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StormyKnight posted:

So Doug....

What is the difference between the "new" magellan crossover & how it works & one of these Garmins with T4A?

Oh & by the way....the web site was quite informative contary to your own comments! :)

Cheers
Richard

Member - Doug T (Qld) posted:

Richard
Price for one thing is little higher than the Garmin Nuvi 660$835.00 and The crossover at $1,044.95 has some features that Garmin has not and Vice versa
crossover has Multi destination routing – Program up to 20 destinations but really does one really need to program 20 destinations , I guess if your Sales Rep it might be handy, It seems to me that the Crossover idea is no different to Garmin, to get to the T4A you have to ...well cross over to it , Probably there is not a lot of difference , maybe the Magellan comes with the outback tracks where the garmin it is an extra, either way the price diffence compensates that., Check these features for your self
Garmin Nuvi 660
Magellan Crossover


Doug

Member - Doug T (Qld) posted:

Richard
I just checked . the other mapping for outback tracks is extra for the XOver .
Magellan Crossover GPS Outback Maps
Explore the outback with DiscoverAus Outback Tourer, outback mapping with Hema Maps for your Magellan CrossoverGPS.

DiscoverAus Outback Tourer Hema Maps on SD card includes mapping for:
The Canning Stock Route
The Birdsville
Strezelecki
The Oodnadatta
Cape York
Flinders Ranges
Kimberly
Pilbara
Qld and NSW outback
The Red Centre
The Top End, and so much more.
DiscoverAus Outback Tourer with Hema Maps includes a searchable street database and is packed with thousands of points of interest including fuel stops, sight seeing locations, historical landmarks, caves, graves and so much more.

All this is in T4A ., and Both units do this
Digital Music Player – Play your favourite music through the integrated speakers or on you own headphones (MP3 & WMA file formats)
Picture Viewer – View all your travel shots while you are still away
SD Card Compatible – Insert compatible topo and desert maps, marine charts, music and pictures.
But I can't see where any mention about Bluetooth for the phone in Magellan.
I still reackon Garmin is the best .

Geoff M (QLD) posted:

Hey Richard, not sure that I would agree when you say " not all of Australia is covered by electronic maps". What do you mean by that?

If you're referring to cities and/or towns, then I might agree with that, but if you're referring to outback tracks, then I think the NATMAP series do a pretty fair job.

I'm running a laptop with TrackRanger software and NATMAP mosaic along with Hema's Outback Tracks and find them to be very reliable .... even when doing a little of one's own track making.

Geoff

PS: We also use a Garmin CoPilot 510C for city navigation.

Member - Olcoolone (S.A) posted:

Most of the natmap series are 1 to 250,000 that doesn't give you every little track or creek.

We use maps ranging from 1 to 25,000 upto 1 to 250,000.

Alot of maps are out dated now... most South Australian maps are over 20 years old and the rest of outback Australia is not much better.

The maps that are most updated are paper maps for areas of interest like mining etc., unfortanitly 4wding dosen't relate to an interest for the Govt.

Alot of people think they can have one year old maps for there GPS for anywhere in Australia and electronic ones are the most updated.....some South Australian maps are dating back to the 1940's and 50's.

Regards Richard

Member - Olcoolone (S.A) posted:

Goeff, what I should of maybe said was "not all of Australia is covered by accurate electronic maps.

Regards Richard