Magellan Explorist 310

[+the funky kids]

I downloaded my caches onto my GPS today. Can someone please tell me how/where i can see the name of the Geocache? It seems like in whatever area i am in the map shows me those geocaches. Please help me understand this process or guide me to a step by step directions.

 

Thank You

[+Davequal]

Here is the PDF for your unit.

 

http://www.gpscentra...ExploristGC.pdf

[+Socal ZukiCachers]

Here is the PDF for your unit.

 

http://www.gpscentra...ExploristGC.pdf

 

If you do not figure it out by using the PDF come over to http://www.eXploristforum.com and there are several users there that will be more than willing to help you out or feel free to email me at Email me at Zukicacher@gmail.com

 

David

Magellan Insider

[+Davequal]

Here is the PDF for your unit.

 

http://www.gpscentra...ExploristGC.pdf

 

If you do not figure it out by using the PDF come over to http://www.eXploristforum.com and there are several users there that will be more than willing to help you out or feel free to email me at Email me at Zukicacher@gmail.com

 

David

Magellan Insider

 

Seeing that you "work for the enemy" , do you know if there is such a group for "the other side"? Ya know the one that starts with G and ends with N..

 

 

[+the funky kids]

Here is the PDF for your unit.

 

http://www.gpscentra...ExploristGC.pdf

 

If you do not figure it out by using the PDF come over to http://www.eXploristforum.com and there are several users there that will be more than willing to help you out or feel free to email me at Email me at Zukicacher@gmail.com

 

David

Magellan Insider

 

Seeing that you "work for the enemy" , do you know if there is such a group for "the other side"? Ya know the one that starts with G and ends with N..

[+Socal ZukiCachers]

Here is the PDF for your unit.

 

http://www.gpscentra...ExploristGC.pdf

 

If you do not figure it out by using the PDF come over to http://www.eXploristforum.com and there are several users there that will be more than willing to help you out or feel free to email me at Email me at Zukicacher@gmail.com

 

David

Magellan Insider

 

Seeing that you "work for the enemy" , do you know if there is such a group for "the other side"? Ya know the one that starts with G and ends with N..

 

Well, I don't see Garmin as the enemy and I don't work for Magellan, but I'm a Beta tester for them who likes to help out with tech support and helping other users and since I have a direct line to them I can normally get the answers very quickly if I don't know them. As far as a forum for Garmin users, I know of a couple of open GPS forums, but there not very active. The eXplorist Forum is a very active community where people can learn everything from the basics to making custom maps and learning the GPSrs from the inside out...

 

Sorry,

David

Magellan Insider

[+Socal ZukiCachers]

Here is the PDF for your unit.

 

http://www.gpscentra...ExploristGC.pdf

 

If you do not figure it out by using the PDF come over to http://www.eXploristforum.com and there are several users there that will be more than willing to help you out or feel free to email me at Email me at Zukicacher@gmail.com

 

David

Magellan Insider

 

Seeing that you "work for the enemy" , do you know if there is such a group for "the other side"? Ya know the one that starts with G and ends with N..

 

Well, I don't see Garmin as the enemy and I don't work for Magellan, but I'm a Beta tester for them who likes to help out with tech support and helping other users and since I have a direct line to them I can normally get the answers very quickly if I don't know them. As far as a forum for Garmin users, I know of a couple of open GPS forums, but there not very active. The eXplorist Forum is a very active community where people can learn everything from the basics to making custom maps and learning the GPSrs from the inside out...

 

Sorry,

David

Magellan Insider

 

If you do find an active Garmin forum please let me know, because I'm always looking for resources to be able to help cachers will all brands of devices.

 

Thanks,

David

[+Ange Heureux]

Hi all,

 

I have a little problem with my Magellan eXplorist 310. perhaps you can help me or at least confirm if this problem is only on my GPS or on all 310, or if i use it in the wrong way :

 

In case of mystery caches (?), if I enter the found/calculated location in a waypoint, the GPS indicate me a wrong location (between 30 and 60 meters away of the right location). But if I have a computer, enter the same location in the editable field in the page of the mystery cache, then download it into my eXplorist, the pointed location is this time correct (less than 2m).(like the traditional caches).

 

1) So could you confirm that you have or not the same behaviour ? (it's easy to do a test)

2) Because i haven't a computer with me when i'm searching a mystery (...), is it an another way to enter the coordinates in the GPS than the waypoints?

3) Or should/can I configure my GPS ???

 

Thanks for the help,

 

Ange

(from France)

[+Socal ZukiCachers]

Ange,

 

You are correct that at this time you cannot edit the coordinate fields for a Geocace, but I'm hoping to see this changed in a future update. As far as seeing a problem with the coordinates entered in to the unit, no I have not seen the problems your speaking of on my eX310. I would, however, ask you to verify that you have your GPS and Vantage Point set to the same Coordinate Format; because I have ran into cases where and individual was using VP in one format i.e., Degrees + Decimal Minutes and was trying to manually put them into there GPS as Decimal Degrees which was resulting in problems similiar to what your speaking of.

 

David

Magellan Insider

[+Ange Heureux]

Hi David,

I'm not using Vantage Point (because i'm a Mac user). But I doesn't necessary to test my problem :

- choose a cache on the website, and see its coordinates

- add this cache to your GPS

- on the GPS create a waypoint with the same coordinates

- and see on the map.

 

depending of the cache i can until 20m to 60 m difference of location !

(test done with http://coord.info/GC2V9YA and http://coord.info/GC3F65C)

 

Could you confirm me the type of coordinates i should use to the waypoint. Perhaps I've done a mistake here...

[+Socal ZukiCachers]

Hi David,

I'm not using Vantage Point (because i'm a Mac user). But I doesn't necessary to test my problem :

- choose a cache on the website, and see its coordinates

- add this cache to your GPS

- on the GPS create a waypoint with the same coordinates

- and see on the map.

 

depending of the cache i can until 20m to 60 m difference of location !

(test done with http://coord.info/GC2V9YA and http://coord.info/GC3F65C)

 

Could you confirm me the type of coordinates i should use to the waypoint. Perhaps I've done a mistake here...

 

Will do. I will test it this afternoon and let you know what I find out.

 

David

Magellan Insider

[+Socal ZukiCachers]

Hi David,

I'm not using Vantage Point (because i'm a Mac user). But I doesn't necessary to test my problem :

- choose a cache on the website, and see its coordinates

- add this cache to your GPS

- on the GPS create a waypoint with the same coordinates

- and see on the map.

 

depending of the cache i can until 20m to 60 m difference of location !

(test done with http://coord.info/GC2V9YA and http://coord.info/GC3F65C)

 

Could you confirm me the type of coordinates i should use to the waypoint. Perhaps I've done a mistake here...

 

Will do. I will test it this afternoon and let you know what I find out.

 

David

Magellan Insider

 

Ok - I gave it a test. I put a cache in the eX310 and then entered the same coordinates into the unit manually as a waypoint and the results between the waypoint and the Geocache is less that 2 meters. I'm sorry, but I've played around with it and I'm not sure why your readings are coming up as far off as they are...

 

David

[+Ange Heureux]

Ok - I gave it a test. I put a cache in the eX310 and then entered the same coordinates into the unit manually as a waypoint and the results between the waypoint and the Geocache is less that 2 meters. I'm sorry, but I've played around with it and I'm not sure why your readings are coming up as far off as they are...

 

David

 

thanks David for the test.

I'll redo the test I've done and will do some picture of the screen to show you the problem. But as said, i have perhaps done a mistake in the configuration...

 

Ange