Satmap Active 10?

Does anyone have one of these? What's it like? What do you think of
it? Do you get the same battery life as they claim? Is there any way
of putting your own mapping on it such as from openstreetmap?

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:44:29 +0100, Chris Eilbeck


Suggest you have a look here:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=133

Andy

I did a comparison between this and the Road Angel 7000.

All I'll say is that the Road Angel now sits in my car, as a sat nav & road
safety camera marker and goes out with me on the hill, with Memory Map maps
in it :)

Dave

wrote:

Nice piece of kit. Mine is playing up at the moment after being used in
heavy rain, but I hope that's just my unit and can be fixed.


It's good, overall. It could do with a bigger screen ... but that would
make updates slower and would mean that the backlight drained the
battery faster. The present format is probably just about the ideal
compromise for today's technology. The screen is usable.

I find it slightly difficult to hold (especially in gloves) as the back
of the unit is rounded, and doesn't afford a good grip. Otherwise the
layout and controls are quite well designed.


Battery life seems quite good -- I haven't actually run it completely
flat so it's hard to say. I do recommend the lithium battery that they
sell.


No, not as far as I'm aware. That does seem to be one of the
shortcomings of the unit. It would be really nice if there were a
Memory Map client that ran on the SatMap unit (I gather it's based on
Windows CE, so that shouldn't be impossibly hard as you can run a
Memory Map client on 'consumer' Windows Pocket PC devices (but they
aren't waterproof ... then again, my Active10 doesn't seem to be,
either)).

Cheers,
Daniel.

Chris Eilbeck wrote:

Cracking piece of kit plus if you go geocaching you can now do paperless
caching by downloading the .gpx /.loc file from the geocaching site.

You don't have to use a PC with it,routes can be planned on the unit
although obviously a PC with a large monitor makes it easier.

The mapping appears expensive but when you put it at the side of the
equivalent paper maps it seems very reasonable;£200ish for the whole of
the UK in 1:50000 whereas paper maps would be £1400 or so.There is also
site-centred mapping available which can work out cheaper in some cases.

There is a Route Planner/Route Share available on the Satmap site but
this is a rather steep £80 to access.Routes can be planned on Memory-Map
and downloaded to the Satmap via their Satsync software ( free ).

The Satmap is an ongoing project based in the UK and improves at every
software update,and they answer the phone and e-mails.

There is an excellent bike mount available,I find the unit especially
good for cycling.

Battery use via the Li-Pol battery ( extra) is very good and is easily
sufficient for a days walking/cycling.

If you are considering purchase have a look around as there are places
that sell it at a discount.

Sam Salt