Magellan 980611 MapSend Topo in the US

by Magellan

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Product Manual [415kb PDF]

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• ASIN: B00005QSRJ
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)

Product Description

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Maximize the potential of your Magellan GPS receiver. The MapSend Topo for the United States CD-ROM provides the capability to download highly detailed maps into your Meridian and MAP 330 family of products. These are detailed topographic maps including trails, streets, rivers, lakes, coastlines, and recreational points of interest for the entire United States. Customize the map sizes and regions to your needs.

Create waypoints and routes and then download them directly into your Meridian or MAP 330 for use in the field or save them to your PC. Download your tracks from your GPS handheld to view on MapSend. Use the search function to easily find elevations, trails, street addresses, cities, lakes and waterways, parks, airports, campgrounds, geysers, waterfalls, towers, caves, mines, summits, dams, bridges, and more.

Magellan's topographic maps are derived from the U.S. Government's Digital Elevation Model (DEM). This allows elevation readouts for every location on the map for both the PC and the Magellan receiver.

The MapSend Topo for the United States CD-ROM is compatible with Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 or later. You will also need PC cable for both the Meridian series and the MAP 330 series.

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Customer Reviews

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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars MapSend Topo Limitations, March 17, 2002

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Phil Cooper (Sammamish, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magellan 980611 MapSend Topo in the US (Electronics)

There are two limitations I've encountered in the very short time of use. Item #1 - The implamentation of the GPS to the software is very poor. Apperently MapSend, Streets and Topo, were written for the 330 GPS unit. Magellan has chosen to use the same software for the Meridian series. As a result, it's not a very clean solution. There are many work-arounds and bandaids just to get it to work. Most inconvenient! Item #2 - For the most part, hiking trails are omitted. Even the most popular trails here in the NW are not to be found in Topo. Question - Why else would one by a topo software package if not to see and locate trails?

I've only had this software for one week and to find these two problems so quickly, leads me to believe I've yet to find additional limitations.

Phil

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars MapSend Topo Review, March 18, 2002

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Phil Cooper (Sammamish, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magellan 980611 MapSend Topo in the US (Electronics)

I've had MapSend Topo for about a week now and I'm not impressed with it for the following reasons: 1. Doesn't contain trails. Why would anyone purchase a topo software package and not want trails? Big oversight by Magellan. 2. Doesn't recognize new zip codes or towns. I've had my zip code for almost 4 years...Topo says it's invalid. Can't find my friend's zip in VA either. One would think that Magellan would have up-grades on their web site that would up-date things like cities and zip codes. By the way, it's the same for MapSend Streets. 3. Too many bandaids and work-arounds to get a map into the GPS. Lots of rules here. No maps larger that 8Meg and only 4 of those or the GPS unit will lock-up. Haven't tried that yet but I'll take Magellan's word on it...

By the way, it does work with WindowsXP. No problems there for me.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality Maps and Overpriced Software, November 15, 2002

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Nathan C. Heston (gainesville,fl United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magellan 980611 MapSend Topo in the US (Electronics)

I am pretty computer savy and I had no real trouble installing and using the program. I did find the programs buttons and workings a bit arcane, but usable nonetheless. Where I ran into extreme dissatisfaction after spending [hard earned cash], was that the topo maps are way off. I use my gps extensively in the woods for navigating. I could watch my GPS and follow my position readings and see that that I had changed elevation by 500 feet. The maps from this topo cd would say that I only changed elevation by 10 or 20 feet. These maps are way off...the idea is good: Have your position displayed on a screen on top of a topo with countour lines etc. The problem is the maps are not usgs and in many cases are very inaccurate. GPS's are great. If you don't have one buy one. But don't waste your money on these maps. Wait and buy U.S. Geological Survey maps when they become available in GPS software form.