Replacing my Explorist 210

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

mac wrote:

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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David Chamberlain wrote:


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 :)

Jim Townsend wrote:

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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David Chamberlain wrote:


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 :-)