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quote:Originally posted by Usmaak: Is it common for the basemap to be off on these? I was driving down a road, and it showed me being about 200 feet to the east of the road that I was on. I did not drive down the road with the one that I just returned, so I have nothing to compare it to. So, I don't know if it is just this unit. The GPS unit said that it was currently accurate to seven feet. Scott Sure it happens on my e-Trex legend all the time. I keep telling my wife she is going to have to improve her driving. The car has to stay on the road, not in the ditch! I don't know why it happens, but Garmin is off the hook because the first screen that comes up when you turn it on says "you assume total risk and responsibility in using this device". So if you want to drive in the ditch, it's not their fault. Even scarier is driving over a bridge and find you are driving in the water.... Ar

quote:Originally posted by nincehelser:"Overshooting" is the common term used by most on these boards to describe Magellens. Many describe it as walking past the cache, then having to double back many feet. George I assume you are using the Magellan Meridian Platinum, which we were considering buying. There is also the Gold and one other in the Meridian family (can't remember the name) I assume they all have the same Quadrifilar antenna which is supposed to be superior to the patch antenna on the e-Trex Legend. Thinking back on our travels, we had the Legend lose the satellites once or twice dscending into the grand canyon. This was for relatively short periods of a few seconds to a minute or so. The problem of losing satellites is more pronounced under foliage. Magellan even advertises "Tracks position even in dense foiliage and urban canyons". That's what attracted us to it. You say the Magellan is slower in reporting position when driving. We certainly don't need that, as our Legend seems to be quite slow when we are in a city moving past many streets over a very short distance. We frequently use the Legend connected to our laptop with the Microsoft "Streets and Trips" program. It's great out on the highway, but seems slower in reporting position in the city. Driving downtown, it becomes almost useless as we are in the "urban canyons" Ar

We used our e-trex Legend to find our first cache today and it read to within 1.5 feet of the cache near the summit of a 1200 ft mountain in Quebec. (No kidding). On the other hand I an very disappointed that the Legend loses satellites at the slightest hint of foliage or canyons. It was great in the Arizona desert, but back home near Montreal, it is sometimes very poor. We're seriously thinking of getting a Magellan Meridian Platinum unit. Anyone have experience with that? Art