[GeoStL] Re: Magellan SportTrack Map?
- From: "Susan Ring" <susanmring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:01:27 -0500
Mike,
I'm kind of a hybrid-I use both Garmin and Magellan, but I don't have a
SportTrak. I use one of the Meridians. There is quite a bit of difference
between the SportTrak and the Meridians. Just so you know, the meridians
are kind of like the Legends-there are a bunch of different models with
minor differences in features but they're all pretty much the same. I
believe the SportTrak is their most popular model so it's a good choice for
you to have for teaching. It has a smaller screen than a Meridian and as
you've found the zoom is not as good. i don't know the exact level of zoom
available on a Meridian, but just from using it I know that it is comparable
or maybe even better than the Legend. There are two other cool features
regarding maps. I have loaded topo maps on mine and they show up very well.
I found this really useful at Hawn, where I was unfamiliar with the terrain.
Also, they take memory cards so you can load an unlimited number of maps.
I have a friend with a SportTrak, but he's only cached with me once since he
bought it. I think he favored the compass/arrow page to find caches. It
seemed to be usually in pretty good agreement with what my legend was
showing at the time.
The only other hint I can think of about Magellan meridians, since some of
your class may show up with them, is about disabling some of the pages. In
my opinion, there are some screens/pages that are just useless and I hated
having to go through them to get to the screen I was after. I finallyfound
out you can disable any screen, I think it's from the set-up menu. I think
I cut down from 9 screens to just 4 or 5. I don't know how that works on a
SportTrak, but you might check to see if that's an option.
Hope this little bit helps,
Susan
PS to all the Garmin people: yes I love my little blue Legend
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Subject: [GeoStL] Magellan SportTrack Map?
Hi Everybody,
I'm getting ready to teach a Geocaching 101 class in JC and after spending
a little time with Clarence Warfield (who was using a Magellan) at the MIGC,
I realized that Magellan works totally different from Garmin. I went out and
bought a Magellan Sport Track Map and am struggling a bit with it. I really
don't want to start a Ford vs. Chevy debate, what I would like is for any
Magellan users to let me know how you cache with it.
Several things I found different between Garmin/Magellan is the map page.
My Garmin Legend zooms to 20 feet but the Magellan Sport Track Map only
zooms to 100 feet. (I did buy the mapping software and loaded it, but that
didn't help other than load streets/topo info.) This renders the map page
useless once you get close. I almost always use the map page to find the
cache with my Garmin, I rarely use the compass page.
There are two compass pages on the Magellan, one that has the compass, the
sun & moon, and a little mark if you have a waypoint enabled. The other
page has a bar across the top with compass headings, arrows to orient you to
an enabled waypoint and the ground drawn in perspective to the horizon. I
tried both pages to find a cache but wasn't sure what you experienced
Magellan users use.
If anyone could clue me in, I'd appreciate knowing what pages/methods you
use to find a cache.
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