magellan sport trak pro question

[+injun & squaw]

OK we are newbies to this geocache thing and not quite figured out this GPS. When I input a coordinate it wants to give me "as the bird flies" directions. So we spend a lot of time trying to find the proper road to just get in the general area. In the boonies with many oilfield roads this can be difficult. Does this GPS give directions by road or will it always be "as the bird flies"?

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

I don't think that unit has road navigating capabilities.

 

It's a 2002 model... discontinued and I had to search fairly hard at the Magellan website to find anything about it.

They offer one download, and that is more than likely a manual (I did not go into it).

 

Methinks you are gonna have to learn to fly like a crow.

[+injun & squaw]

I don't think that unit has road navigating capabilities.

 

It's a 2002 model... discontinued and I had to search fairly hard at the Magellan website to find anything about it.

They offer one download, and that is more than likely a manual (I did not go into it).

 

Methinks you are gonna have to learn to fly like a crow.

 

 

LOL thanks. It was only 8 bucks at a garage sale and we have had some fun and a few off road adventures trying to go "as the crow flies". Glad to be part of the geocache gang.

[+user13371]

Actually, with the right software the SporTrak Pro can do turn-by-turn directions. Unfortunately, given the age of the unit that software may very well be a garage sale item also - or if you did manage to find a reseller who still had it, you'd find the cost prohibitive.

Edited October 14, 2012 by user13371

[+gpsblake]

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/magellansportrakmap.php

 

Also information from the archived site for Magellan from 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/20030416184231/http://www.magellangps.com/en/products/sportrak.asp

 

I remember the Sportraks but for some reason they never sold that well compared to the Meridian series. I think the logic was just to spend a tiny bit more and get the Meridian. The Sportrak's were Magellan's answer to the Etrex Yellow/Legend/Vista series. I also believe the Sportrak's "floated" in water.

[+injun & squaw]

Thanx for all the info. I finally found the section in the book on GOTO routes. It definitely says will only do "as the crow flies" routes. So looks like I need to gas up the Jeep.

 

Found 12 caches out of 14 today so it's working good so far.

Edited October 15, 2012 by injunblood & squaw

[+Cacheoholic]

The Sportrak had no external memory slot and the Meridian did. That was a huge advantage for the Meridian series. If I remember correctly I think I only had enough memory in a Sportack Pro to fit about half of Pennsylvania in street detail maps.

[+BAMBOOZLE]

I've got a couple of those.....really accurate and I believe had quad ant as well.

I seem to remember maps.......I'll have to dig mine out.

[+MaxB on the River]

OK we are newbies to this geocache thing and not quite figured out this GPS. When I input a coordinate it wants to give me "as the bird flies" directions. So we spend a lot of time trying to find the proper road to just get in the general area. In the boonies with many oilfield roads this can be difficult. Does this GPS give directions by road or will it always be "as the bird flies"?

 

Magellan Sport Trak Pro did not have Street Mapping, so "as the bird flies" is all you get. You could load only up to 6 MB of local street maps for display purposes only. You needed to get the Magellan series and the higher end mapping progam for that one. Both GPS and mapping programs are no longer produced. Our 2nd Sport Trak just quit and Mr. MaxB isn't happy. He doesn't like change. We had purchased a Garmin NUVI, that allows us to upload cache coordinates as POI's and hand enter coords if necessary. We used this for turn by turn street directions, then used our Sport Trak for finding the cache.

[+user13371]

MaxB, you're mistaking the SporTrak with the SporTrak Pro. The Pro had more memory (32MB total, basemap took up 9 leaving 23 for your own maps). MapSend DirectRoute would indeed provide turn-by-turn routing on these.

[+theosus]

I still use my SporTrak Map. It wont do turn-by-turn, but meh, who needs it, I'm a geocacher not a soccer mom looking for a starbucks. Pretty bulletproof little unit. The battery compartment area has some cracks and missing bits, so it's on it's last leg. Hopefully I can find a good replacement. I like the black and white LCD screen. most modern ones have hard-to-read color screens. I can read mine in some pretty harsh light...and it has that Timex Blue Glow background, too...

[+injun & squaw]

Well we went out this weekend and got on a few dead end back roads and opted out of the oilfield roads this time but all in all I can't complain about its accuracy. It is usually accurate within a couple of feet(unless the cache isn't exactly on GZ. 10 out of 14 today so really can't complain for 8 bucks.

 

Is the Mapsend Direct Route cd still available or is it going to be one of those "good luck and you'll pay a fortune" kind of things?

[+Cacheoholic]

You might be able to find it used but I think Windows XP was the last operating system that it would work on. Then you’ll have to find a computer that will accept the old data cord plug (RS-232) or come up with a USB adapter.

[+BAMBOOZLE]

Well we went out this weekend and got on a few dead end back roads and opted out of the oilfield roads this time but all in all I can't complain about its accuracy. It is usually accurate within a couple of feet(unless the cache isn't exactly on GZ. 10 out of 14 today so really can't complain for 8 bucks.

 

Is the Mapsend Direct Route cd still available or is it going to be one of those "good luck and you'll pay a fortune" kind of things?

 

I never liked the Direct Route Software......there were issues that affected accuracy when you walked to a cache.

The Mapsend Streets and Destinations works fine......you can usually get it on Ebay for around $20......I've made maps of each U.S. state and use them on my Meridians as well.