The Magellan Roadmate 1700 GPS system offers the best of GPS navigation. Like a lot of the GPS systems out there on the market, the Magellan has complete and updated maps of the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. It also has a 7 inch touchscreen and a fully marked map. This map features up to six million points of interest, or places where you want to, or need to go in cases where you need it while travelling to your destination.
Like most GPS systems, it also offers easy map updating in cases where there are important updates of road constructions, detours, changes in traffic flow and such, and you are not usually informed about these matters. But unlike most other GPS systems, the Magellan Roadmate 1700 has options for you to use AAA road support. If you are a member of AAA, you have an automatic additional POI or points of interest that you can go to in you need to go there.
Other things that the Magellan has is the Highway lane assist, where the GPS system tells you what lane you have to be on a certain stretch of road in order to go to the proper exit ramp and the GPS system has the ability to recompute the best way to get back on the right road with its smart route and auto route features.
These features enable you to go to the correct sequence of turns that get you need to do in order to get you where you need to go. Being GPS enabled, the system will recomputed the best possible streets that you need to turn to, in order to get back to the right road. And at the same time, properly following all of the designated street rules of the place where you are currently driving in.
Other things that make following routes easier with the Magellan is the ability to speak the streets that you need to turn to. You never have to miss a turn again because you failed to see that the GPS was actually pointing to the next left turn while you were driving. The speak feature of Magellan makes it handy to just follow the directions that the GPS tells you.
Another thing that set the Magellan apart is that this GPS receiver has A/V inputs. Now you may say that you do not need to watch anything else while driving, but your passengers might. The A/V inputs make it possible to allow video and audio to be piped in to the Magellan Roadmate 1700 while it is powered on and this serves as the movie screen while your passengers cannot do anything else while waiting for the next stop to appear. With the Magellan Roadmate 1700 you may even tune in to a local air television channel that you might pickup to hear the latest traffic news or if there are hot breaking traffic reports about lane closures, weather disturbances or the like, that may hamper your drive toward your chosen destination.