On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 8:41:36 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:47:15 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 12:06:08 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 11 Jul 2018 08:47:17 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 10:47:29 AM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In rec.autos.tech, on Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:18:22 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article , NONONOmisc07
says...

I don't need navigation, only occasionally to know where I am.

If the GPS map on new radios isn't a lot better than what I have, I'd
rather save a couple hundred dollars and get a radio withou it.



Get the radio without it.

That would save money, and I'm more likely to find a radio with real
buttons, which are easier to use when driving.

I don't know about the prices, but some of the new cars with navigation
have a USB slot where you download the maps on a computer and then
transfer them with a USB drive to the car.

Thank you for answering my question!

As many said, just get a Garman or such with the lifetime updates for
free.

I don't want another device.


No cell phone? Google Maps works very well for me.

That's one reason why I don't want another device. I already have a
phone, but it would be nice if it displayed on the dashboard.



Get a dash holder for the phone.


I have one of those. It's not the same thing.



And the question in the subject line was of interest regardless.






Answers to questions like "how does the map get into the radio?" are not
obvious from displays at Best Buy or ads on Amazon, and often not
mentioned even in reviews.

Idk why the answer would be at best buy, did they build the car?

I was talking about after-market car radios.

After all these posts that's the first time you've said that.




I know how the map gets in
my own car's radio.


It comes from thd DVD that came with the car.


I would think new cars would have it already loaded and it seemed it was getting updated maps you were talking about.





I would expect it would be in the owners manual for the car. Or failing that a simple google search would find it.

I was also talking about a variety of recent car radios, all of them,
and a google search did not find anything. But Ralph was a big help.

So there are no user manuals for any of the aftermarket gps radios online, nor any help available from any of the manufacturers? I would think for a specific car there would be a few companies that make one that fits and they would have documentation. But I guess you're the only one who wants to ever update it and the a answer must be you can't, because if it can be it would be very odd there is nothing available about it.