# Magellan 760 doesn't know where I live

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magellan-760-doesnt-know-where-i-live/358686>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magellan-760-doesnt-know-where-i-live/358686 "2006-05-30T01:30:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magellan-760-doesnt-know-where-i-live/358686/1 "2006-05-30T01:30:16Z")

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My new GPS navigation system, the Magellan Roadmate 760, and for that matter Google earth, zillow, and just about everything else doens’t know where I live. It misses by a few hundred yards. Since I know where I live, it is simply a minor annoyance, I could easily turn the thing off once I am near home. What I wish to do is teach it my specific coordinates, call that “Home” and enter it into my address book. Does anyone know how I can do that? The manual it comes with is very skimpy and I could not figure out how do do this from it.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magellan-760-doesnt-know-where-i-live/358686/2 "2006-05-30T03:03:14Z")

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The following does not work?

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> Adding A Single POI  
> Click on the Add New POI button. + A dialog box will appear. Enter the Name, the Latitude, the Longitude, the Altitude  
> (optional), and Description (optional). To find the latitude, longitude, and altitude of a POI, press the Locate button on the  
> Magellan RoadMate while you are at the location. See “Displaying Information About Your Present Location” on page 27.  
> Next, select an icon for the POI by clicking on the drop-down menu.  
> Finally, create a category for your POI. For example, “Friends’ Houses”, or “Coffee Shops”. Click on OK.  
> The POI you created is now in the Import, Create, and Modify window. You can continue adding POIs to the new category by  
> repeating the previous instructions. Each POI file can contain up to 10 categories with 1,000 POIs for a total of 10,000  
> total POIs.

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magellan-760-doesnt-know-where-i-live/358686/3 "2006-05-30T15:39:03Z")

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I just got the 700, which is the same as the 760 minus firmware 5.0 and some newer maps. Is your home/address on a mapped street? Sometimes it tends to place the destination at the nearest crossstreet if it doesnt have a subdivision or shopping center mapped out.

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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magellan-760-doesnt-know-where-i-live/358686/4 "2006-05-30T16:48:22Z")

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No, actually my house is 10 years old, and off a private driveway. It says we are home when we are about 300 yards from the drive off the main road that turns up into our house.

I was hoping there was a way of saying home with just a couple of button presses. I will have to try the way described and see how it works.