2 responses to “Tuesday (050412) Link Fest”

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   Tom Lawless

   April 19, 2005 at 1:32 pm

   The eXplorist is not the best Magellan product. Best being a subjective term. The eXplorist series is a very pretty, easy to use entry level GPS with a big price. If you were to look at Magellan products that give you the maximum flexibility between city directions and wilderness orienteering you would want something like the Magellan SporTrak color or Meridian color. My big issue with the eXplorist is that it does not support the many other map datums such as
   Lat/Lon, UTM, OSGB, MGRS, Swiss, Irish, Finnish, German, Swedish, French, USNG, User Grid
   that when you truly NEED a GPS you will have to have. Example Lat/Lon is aviation oriented, giving someone these coordinates over a cellphone a helicopter can come rescue you. Also, UTM is the military version and all Search and Rescue teams use these coordinates. If you ever imagine yourself out of the city and in the wilderness I would make sure that my GPS has these datums and that I take the 10 minutes reading the manual to understand how to enable them.
   Cheers,
   Tom

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   Tom Lawless

   April 19, 2005 at 1:32 pm

   The eXplorist is not the best Magellan product. Best being a subjective term. The eXplorist series is a very pretty, easy to use entry level GPS with a big price. If you were to look at Magellan products that give you the maximum flexibility between city directions and wilderness orienteering you would want something like the Magellan SporTrak color or Meridian color. My big issue with the eXplorist is that it does not support the many other map datums such as
   Lat/Lon, UTM, OSGB, MGRS, Swiss, Irish, Finnish, German, Swedish, French, USNG, User Grid
   that when you truly NEED a GPS you will have to have. Example Lat/Lon is aviation oriented, giving someone these coordinates over a cellphone a helicopter can come rescue you. Also, UTM is the military version and all Search and Rescue teams use these coordinates. If you ever imagine yourself out of the city and in the wilderness I would make sure that my GPS has these datums and that I take the 10 minutes reading the manual to understand how to enable them.
   Cheers,
   Tom

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