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Replacing my Explorist 210
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| My magellan Explorist 210 died. It dropped on the cement and parts came out
of it. Now when it locks to the sat, (if it locks), it takes about 45
minutes to get the signal......
I am considering the Magellan 2500T Cross-over. Any thougths ? I'll use
it for outdoors (trail walks and Geochaching)
mac
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| David Chamberlain 2007-05-06, 12:33 pm |
| mac wrote:
> My magellan Explorist 210 died. It dropped on the cement and parts came
> out of it. Now when it locks to the sat, (if it locks), it takes about
> 45 minutes to get the signal......
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> I am considering the Magellan 2500T Cross-over. Any thougths ? I'll
> use it for outdoors (trail walks and Geochaching)
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> mac
I bought one, before I even knew what geocaching was. It is a nice GPS.
It works pretty well for getting me to where I need to park in the car.
However, entering waypoints is pretty much a manual process, the display
is only good down to 100 feet and it has a very annoying habit of
announcing that you are close to your destination and then going back to
a general map screen without directions to your waypoint.
It would be a good product for the car, and it you wanted to do some
hiking, mountain biking, hunting and such and needed a guide back to
camp or to the car or to your favorite fishing location. But it is far
to lacking in close in accuracy for geocaching, in my opinion.
I've just purchased a Magellan Explorist 600. I should have it next
week. It should work similar to the 210, but it has downloadable 3d topo
and it also (I believe), has road navigation software available that
should be not quite as good as the typical road navigation GPSr's (no
voice prompts, etc), but might do the job.
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| Jim Townsend 2007-05-06, 10:33 pm |
| David Chamberlain wrote:
> I've just purchased a Magellan Explorist 600. I should have it next
> week. It should work similar to the 210, but it has downloadable 3d topo
The 210 and the 600 both use the same Magellan Mapsend Topo 3D maps. The
600 is bigger, has more memory and has a few more features than the 210,
but they both display the exact same maps.
From what I understand, the Crossover comes with only a minimal topgraphic
display loaded and you can install the much higher detail Mapsend Topo 3D maps
on the Crossover which will give it the exact same topo resolution as the
eXplorist line.
At least that's what I've read into the literature I've seen so far.
I'd like to know if this were true with the Crossover.. I'm interested in
it too :)
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| David Chamberlain 2007-05-06, 10:33 pm |
| Jim Townsend wrote:
> David Chamberlain wrote:
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> The 210 and the 600 both use the same Magellan Mapsend Topo 3D maps. The
> 600 is bigger, has more memory and has a few more features than the 210,
> but they both display the exact same maps.
>
> From what I understand, the Crossover comes with only a minimal topgraphic
> display loaded and you can install the much higher detail Mapsend Topo 3D maps
> on the Crossover which will give it the exact same topo resolution as the
> eXplorist line.
>
> At least that's what I've read into the literature I've seen so far.
>
> I'd like to know if this were true with the Crossover.. I'm interested in
> it too :)
They've promised higher resolution topo maps for the crossover, on SD
cards, but I haven't seen anything from them so far. I don't believe
they will be the actual Mapsend Topo 3d maps. I also doubt that higher
resolution topo maps will change the fact that you can only zoom to 100
feet and the shutting off navigation when you get "close" to the
destination. I could be wrong about this however.
The crossover runs WinCE. I get the feeling from the weaknesses in the
Outdoor navigation program that Magellan is pretty new at outdoor nav on
that platform.
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| Jim Townsend 2007-05-06, 10:33 pm |
| David Chamberlain wrote:
> Jim Townsend wrote:
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> They've promised higher resolution topo maps for the crossover, on SD
> cards, but I haven't seen anything from them so far.
OK.. I looked at the Magellan gps site again and found a listing
for all the maps that can be added. You're right.. It only takes
maps on SD card and the only topo maps are for Mexico and Norway.
Until the Crossover can do everything an eXplorist can do, I guess
I'll keep looking :-)
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| Ron Hunter 2007-05-07, 7:33 am |
| David Chamberlain wrote:
> mac wrote:
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> I bought one, before I even knew what geocaching was. It is a nice GPS.
> It works pretty well for getting me to where I need to park in the car.
>
> However, entering waypoints is pretty much a manual process, the display
> is only good down to 100 feet and it has a very annoying habit of
> announcing that you are close to your destination and then going back to
> a general map screen without directions to your waypoint.
>
> It would be a good product for the car, and it you wanted to do some
> hiking, mountain biking, hunting and such and needed a guide back to
> camp or to the car or to your favorite fishing location. But it is far
> to lacking in close in accuracy for geocaching, in my opinion.
>
> I've just purchased a Magellan Explorist 600. I should have it next
> week. It should work similar to the 210, but it has downloadable 3d topo
> and it also (I believe), has road navigation software available that
> should be not quite as good as the typical road navigation GPSr's (no
> voice prompts, etc), but might do the job.
>
The eXplorist is also pretty good for the geocaching use, although I
wish I had opted to wait and get the 500, which has a color display.
BTW, when they mention 'downloadable', then mean from a CD you BUY. I
have the Mapsend DirectRoute v2 software, and it is amazing, but lacks
some features I would consider essential, such as an audible warning
when you go off course. It also gets somewhat confused when you go off
track, and recompute the route. Detail is pretty good, and the routes
are generally more workable than MS Streets and Trips, although the
'shortest' is the only route provided. Routing is slow, and sometimes
impractical, and one needs to let it do the routing before starting the
trip or it will be confused.
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| Pieter 2007-05-07, 7:33 am |
| As a long time GPS user and Explorist 600 owner, let me jump in with my 2
cents too. I have found some of the 600's "extra" features to be almost
useless. The thermometer reads way too high because the sensor is near the
display backlight, my electronic compass seems to need frequent
recalibration, the barometer/altimeter really doesn't do much for me.
Frankly, I shoulda bought a lesser unit, and I'd suggest any purchaser
really assess their needs before spending the extra bucks for a 600. I even
had to purchase and carry extra rechangable batteries on long camping
because the AAA battery adapter promised by Magellan didn't happen for a
long time.
On the "plus" side, it's quick to get a position fix from a cold start, and
it is good under canopy. The MapSend Topo 3d! maps are good enough for my
purposes and I can use "AddMagMap" (NOT a Magellan product!) to add trails I
have surveyed to the detail map. Sie is good, functionality is good, extra
features not worth it.
So really think about how you are going to use it
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> David Chamberlain wrote:
> The eXplorist is also pretty good for the geocaching use, although I wish
> I had opted to wait and get the 500, which has a color display. BTW, when
> they mention 'downloadable', then mean from a CD you BUY. I have the
> Mapsend DirectRoute v2 software, and it is amazing, but lacks some
> features I would consider essential, such as an audible warning when you
> go off course. It also gets somewhat confused when you go off track, and
> recompute the route. Detail is pretty good, and the routes are generally
> more workable than MS Streets and Trips, although the 'shortest' is the
> only route provided. Routing is slow, and sometimes impractical, and one
> needs to let it do the routing before starting the trip or it will be
> confused.
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| TheClyde 2007-05-08, 7:33 am |
| > On the "plus" side, it's quick to get a position fix from a cold start, and
> it is good under canopy. The MapSend Topo 3d! maps are good enough for my
> purposes and I can use "AddMagMap" (NOT a Magellan product!) to add trails I
> have surveyed to the detail map. Sie is good, functionality is good, extra
> features not worth it.
AddMagMap - now that seems to be something that I could use. Will
check it out tonight when I get home. Oh, it makes me so so excited.
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