One GPS unit for city walking, mountain hiking, and car navigation

I'm looking for one GPS unit that can be used for these three
things: city walking, mountain hiking, and car navigation. Some
good choices?

Do you think Tomtom One 3rd Edition would be good for all these
purposes?

No. I would go for the Magellan Crossover. While Magellan is not known for
the quality of its support and after sale service, they still make a decent
GPS and the Crossover series has been around for some time. It's not cheap,
but boy, do you ever get versatility, with the ability to add marine charts
to your arsenal, should you decide later on to do navigate the seas. HTH.

http://www.magellangps.com/products/product.asp?segID=391

HappyTrails!

Uncle Ben
schrieb/wrote/escribió
am/on/el 23.11.2007 13:30:
...
I really can recommend this
device. I am glad to use it
with my bike and car. There a
topographical maps that show
small paths. And it has a full
car navigation. It works fine
so I did not need to contact
the support until now (hope I
will never have to).

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:22:37 +0100, Udo Laschkies



I googled and found this review saying this unit doesn't have
good marine and topo maps. What's your take?


http://www0.epinions.com/content_405453180548

Magellan Crossover 2500T review...
Oct 12 '07 (Updated Oct 12 '07)



Pros
In-car nav works great, no real issues.

Cons
Marine and topo functions are useless for many.

The Bottom Line
A great idea in GPS that is too poorly executed and supported by
Magellan.


Full Review
I bought a Crossover after it won 'Gear of the Year' from Outside
Magazine. I was looking for a GPS for my car and boat, similar to
the Lowrance iWay 600c, but wanted something smaller and with a
built-in battery.

For in-car use, the Crossover is great. The new free firmware
upgrade give it the same GUI as the Maestro series. This is my
3rd GPS, and I found no real faults with the Crossover for car
use. The menus are simple and intuitive, route calculation was
fast and accurate, the maps looked nice. It also has a night
mode, which is great.

For Marine use, I essentially found the Crossover to be useless
for the simple fact of map availability. The Crossover comes with
no marine maps installed. You can buy them on SD card, but they
are hard to find - very few retailers carry them, and even Bass
Pro Shops, which normally has everything, didn't carry them.
Magellan offers 2 types of marine maps: Mapsend Lakes, which are
lake charts and sold in regions, and BlueNav, which are offshore,
or coastal ocean charts, also sold by region. Magellan claims you
can buy most of the charts off their site as a download, but
their site has not been working for several months now. If will
probably have to order charts of any type from an on-line
retailer.

Before you buy a Crossover, make sure the lakes you want are even
available. In my case (I live in San Diego) I wanted the MapSend
Lakes West region, so I'd have maps of lakes in southern
California, Arizona and Utah. But, very few lakes in California
are offered, and NONE in Arizona. What's stupid is the west
region does include 200 lakes in North and South Dakota! Since
when are those states part of the west? Some very big and popular
lakes are not available at all, including Lake Havasu, Lake
Pleasant, and Lake Powell. You can check which lakes are included
in which region on Magellan's site, so make sure you do before
you buy! As for ocean charts, since downloading them from
Magellan isn't working, you'll have to find them in a store. I
looked all over the web and couldn't find any. A couple of sites
told me it can take a year to get them ordered from Magellan on
SD card.

So, at least for me, the marine functions of the Crossover are
useless. The lakes I need aren't offered and even if they were,
it's basically impossible to purchase any type of marine chart
from Magellan. AND, only Magellan brand charts will work on the
Crossover.

As for the topo functions of the Crossover, the issue are the
same. The Crossover comes pre-installed with 'Lite' topo maps
that are quite poor, and useless for any serious trail work.
Magellan's site says better, highly-detailed topo maps are coming
for the Crossover for purchase, but they cannot give a date, and
have said they are coming for over a year now.

In summary, the in-car nav features are great, and very
comparable to the Maestro GPS units in features and
functionality. The marine function is useless. The topo maps are
useless. I would not buy a Crossover only for it's in-car
features, as it's fairly thick and heavy compared to other units.

Recommended:
No

Someone schrieb/wrote/escribió
am/on/el 25.11.2007 02:00:
(...)

(...)

About the marine maps I can't
say nothing, the car
navigation works quick and
mostly correct. The topo map I
use is the "map send 3 D
Germany", which even shows
small paths and seems to be
quite actual. So for biking
and hiking in my region it is
very useful.

If the maps they show on their
website really are available I
don't know.