The "nest" GPS

Does the wife/girlfreind know . I wonder if it thinks of you the same .
All the best
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Hi Luke . Im thinking of getting an SD card and maps for my meridian also . Can you tell what you have got for yours ? Its a bit hard to know what to get as there is so many combernations . Errol Why go overseas when you can ExplorOz
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I'm using a 64MB SD card with Mapsend Victoria on it.

Works extremely well, and doesn't suffer from the lag problem known to bug Discover Aus.

Get some maps and an SD card, and you won't know your GPS. It makes a great thing fantastic!

Be careful when shopping for SD cards though, many people have found that SANDISK SD card have not worked in their Meridian.

I bought a 128MB Sandisk SD card for mine, and it didn't work at all in the Meridian, despite functioning OK in all my PC's and Mac's.

I returned the 128MB Sandisk SD card, and have since had no troubles with different brands in various sizes.

The 64MB card I'm currently using is a generic Dick Smith brand SD card, and it works fine.

Cheers,

Luke.

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I have had no problems with 64MB and 256MB Sandisk SD cards in several different Meridans.

Yours is the first problem that I have heard of with Sandisk cards

I can assure you Burnie there is a problem.

I'm not saying it affects ALL Sandisk cards, but it does affect a large number of batches.

The problem is well documented at the Magellan Meridian Yahoo! Group by the users there, and a number of dealers.

Magellan have also admitted the problem, and have announced that it has something to do with date coding in certain batches of SD cards from Sandisk (something like that at least :-) )

Cheers,

Luke.

Burnie Hi!
I see you use a gps V im looking to buy one can you recommend this model?
Cheers.

I orignally bought the GPS V for my motorcycle because it was robust and the shape is excellent for this use (some people think it is not too pretty).
The GPS V has a very sharp screen and the size was not a problem on the bike as it was 12-15 inches from my eyes.
I am currently using in my Grand Vitara on a RAM mount with a suction base on the windscreen. It is about 24 inches away which is okay but a little far at night.
The GPS V has a screen that is the same size as the Magellan Meridans but noticably sharper.
The GPS V has a really variable backlight which can be set high if the sun is on the screen or very low for night use. Many units do not have this variability.

The GPS V does auto-routing but the Metroguide mapset does not. I selected Metroguide as it has much better rural coverage than Garmins auto-routing mapset (City Navigator Australia).

I am looking at a GPSmap 176 monochrome ($1040) with 64MB memory card ($220) and I already have Metroguide Australia maps ($239).
This unit has a bigger screen and re-_Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx maps faster.

A GPS V is $891 on its own.
C H Smith (a Melbourne marine chandler) have the GPS V with Metroguide maps and a data cable for $1100.

Forgot about memory;

the GPS V has 19 MB of internal memory for loading maps.
Metroguide Australia is 48MB for all of Australia. NSW is 16MB.
Most of the data is close to the major cities.

I have 90% of NSW (including Sydney), 50% of Victoria (eastern section) excluding Melbourne and 50% of Queensland (southern section) excluding Brisbane loaded into my 19 MB of memory.

You can load other maps from your PC at any time. It takes about 40 minutes to load 19 MB via the serial data cable.

Wow thanks for the info on the gps v i sill cant decide between garmin or the magellan i hope to go shopping soon so i will cheak then both out. It does make it hard reading all the forum on gps everyone is different.

so thanks again for the info...

cheers....