Magellan USA 3-D Mapsend Topo Software

5 comments:

1. Michael Cole, 9. December 2009, 12:16
   

   I realise this product is meant for the USA, but for heavens sakes, what about the great white north? Surely some Amercians who buy this thing plan to hike/hunt/explore nature North of the 49′th? (For that matter, don’t people buy GPS receivers because they plan to get around?) Well the details of Canada, i. e. major 16 lane superhighways, as well as arterial roads and obviously side streets are at best awful! You can buy the $100 (US) MapSend for North America but the reviews I have read of that product make me wonder why I bought this thing. Better yet, the best details Magellan will give you of Canada is just “Major cities”. If you are Canadain, or plan to ever visit Canada – or anywhere else in the World for that matter, buy someone else’s GPS receiver. This one is useless as soon as you leave the lower 48 states.

   There also appear to be no facilites for updating the road maps, so I guess when a new road is built or when a major construction project shuts down a highway for a year. . . well get a paper map from the AAA or CAA.

   Finnally I found the bouy in the middle of downtown Rochester a nice touch, the next time I sale across I-490 I’ll make sure to sail clear of the. . . whatever it is the bouy is warning!
   Rating: 1 / 5

    
2. Christopher D. Peterson, 9. December 2009, 13:06
   

   Still learning how to use the software. It is loaded with options. I gave it 3 stars because I returned the software. Magellan had the software for 10 dollars if you bought the Explorist 500.
   Rating: 3 / 5

    
3. joelgv, 9. December 2009, 13:43
   

   The maps are good enough for navigation of streets and outdoor adventures. It allows downloading tracks and waypoints from the GPS, editing them and saving to files or the GPS. It is annoying to have to put the last CD in your drive to use the program.
   Rating: 4 / 5

    
4. Marvin J. Bicknell, 9. December 2009, 14:10
   

   I bought four Triton 200 Magellan GPS units for school and have yet been able to use them. Now you would think if I bought Magellan software maps to load onto them they would be compatible. But, NO, they are not. And is that in the literature anywhere? NO. I will never deal with Magellan again. What a waste of time and money it has been.
   Rating: 1 / 5

    
5. E. P. Rios, 9. December 2009, 15:29
   

   I tried to load the product, but kept receiving a message that it would not load. I checked their website looking for a patch and it said that they shipped out defective disks in 12/05 and to call the company.
   I called the company and was told that since it is an old unit(SporTrak Pro) that I need to contact Legacy Products. Legacy only supports the handheld unit, NOT the disk. They couldn’t understand that the GPS is fine, it was the disk that wouldn’t load to the computer.
   I called Megellan back and customer service couldn’t help, because I called the wrong department. I was told that I needed to call back and speak to a different department. When I followed their instructions, I heard a message to go to the website that started this problem.
   After 6 different people, in 30 minutes I found out that I need to speak to somebody in their Customer Resolution department, they’ll send you a disk to repair the problem.
   Rating: 2 / 5

    

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