equium Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Well, our neighbor turned us on to geocaching; but we only have a Magellan roadmate 700. I cannot put in the coordinates to get to the places. If i purchased a smaller, handheld unit, could i use the roadmate to get me close and the smaller unit to get me to the final destination? thanks Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 My guess would be no, unless its an urban cache near one of the POIs in the roadmate and you know what POI it is close to I do not think it will work, this is one of my gripes about Magellan, if Magellan had a road mate that I could enter coordinates into I would buy one. Quote Link to comment
+IVxIV Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 If you buy a handheld GPSr you can use it for the entire trip. Now,, if the roadmate "helps" you steer nearer to the cache then that's great too. Welcome to the obsession! Quote Link to comment
+Lt. Sniper Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Does a Roadmate provide serial out? If it does then you could use it as a NMEA source and hook it up with a cheap 2nd hand palm pilot and off you go! Quote Link to comment
+Dan_Edwards Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Never having used the Roadmate series... Can you upload new POI's to it? Basicly using them as waypoints? If it has NEMA then even if you can't enter new waypoints by hand as coords you might be able to upload them. Quote Link to comment
+Lt. Sniper Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 No, I meant use the Palm Pilot as the guideance screen, the Roadmate is simply acting as a 'GPS mouse' by outputting NMEA data. There are a few Palm programs out there that will give you GPSr like functionality. It doesnt matter anyway, the Roadmate is USB, not Serial. Quote Link to comment
+Dan_Edwards Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 No, I meant use the Palm Pilot as the guideance screen, the Roadmate is simply acting as a 'GPS mouse' by outputting NMEA data. There are a few Palm programs out there that will give you GPSr like functionality. It doesnt matter anyway, the Roadmate is USB, not Serial. Sorry should have said that I knew what you ment, but it did give me the idea that if it has communication via serial or USB you could upload waypoints to it, even if did not support creation of new ones based on lat/long manually. Still overall it would be quite a pain and it would be a lot better to just get a cheap mapping handheld. On the plus side, they have no need for the handheld to have routing capabilities so I would lean to a cheap Meridian Gold and Memory Card with Topo maps for the states around you. Topo maps would be the one thing the roadmate would not have. Be a nice compliment. Quote Link to comment
equium Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 Thanks for all the responses. I regret that the roadmate does not allow me to enter coordinates. Oh well, I think i just might get a magellan meridain gold out of this. Although the roadmate is something i wanted for a long time, it remains in my wife's vehicle for her guidance. thanks again. Quote Link to comment
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