Mulot_Infernal Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I will like to buy a good map of North America or Canada to play caching. At the Magellan site they have very not cool maps. Give me your feedback please. Quote Link to comment
+D0T-C0M Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 you cannot put any other maps in your gps other than what magellan sell. Mapsend topo canada is very detailed and in my opinion it is must have for canadian coverage. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 (edited) Don't know if you're looking for topo or street maps, but there is a new Canadian Topo version in the pipeline. Hard to say what the quality is until it's available. My guess is that it's the same as the current program referenced by Dot-c0m, but friendlier in explorist communications. I have generally found that the map programs Garmin or Magellan make available are adequate for my GPSr, but I need better 3rd party stuff for computer use. Edited September 9, 2005 by embra Quote Link to comment
Mulot_Infernal Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Thank you for yours advices. I will buy, soon I hope, a MapSend topo Canada. I have spend a lot of money in that eXplorist 600 and is external memory. Dot-Com will understand if I said "Tout ou rien". When I bought something I want it very good. But I should take it relax and spend only the essential to play geocaching Quote Link to comment
+CondorTrax Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Mulot, Did just about what you implied in the "all or nothing". Got the eX600, carrying case, car mount, extra RAM, Topo3D, DirectRoute, and screen protector. I use the Topo3D when I need more topography. Direct Route is used to get me to the location using the Street-by-Street mode. Overall, it wasn't cheap but has worked out well for me. Quote Link to comment
+D0T-C0M Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 (edited) direct route lacks alot of side roads in canada. It works reasonably well in the bigger cities but here in New Brunswick it lacks many of the POIs, street names, secondary and off roads that Topo Canada has. I wouldn't buy v2 for canada at least, wait till Direct Route version3 is available(sept). As everyone knows if you buy v2 and v3 comes out the week after, you'll be forced to fork out more cash as magellan does not offer free updates to any of their map softtware like garmin does. Actually mapsend topo canada is also due to release version1.5 which will have integrated explorist usb support. I cannot understand why magellan wouldnt supply a patch to allow older versions to natively support the explorist instead of using the conversion manager software. Edited September 10, 2005 by D0T-C0M Quote Link to comment
Mulot_Infernal Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 CondorTrax you doesn't understand me. I said "all of nothing" but at the end of my Post I said "I should buy just the essential..." But it's fun to have a eXplorist 600 because it look very good and we can put more memory. I have order one, not yet receive. Quote Link to comment
Mulot_Infernal Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 I my last post I said "all of nothing". That is mist spell. I want to write "all or nothing". Sorry for that. Quote Link to comment
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