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Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 04:30 pm: | 
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Leslie,
Didn't want to keep posting questions on Jons for sale ad.
Have you considered the Magellan Platinum as opposed to the Garmin GSPMap76s? Seems to have the same features, and I've found it for as low as $279.00
Any thoughts? |
niall forbes (Forbesn)
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 06:04 pm: |
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Good idea Greg. Leslie, thanks for the info. The gps will be primarily used in the sailboat by my dad (I'm going to get a cheapo for off-roading like an old used GPS12 or a II+ or III+) so I'm not sure if the maps are a big deal. If you can get marine charts of the maritimes then it would be a great feature. Like a mini chartplotter. The other option is to get the basic one and then pick up an old notebook cheap to load the software on. |
p m
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 07:07 pm: |
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if you guys are planning on having a notebook as a permanent fixture for navigation, consider this little critter -
Motorola Oncore M12 board-level receiver,
or for electrically-challenged -
Evaluation Kit.
I have used it for work, and this receiver keeps me impressed with its incredibly fast cold start and reliable satellite tracking. THe receiver is $98.00 (last time I bought it), tiny 24dB gain antenna - $29.00.
peter |
Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 08:24 pm: |
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I'm not planning to use my laptop. Thats why I'm looking at hand helds with mapping capability, but thanks for the tips and link. |
niall forbes (Forbesn)
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 08:46 pm: |
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Thanks Peter, that's something we'll look into. |
Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 03:59 pm: |
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Puting it up top again for Leslie. |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 04:07 pm: |
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Never saw this one, this I saw the comment in the "For Sale" thread.... (boy, I feel sheepish)...
When I first started playing with GPS units in the Marine Corps 10 years ago, we were using those clunky Trimble ones... Ever since then, Trimble has still kept the "upper-end" of the GPS market. The survey units we use at work are Trimbles. Reason being, they'll record all of the rec'd data, so that you can go back and process the data against a base station for correction.
With all of the other units, Magellan, Garmin, Eagle, etc., what you get in the field is what you have, they don't record all of the signal data for processing... they process on the spot, then discard the data. They can do differential correction on the spot, and use WAAS, etc., but not post-processing.
I don't have anything against Magellan or Eagle or any of the other companies: my first impressions on the first Magellan that I ever used were okay, but I had a few grumbles... the first Garmin I used, didn't have those particular problems, so I began to favor Garmin. Ever since then, Garmin's been the one I gravitated towards.
'Til now, there've been units come and go, that some had nice features, but didn't have certain other features that I wanted, and vice-versa, brand regardless.
Brunton came out with one a bit back that didn't look bad, and I like my Brunton pocket transit, but it was even MORE expensive.
It wasn't until this Map76S came out that I finally found one that had the right combination of all the features I wanted.
Looking at the Platinum, it doesn't have as much memory, so you couldn't hold as much map-data. Also, I've not looked over the available maps that you could download into the unit... with Garmin, I'm familiar with the different ones: details of cities, or Topo, or nautical charts, etc.
They are comparable for most users, though. And, a lot of it just personal likes and dislikes.
Hope that helped... even if just a bit... 
-L |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 04:08 pm: |
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PS: Yeah, I just found it Greg, was typing when you put up for me (hee hee, I still feel sheepish! )
-L |
Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 04:19 pm: |
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Thanks for the additional information based on your research. I was thinking the Platinum had as much memory. Thought they both had 32 total, with 8-16 used for built in maps. However, they both have available memory chip ability, and they also appear to be compatible with the same map software. I'm only trying to determine if it's not the same unit from another company, but $100 cheaper. |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 04:24 pm: |
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Garmin uses Garmin map software only, and other things can't use it.... so, although Magellan may have comparable software, it's not the same... they definitely aren't the same unit.....
Hope that helps, too....
-L |
Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 04:27 pm: |
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oh, I was thinking they just got the maps out of generic software...... Didn't realize each had it's own software. So what does the PC map software do? Just take information from the GPS unit?
Guess I need to do more homework on these things. |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 10:09 am: |
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That's the way most of 'em work, that you have a program on your PC that can take a feed from the GPS.... the GPS units, for the most part, use a common format for transferring data. So, a Magellan or a Garmin GPS unit can feed location info to your PC, which then you can use whatever program, ie., Delorme, or whatever.
But, to load topo maps into a Garmin unit, you need Garmin software. etc. etc.
Go to http://joe.mehaffey.com and start reading, and you'll figure a lot of it out....
And, email me at that work email that I emailed you from, my home email address catches SO much junk mail that I sometimes miss real emails to me between the chain letter and sales offer junk mails... I've even got a couple of dozen filters in place, with more mail in the junk folder than in my inbox, and still have only 5% of my emails being something worth looking at....
-L |
gp (Garrett)
| | Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 10:31 am: |
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yeah Garmin's stuff is called MapSource. seems to be pretty decent quality stuff. least so far i am happy with it and the 'seams' on the quads are......well seamless.
lots of places sell there stuff on ebay. i have been getting my software from these guys. talk to larry if you have any questions. very knowledgable guy.
http://www.selectzone.com |
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