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59 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
Nice GPS - Challenging NG Map Integration
By Benjamin Lockett
OK, so I try to stay clear from being an early adopter, but I've been waiting a long time for the next step in GPS technology, so I jumped at the chance of buying a Triton 1500.
28 of 28 persons found the following review helpful.
Magellan Triton 1500 Once Figured out it is GREAT
By Michael B. Taylor
I received my Magellan Triton 1500 from my wife for Christmas. We like hiking Mt Leconte in The Great Smokey Mountains National Park each summer and thought this would be a fun way to keep track of where we are on the trail and to find dissimilar landmarks along the way. We also live on a farm with a creek running alongside it, and wanted to be capable to watch the cursor move along as we walk it. Well, here it is in mid April, and I just now got it all working for me. I did not receive much in the box, just the receiver, numerous batteries, and a package of alternate stylus. I phoned the Magellan folks three times and never did receive the rest of what was supposed to be in the box. I purchased a cable off of e-bay, and downloaded the vantage point software over the internet from the Magellan website. I purchased the National Geographic TOPO maps on CD for Tennessee and Kentucky from the National Geographic website.
One major task to finish before this will work is to load up the Magellan Driver necessitated for your PC to recognize the Magellan. I googled a search for support doing this, and found selective information on how to get it done, and in the long run got that done.
The second major thing to do, is to download the most recent version updates of the TOPO software. Without it you will not have a box that allows you to send the TOPO map you want to the Magellan Triton GPS. The National Geographic internet site will give you a lot of data on how to get their TOPO maps exported to the Magellan Triton. You ought to update your TOPO software to version 4-4-2 . The upgrade you need is at
www.topo-triton.com .
I need to make it clear, the National Geographic Website will give you the best informaton out there to get this thing working with their TOPO maps. Spend a good deal of time reading their selective information underneath Magellan Triton Support.
After you get this done, you may open up the TOPO software (mine is for Kentucky and Tennessee) and zoom into the area you want to map. Zoom into the nearest range possible (level 5) and then you will click the red box on the top line. You may move around the red box to include the area you are mesmerized in, and then save it as a name you will remember.
The export from TOPO to Magellan Triton is easy now. You will load up the little map that you just saved, and then along the right side of your TOPO screen you will select the choice "Export to Triton" and give the map a name that will show up in the maps menu of your Triton. Then, click export now, and very speedily the map will go to the Triton.
From the Triton menu, select view then maps. You will see the name of the map you just sent to the Triton and there will in all likelihood be a box with a red slash in it on the left of the map name. Click that red slashed box with your stylus so the red slash goes away. This will then be the map that will be displayed on your Triton. (only one active map may subsist in the Triton, the red slashes are the maps that are inactive).
I have a 2GB SD card plugged in, and all my imported maps go to it without me doing anything.
The screens with the maps are clear, colorful, and a lot of fun to have as you hike around an area.
I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS GREAT TECHNOLOGY THAT IS AFFORDABLE AND NOW THAT I FINALLY GOT IT FIGURED OUT, EASY TO USE.
GET YOU ONE OF THESE MAGELLAN TRITONS AND YOU WILL ONLY REGRET THAT YOU DIDN'T GET ONE SOONER. No Kidding, get you one of these today!
12 of 12 persons found the following review helpful.
Works For Me
By John Philip Robertson
I won't reiterate what every one else wrote, except to say that this is a genuinely good GPS when you get things going your way. And that takes a bit of skulduggery, but stay with it and you will be rewarded. I use mine all the time and I'm not easy to please. I attribute the bad reviews to lack of interest to carry out due diligence.
This unit is finelooking sensitive... I live in a building that's like a tomb, but even inside I still get a few weak satellites - sufficient to get a position. Outside I get a sky full of strong ones. Maybe it's not lightning fast from cold start, but who cares if it's within a minute or two? Not me. I just turn it on and drop it in my pocket, tie my shoes and tighten my belt, and it's ready. The 1500 will receive a twenty dollar external antenna, but I don't see the requisite unless you purchased your GPS so you won't get lost in your basement.
You have to update the unit online. If you just got your introductory computer yesterday, it's gonna be a chore. Otherwise, no. After downloading Vantage Point, it may not recognize the unit. Driver time. You need to go to to to My Computer, Properties, Device Manager, Hardware, locate it in Other Devices and update driver, Windows will find it for you...look for Neptune... at least that was my procedure, and you recognise how that goes... just figure it out. I'm no computer genius, and I normally can.
When Vantage Point recognizes the unit, it will offer to update the firmware... do it. Now you are cooking with gas.
You may have problems, you may not... Google and noodle until you figure it out, I did, other reviewers here did, and YOU CAN TOO.
So perchance you could get a Garmin and spend a lot of cash on maps, and there would be no bumps in the road. But I highly doubt that, as I have owned Garmin products. Presently, I don't have a handheld Garmin, but I have one of the most recent Nuvis, the 1200, and I had to suffer a good deal of BS with it too... so I guess you either just do it yourself, or hire a guide.
It's very accurate, the 1500, as is the 400. Both look very durable. The 1500 screen is a great deal big. The unit is in truth a bit thinner than the littler 400.
Vantage Point and Triton manuals may be downloaded for free at the Magellan website.
I don't use the touchscreen much except for scrolling the map, cuz I got used to the buttons with the 400 which doesn't have one. But it has very good control, not helter-skelter like numerous of those Nuvi touchscreens.
Listen to Kirk... forget in regards to the NG and other costly maps. I got NG Topos free with my 400, which I still have... downloaded a few, but I in all likelihood won't use them for long, since by the end of 2010 USGS will in all likelihood be finished updating their new Topos. Many of them are done... check them out... awesome.
You have to convert them, initial from PDF to JPG and then to Triton RMP, with free software, which you'll either consider fun or a occupation depending on your personality.
Or you may remunerate your seven bucks and get a large total of great free maps ready to roll from Maps 4 Me, if he has your state or country done yet. Most of them will display in "3D" in Vantage Point... nice.
In a word, this unit has a bad rep because it's glitchy until you update it. After that it's nifty. It has an LED flashlight, a voice recorder, an mp3 player, SD card slot, earphone jack, eight dissimilar screens, lots of features, huge touch-screen LCD that works. I like it.
One more thing... check around... you may be astonished what you may pick up one of these babies or another Triton model for.
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