250? I get as far as for example S.R.
544 but I am not allowed an opportunity to add the street/building
number. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

You've entered a street name for which the Maestro has no street numbers in
the specified city. But it does have map coordinates for a location on the
specified road. You can view this location by selecting the "View on Map"
button in the lower right corner of the Route Method screen. If you're lucky
you'll be able to see an alternate name for the state road for which you
*can* enter an address.

Does this help?

Jerry

[Rickella]

Post by Jerry Boyle

Post by Rickella
Does anyone know if there is a workaround for entering a street number
to a State Road in the Maestro 4250?  I get as far as for example S.R.
544 but I am not allowed an opportunity to add the street/building
number.  Any help would be very much appreciated.  Thank you.

You've entered a street name for which the Maestro has no street numbers in
the specified city. But it does have map coordinates for a location on the
specified road. You can view this location by selecting the "View on Map"
button in the lower right corner of the Route Method screen. If you're lucky
you'll be able to see an alternate name for the state road for which you
*can* enter an address.
Does this help?
Jerry

That does help. I had to used Intersection the first I made the trip
and it got me pretty close. Once I reached the destination, I did
"Where Am I?" and saved. I had a Tom Tom One which allowed me to
input the state road and street number and gave excellent results. I
miss that.

[Jerry Boyle]

Post by Jerry Boyle

Post by Rickella
Does anyone know if there is a workaround for entering a street number
to a State Road in the Maestro 4250? I get as far as for example S.R.
544 but I am not allowed an opportunity to add the street/building
number. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

You've entered a street name for which the Maestro has no street numbers in
the specified city. But it does have map coordinates for a location on the
specified road. You can view this location by selecting the "View on Map"
button in the lower right corner of the Route Method screen. If you're lucky
you'll be able to see an alternate name for the state road for which you
*can* enter an address.
Does this help?
Jerry
That does help. I had to used Intersection the first I made the trip
and it got me pretty close. Once I reached the destination, I did
"Where Am I?" and saved. I had a Tom Tom One which allowed me to
input the state road and street number and gave excellent results. I
miss that.

View on Map and Intersection each work in cases where the other doesn't, so
you may need both.

Both methods can be useless if the numbered road weaves through multiple
street names and many cross streets are missing from Maestro's Intersection
data.

Such is life :-(

Jerry

[Who Me?]

Post by Jerry Boyle

Post by Rickella
I had a Tom Tom One which allowed me to
input the state road and street number and gave excellent results. I
miss that.

View on Map and Intersection each work in cases where the other doesn't, so
you may need both.

I'm guessing that Magellan uses a different map company than TT......and
that they use a different convention for the naming of some
state/county/local roads. Once you figure out the convention that the
Magellan wants, I think it will be just as useful as was your TT.

You won't be able to master the new convention until you stop "missing" the
old one !! ;-)

So........when you use "view on map" or "intersection", pay attention to the
name the Magellan gives to the road in question. I think a pattern will be
apparent very quickly.

[Jerry Boyle]

Post by Who Me?

Post by Jerry Boyle

Post by Rickella
I had a Tom Tom One which allowed me to
input the state road and street number and gave excellent results. I
miss that.

[Clarification: above is OP's quote, not mine]

Post by Who Me?

Post by Jerry Boyle
View on Map and Intersection each work in cases where the other doesn't,
so you may need both.

I'm guessing that Magellan uses a different map company than TT......and
that they use a different convention for the naming of some
state/county/local roads. Once you figure out the convention that the
Magellan wants, I think it will be just as useful as was your TT.
You won't be able to master the new convention until you stop "missing"
the old one !! ;-)
So........when you use "view on map" or "intersection", pay attention to
the name the Magellan gives to the road in question. I think a pattern
will be apparent very quickly.

The optimal GPS design is to properly alias state/county/local roads with
their local names so that you can enter destination data *either* way, e.g.
12501 US 60 *or* 12501 Shelbyville Rd. If the TT allows the former but not
the latter then, as you say, it's a matter of naming convention. But if the
TT allows *both* ways (I can neither confirm nor deny this) then it is
functionally superior to the Maestro in this respect.

Jerry