Magellan 5045-mu User Guide

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Understanding the keypad while entering an address is an important part of using your Magellan RoadMate 

receiver. The keypad is the most common method for entering data into the Magellan RoadMate receiver.
Keypad Overview

    

Address 

Book

Access the Address Book where you can save addresses and 

destinations to have available when needed.

Intersection

Used to create a route to the intersection of two streets.

City City

When selected, provides a way to select a city and route to its 

geographical center.

Settings

Displays the Settings menu. This menu can be used to access 

functions used to customize the Magellan RoadMate receiver 

to your personal needs.

Current 

Location

(Found on page 2).  Displays information about your position 

including the street name, names of streets forward and 

behind you as well as the Lat/Long information for your 

position.

Data Field

Top of the display where the characters entered are shown.  

Characters you enter are displayed in black, characters that 

are filled in by the Magellan RoadMate receiver are in green.  

If the receiver has been able to estimate the desired city or 

street, tap on the data field to accept the entry.

Previous 

destination 

list

(Enter City only)  When entering a city, the previous 

destinations list displays a list of cities previously entered.  Tap 

on a city from the displayed list to accept that city.

Zip Code

(Enter City only)  Displays a numeric keypad to quickly enter a 

city when the zip code is known.

Numeric 

Keypad

Displays a numeric keypad that can be used to enter streets or 

cities that have numbers in their name.  (This is not to be used 

for entering an address number.)