Thread: Magellan Crossover GPS

Originally Posted by procrastination inc

Mum and dad have one. They recently got a new laptop, Vista OS, and the magellan can't talk to it. Any one know where I can get a vista driver for it?

It depends what you mean. Thats the thing... it doesn't talk to your computer. You can't plug it in and mount it as a drive. You can't stream NMEA. The cable is only useful transferring music and photos to the device. The only way to access waypoints and track logs is by exporting them to a SD card and then reading the SD card. I'm sure there is a reason magellan set it up this way but I don't know what it is!

I should have called on this thread earlier. I only recently purchased the Crossover, on the 1st day I had to reset the unit 4 times during normal driving and the autoroute is pretty sad.

The off road tracks are the same as DiscoverAus which still run on my 10 year old unit. May persit for another week and most likely take it back.

My usual road nav unit was pruchased from ALDi for a 3rd of the price and is far superior. I recently used the ADLI product in the Victorian Alps and it had 90% of the 4WD tracks and the auto navigation also performed.

If I was going to buy a new navigator it would be the Hema navigator.

Ian

I'm reviewing one of those even as we speak!

Publish or perish!

Wait for the Sept edition of Overlander magazine. Can't pre-empt it I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Why is that? It's supposed to be a full featured GPS? Plus it has streets and tracks toppo included!

Sorry, missed this one. Reason being it has the maps, but try using them. It's very slow to switch modes, lacks features, connecting to a PC is difficult. The concept is great, the execution not so good. Plays MP3s, but only in the foreground. No UTM coords, no datums except WGS94. No external antenna. Can't work with Ozi. No written manual, a basic PDF supplied. You have to store mapsets on different SD cards regardless of space.

So, if you think of it as a robust, well built autorouter with a couple of extra features it's ok. But it's not the silver bullet for 4WD touring needs.

Originally Posted by rmp

Sorry, missed this one. Reason being it has the maps, but try using them. It's very slow to switch modes, lacks features, connecting to a PC is difficult. The concept is great, the execution not so good. Plays MP3s, but only in the foreground. No UTM coords, no datums except WGS94. No external antenna. Can't work with Ozi. No written manual, a basic PDF supplied. You have to store mapsets on different SD cards regardless of space.

So, if you think of it as a robust, well built autorouter with a couple of extra features it's ok. But it's not the silver bullet for 4WD touring needs.

I took it back and replaced it with a explorist XL with maps. We used it on our recent trip and it was great