Magellan MapSend CD for Meridian and MAP330 Series GPS Handhelds

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• ASIN: B00005QSRI
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 4, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,625 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Maximize the potential of your Magellan GPS receiver. The MapSend Streets & Destinations USA CD-ROM provides the capability to download highly detailed maps into your Meridian and MAP 330 family of products. These include detailed maps of streets, lakes, rivers, coastlines, parks, railways, and points of interest for the entire United States. Customize 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 street addresses, cities, lakes and waterways, parks, and airports.

The MapSend Streets & Destinations USA 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.

Product Description

An optional CD-ROM / Adds highly detailed street maps, topography and Points of Interest in a variety of categories

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Maps are outdated and inaccurate, June 4, 2002

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Chet (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magellan MapSend CD for Meridian and MAP330 Series GPS Handhelds (CD-ROM)

I bought this software to help with both trail and street navigation with my Meridian GPS. After driving around with the unit once, I thought there was a problem with my GPS. It consistently showed me driving 500-1000ft off the current road I was actually on. I tried to contact technical support to see about a repair, but they won't answer e-mails or phone calls. I finally found a news posting that said the maps were just inaccurate. So I put it to the test. I drove down a major highway (I-95 in New York/Connecticut) with full view of the sky (WAAS mode) and let the GPS keep my track. When I got back, the track on the GPS screen was 500ft off the highway (I was in the water at one point). I downloaded the track to MapSend, and it showed the same thing. I was never even close to the highway or any other street I was on. Then I took the waypoints from the track and plotted them in Microsoft Mappoint. All the points were right on the roads I travelled. I found out the reason. The MapSend maps are based on outdated and inaccurate TIGER line files (US Census data, available for free). Other software is based of other vendors (NavTech and others), that is much more accurate and the vendor has to pay royalties. Mappoint uses NavTech data, and so does some of the Garmin products. MapSend uses the TIGER data to keep the cost down, and passes on the value to you. In short, MapSend is completely worthless. The POIs are outdated by many years, you never know what street you're on, and tech support is unreachable.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst expensive software and irresponsible technical support, August 18, 2003

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big wang "big wang" (Fremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magellan MapSend CD for Meridian and MAP330 Series GPS Handhelds (CD-ROM)

I bought a Magellan Meridian Color recently, its basemap is fairly accurate but only have major freeways and roadways. So I check on their website and bought the MapSend Streets and Destinations for USA, along with SD memory.
After load up the SF BayArea region, I found streets and POI are off by a few hundred feet in most area, so it's totally useless and defeat the purpose to have detail map. I wrote an email to Magellan technical support, and here is the reply:
"Hi!

We are currently evaluating different mapping data sources for near future updates. Our current plan is to provide map database updates over the course of next year. We are also working on a program that will allow current owners to obtain the update at a reduced cost.

Thank You."

If the map inaccuracies are up to a few hundred feet is a known problem, they should provide any of the following:

1. refund the buyers who find it's useless
2. publish the data, so people know there is such a problem

3. provide a free upgrade to the accurate map

I felt like being cheated by a well known vendor with such poor quality software. Shame on the MapSend S&D USA software product!

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad buy - too inaccurate to be useful, September 4, 2003

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ronnesti (Colorado Springs) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magellan MapSend CD for Meridian and MAP330 Series GPS Handhelds (CD-ROM)

If you're looking for street level point-to-point navigation, look elsewhere. Not quite useless, but nearly so. Locations on uploaded regions are up to two-tenths of a mile off kilter. The best it will do is get you to the general area so you can then use the map image like a paper road map. It will not get you door-to-door. If you're in moutain back country, could be life-and-death serious!
The folks at Thales (pronounced "tallus")/Magellan say they are well aware of the inaccuracy and are trying to find a more reliable data supplier. I'd wait!