Magellan Meridian Platinum Waterproof Hiking

One of Magellan Portable GPS Receiver SporTrack Color is best for both outdoor and inside the car traveling. You see where you are going and where you've been in vivid, bright color. This peculiar product helps you navigate with better-quality tracking and precision, within three meters, which is what most navigational systems promise. However, the SporTrack Color says it will give you superior tracking even underneath perplexed environmental issues such as mountains or in big cities. This gps receiver has a high solution screen of 240 x 160 pixel display screen which enables you to find your location, heading and route speedily and without distraction. The cute little SporTrack Color likewise gives you a barometer which gives you an vantage over the weather and a novel 3-axis compass superior to none. If you are the outdoor type than the Magellan Portable GPS Receiver Meridian Color is for you. The tough and rugged Magellan Meridian Color help you get to where you want to go while hiking, biking, camping, hunting, fishing, on the trail or wherever you want to go. This portable gps gets you to your destination within three meters using the WAAS engineering science and a built-in 16 MB map with major waterways, highways and points of interest (POI) all around the Untied States. It also comes with the MapSend and DirectRoute CD-ROM for turn-by-turn directions and a elaborate street level map of the United States. A special program may be added for an further and added charge to the hunting and fishing fanciers Magellan Portable Meridian so that you may follow the coastline and waterways. Among the Magellan Portable GPS Receiver family is the eXplorist family featuring the TruFix Technology. These are accuracy when it counts and greatest or most complete or best possible reliability and performance products. Portable, fits in your pocket or purse, there is no compromise on the huge LCD screen for picture perfective looking at of where you want to go or where you've been. The voice prompt is a calming, tame voice and is rectify within three meters. A rugged yet sleek looking portable gps receiver everything you need is at the touch of a button. TruFix Technology takes vantage of 14 parallel channels, supported by the WAAS and EGNOS Satellites-based Augmentation System for fast signal acquisition and minimal signal loss. The Magellan 3250 Maestro Portable GPS Navigation, is totally loaded with a Bluetooth for hands-free talking, text to speech - you enter your text, such as a street address or directions or times and it is converted to speech - featuring a 3.5" LCD touchscreen and preloaded Navteq maps with six million points of interest (POI). This gps unit also includes the turn-by-turn directions and detour redirectional conversion. Magellan likewise carries a portable that has assorted built-in features in the Magellan Crossover 2500T Portable GPS Navigation System. This one is exceptionally made for the more active folks. The encasement is waterproof and shockproof. It features ordinary city and topographical contoured maps, perfective for hiking or aviation, of the United States. Detailed maps of respective regions as well as BluNav coastal maps for the marine fanciers are available at an further and added cost. With 16 MB of built-in map info and a Secure Digital Memory Card slot, the Magellan Meridian Gold Global Positioning System receiver gives you a great deal of memory to store and access emplacement information. This rugged handheld GPS unit coordinates selective information from up to 12 satellites to pinpoint your emplacement anyplace on the globe. The Meridian Gold's 16 MB base map gives you elaborated info on U.S. cities, interstates, and waterways. Slide in a selective information card to get even more detail, or use a memory card to store waypoints and routes. Map screen View larger. Speedometer screen View larger. The Meridian Gold GPS is a simple, versatile GPS receiver. View larger. The Meridian Gold has a potpourri of navigation screens that make it a breeze to use. The map screen will show you where you are, or, in the Cursor Mode, you may scroll through the map of your current area to see where you're headed. The compass screen makes it easy to quickly check your bearing, whether you're on foot or in your car. If you need coordinates, the Meridian delivers with easy-to-understand position screens that show all the applicable data for longitude and latitude. And with other handy displays like the road, data, speedometer, and satellite status screens, the Meridian Gold makes it easy to gather all the selective information you might need to get home, find your waypoint, or navigate all over the country. The Meridian Gold is PC-compatible and stores up to 500 waypoints and 20 reversible routes with up to 30 legs. It also comes with a quadrifilar helix antenna for optimal satellite signal reception and fast position fixes. WAAS and EGNOS capability adds to the skillfulness of this receiver, which may be operated in English, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or Swedish. With Meridian Gold's seven navigation screens and vertical-profile graphs that show elevations of the route traveled you be capable to see your precise position. The oversized, backlit grayscale display allows you to without apparent effort see emplacement data day or night, and it comes equipped with a backlit keypad for easy button navigation in any condition. Waterproof rubber armoring and an ergonomic, compact design add to the Meridian Gold's functionality. The Meridian Gold is compatible with Magellan's MapSend software, including MapSend Streets Europe and the not so long ago freed MapSend Topo for the United States. Vehicle, bike, and swivel mounts are sold separately. What's in the Box Meridian Gold GPS receiver, PC cable, 2 AA batteries, wrist strap, user's manual, and CD-ROM (user's manual with 9 languages).

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182 of 197 people found the following review helpful.
Magellan Meridian Gold - The Good, Bad & Ugly
By Joe Baughman
After much comparison of Magellan and Garmin GPS, I plunked my $$ down on Magellen.

Purchase decision - My impression from OTHER reviews and data for Magellan was outstanding hardware, weak software but taking into account all pluses, minuses and price points and my usage: hiking, biking, back-country skiing, driving, boating, I chose a Magellan Meridian Gold, 32meg memory, and Mapsend Topo Sofware. Keep in mind there's a lot to choose from and yet none seemed PERFECT.

I've now had it for 2 weeks of vacation time biking, hiking, driving and land surveying in S. Utah. I monkeyed with this unit everyday, getting completely intimate with it's usage.

The Good: Solid, lasting hardware. The Gold has a outstanding feel, is a good size and fits into any of my outdoor shirt pockets. It holds satellite signal exceedingly well in trees, 2nd story house, Utah canyons. Solid sentiment buttons and rubber armoring are all great. Seems to do very well on batteries using roughly a pair or less a day. (I already have a charger and extra batteries from my digital camera and headlamps).

The Bad: Mapsend topo software at 1:100,000 is not genuinely precise at nearest level. However, the amount of built in software and downloaded maps are sufficient for my usage and I may imagine the memory and processor speed necessitated for 1:24,000 topos. Also on the positive side Mapsend and Magellan built-in software has a ton of info! It's outstanding having altitude, moon/sun info, vertical trip projections, and much more.

The Ugly: Magellan's method of setting routes and backtracking is perfectly terrible for my usage. I am so annoyed with this, I would return it if I hadn't already applied it 2 weeks. Here's the deal -

If you go out for the day and retrace your route exacty, or just set it for the car in popular it works very well. But so does a few cents worth of flagging, popcorn, or the most inexpensive GPS available.

In reality, I normally go on a hike, bike, or ski in a heap of type of semi circle and at some point want to return to my nearest backtrack point and THEN commence backtracking. I want the unit to beep when I get near the next point and keep counting them down. In the canyonlands of Utah and backcountry skiing here in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this could genuinely be useful.

However, this ONLY works without apparent effort if you exacty retrace your trail.

So... in every day usage where you aren't going incisively back down your same trail (why have a GPS?) you have to build a route with the GPS and/or go through the user database and select the nearest backtrack points. And then if you don't keep manually going through the database and selecting the next point, it will just keep pointing back at the last one. This is ridiculously time consuming on a day hike and makes operating the GPS the whole excecise rather of enjoying the outdoors. THIS SEEMS LIKE IT COULD BE EASILY CHANGED BY MAGELLAN BY SOFWARE PROGRAMMING.

More ugly: Really ugly.

Okay, so you set waypoints along your way using the GPS. Great, it does this well with 2 clicks. But THEN what??? It's back to the problem above.

It takes SEVEN screen operations and even more arrowing buttons to get a single one of these into a route. This exclusively insenses me. I could walk around circles for a day and finally catch up to my wife and find the car in the time it takes to make a route! WHY CAN'T MAGELLAN MAKE IT SO I SELECT ALL THE POINTS FOR A ROUTE AT ONCE!!!???? How when it comes to storing waypoints in distinguished databases to get started with? Or using two buttons in a computer-like fashion to spotlight and select?

THEN: after I've got a route made HOW ABOUT if the GPS allows me to select manual or automatic retracing???? In other words, I want to go on a trip and set waypoints along the way. (Remember this is easy) Then, no matter where I am when I want to return to camp, I dump all my waypoints into memory in a few clicks, point the way to the nearest, and as I approach each new one, (automatic mode) the GPS beeps and rolls over to the next (lower number) waypoint.

If Magellan would make route setting and retracing easy, this would be a real must-have piece of gear for all my trips. At present, it's an electronic toy to play with while walking on flat ground or while my wife is driving the car. To give it the gain of the doubt is also perchance a good last resort safety measure so that if I get actually lost I know where the nearest town is.

The annoying share is it is so close to being great, but Magellan's software programmers apparently never leave the office!

One last word - I find the Gold a outstanding decision over the Platinum for using less batteries, having less to break, not necessitating re-calibrated everytime you change the batteries (daily) and knowing I haven't salaried even more for a heap of hardware that is for the most part a toy because of the software behind it. Plus, I wouldn't go someplace I could genuinely get lost without a basic topo map and compass!

Three Stars overall for aweinspiring toy that gives you data from satellites in outer space!

50 of 52 humans found the following review helpful.
No comparison
By prv8eye
Since the Meridian is the ONLY hand held GPS receiver with expandable SD Card memory, how may any other unit compare?
It has superior reception and is also the only unit with rubber "armor" coating and a frame protecting the observing screen.
The second day I owned my Meridian Gold I got out of my car, forgetting that the unit was on my lap. The Meridian hit the asphalt with a deafening whack but never suffered a scratch.
The thing seems to lock on to sat signals like it's hungry.
The base map many times shows roads and details I did not suppose to see.
My only complaint is that, like the other GPS makers, Magellan charges way too much for their map software.
After spending hundreds of dollars for a GPS receiver, it is rather disconcerting to be charged and further and added 50-100 dollars for the software.
Seems to me they would trade a lot more units if the software was more lowcost or even if they charged a little more for the receiver and included one software CD.(worked for Nintendo)

67 of 72 humans found the following review helpful.
A outstanding unit.
By Mark Pulver
I've been looking for a GPS unit for a while. Garmin and Magellan are plainly the two key players in the market, and honestly, at this level ($200+) issues like accuracy aren't the decision point.

I started gravely looking for a unit after going out Geocaching with a couple of buddies. In that single use, I started to realize what I actually wanted in a GPS unit. The top of the list was ease in your hand - to use any unit in the field you're keeping it in your hand. The unit ought to be comfortable, and the buttons ought to be easy to get to.

One thing that without delay came to light was that most of the Garmin units are _not_ comfortable to hold, and those that are, genuinely only "work" in your left hand. That didn't make much sense to me and fundamentally eradicated all of the Garmin units.

Off to Magellan!

The most frequent of the Magellan units is the Map 330, and it is a wondrous unit. But, the one thing that troubled me regarding it was the memory size. 8 meg is a lot, but I was worried that I may have to sacrifice coverage area for detail. That lead me to look for a 16meg unit, and when I found out that the Meridian Gold also had an MMC (SD/MMC) memory card slot in it for map downloads, that seemed merely perfect.

And it is. The unit is outstanding - I have no qualms regarding recommending this box, or _any_ of the Magellan units. They're well built, easy to use, have clear displays and... fit in either hand.

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