Magellan (Thales) (980640) MapSend Worldwide Basemap

by Magellan

Product Features

• Magellan MapSend Worldmap

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• ASIN: B000CDHXVO
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,565 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

MapSend WorldWide Basemap software enables you to create a basemap for any region of the world and upload it to your mapping Magellan GPS receiver. Adding WorldWide basemaps to your Magellan GPS receiver creates a seamless overlay on the built-in map with greater detail for easy navigation on all your local and international travels. Select a region on your PC and upload it to your GPS. New basemaps can be overwritten and stored on optional Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, or in the internal memory of your expandable Magellan GPS receiver. WorldWide Basemap is licensed for use with a single Magellan GPS. Each basemap region you define contains the essential basic map features such as cities, highways, waterways, railroads, national boundaries and shorelines. WorldWide Basemap also includes basic topography contours, which can help you stay oriented and locate major points of interest. In addition to the visual map presentation, the map features can be located using the search function on your GPS or PC. Easily toggle between the built-in basemap and your new WorldWide Basemap. Your Magellan GPS receiver will automatically transition to a detailed map when the zoom scale is 0.4 miles or less and the majority of the displayed is covered by the map for seamless GPS navigation. Features: WorldWide detail - Create a more detailed Basemap for any region of the world Seamless overlay - Detailed maps are added to your built-in map to easily switch between them or see detail when you zoom in Customizable regions - Select a region on your PC and download maps and points of interest to the available memory or SD card of your Magellan GPS Create routes & waypoints - Build your own routes with an unlimited number of waypoints on your PC to plan any trip and download them to your GPS Major points of interest - find airports, parks, historical monuments and more Compatible Units: Meridian Color Meridian Platinum Meridian Gold Meridian Mari

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Basemap lacking if used as solitary software, May 27, 2003

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"eighteenrabbit" (North Idaho) - See all my reviews

I have a Magellan Meridian Platinum receiver. I purchased the Worldwide Basemap so that I could use my GPS on an upcoming trip to South America. In the 'States, I use the GPS in my vehicle as I travel, and as often as posible in the backcountry on backpacking trips.
I uploaded a region of the Basemap that included the US west of the Mississippi and northern Mexico. It only took 8Mb of memory (saved to a 32Mb card). I think this is a pretty small file for such a large area. The Basemap includes bigger cities and many major roads. It also includes topography in 200' increments.
The nice part about the basemap is that it seems to be better "georeferenced" than the default map. On a recent drive, for instance, we found ourselves driving around on water - at least according to the built-in map. Changing to the basemap we found ourselves still safe on the lake shore! I think it will be nice to have topography shown on cross-country drives. But that brings me to the down side of the Basemap.
The basemap has only a fraction of the cities and roads on it. My home city, with three highways intersecting in it, is not shown. And only one of the highways is shown, starting outside of town (though there is no evidence that the highway continues or that there is a town at all on the basemap). The default map shows all the highways, tiny cities, and even major streets. I thought the basemap would have all that is on the default map and more. That assumption was not correct. It has a lot on it, and more than the default, but not the cities, roads, and other "important" things that are nice to know while driving.
Of course, a detail map can also be uploaded (from MapSend Streets or Topo). When zoomed into a detail area, that map takes over. I suspect this is why the basemap is sorely lacking. The bad part of this is that detail maps take up more memory. Even worse is that there are no detail maps for many areas - like Iquitos, Peru. I will visit Iquitos in July, but the city does not even show up on the Basemap (Iquitos and the Amazon are both shown on Garmin's default map, not Magellan's). I bought this software for the sole reason of uploading an equivalent of the default map for other areas of the world. There isn't much topography at the Amazon, so the loaded basemap looks exactly like a blank screen! I will still get my use out of the Basemap in the US, but it is worthless for the purpose I bought it for.
I believe that most readers will be better served with the built-in default map for travelling in the US. Then consider getting the Mapsend Topo and/or MapSend Streets software first. Only get the Basemap when you have the money to burn. Even if travelling abroad, you might check the availability of a detail map before dropping the cash for the Basemap.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Elementary at best, March 8, 2005

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JoeLana (APO) - See all my reviews

I currently live in Asia. I purchases my Magellan on a trip home to Chicago. Back home, the default map displays almost all mapped roads and landmarks, and even some I didn't know existed.

I purchased MapSend so I could have decent maps of the area I live and travel in.

Silly me to think that it would perform with accuracy as it did back home...

The mapsend features in Asia where I've used it (Japan, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Bangladesh) show at most 10 percent of the roads and landmarks, and all of those are displayed in horribly inaccurate positions (as much as 3 KM in some cases).

Were talking big landmarks including things like International Airports here.

A very poor product but one star given because it's better than nothing.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars PRODUCT KNOWN BAD BY MANUFACTURER!!!, June 2, 2005

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P. Hoglund "Wardragon" (Montana, USA) - See all my reviews
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I purchased a copy of Magellan Worldwide Basemap. I installed it in my computer but it would not run. When this also happened to a second computer I installed it on I contacted Magellan Technical Support. After asking me about the relative positions of stickers on the back of the CD jewel case I was told I had a defective disk and was offered a replacement in 4 to 6 weeks! Since I will have returned from my trip to Europe before the replacement arrives the product is totally useless to me. Don't buy this product until they have "good" disks available. The good ones have the stickers on the back of the jewel case in an "L" configuration, on the bad disks the stickers are parallel.