Magellan Meridian Gold Map

Rob, remember that there have been thousands travel around Australia without a GPS and are continuing to do so. Paper maps go with minimum of electicity and maintenance still.

Looking at the standard map there is very little detail and you are better to go to Discover Australia Streets and Tracks, or if you are happy to take a laptop for moving map display and seeing where you are and what is ahead. OziExplorer or the Streets and Tracks mentioned earlier both will give you moving map on the laptop. DA Streets and tracks can have maps loaded into a 256 Mb SD card if you don't want your laptop going all the time.

Search the postings for reference for all mentioned here, there is plenty in archive. ExplorOz have them for sale too click on Shop above for a good rate.Regards

JohnR - Not enough of the right travelling, some here..... some over there.......

hi rob
i have the magellan platnium, they are a powerful information giver, but to use it as a map from the hand held unit, you are watching it all the time, the screen is to small to look ahead at a decent scale, it does the job but they take time to look ahead, i have mapsend (all states on sd card) which helped boost the info on the screen, as for the standard data base they arent to detail and wouldnt get you far in the bush. They show major roads with names and some minor without names some tracks but a software package is recomended, preferabably with a laptop, then you cuold spend more money on the accessories, like the 12volt charger data cable, the port for the lap top, and a 12 volt charger for your lap top. Gets kinda expensive, but it works. I like to use it but the navigator still likes to look at the map upside down.
The question, yes you would require some sort of data upgrade,be it mapsend which is not visually pretty but does the job, or ozi explorer, or trackmaster.After all this you will still need maps.
Good luck
Neil

Thanks BernieM - you have made me really think on what we really need and what has been our past experiences travelling in the outback and Europe. Our need has usually been to have a map of towns with streets and important locations such as fuel, caravan parks etc.

My conclusion is that the Meridian Gold with a 256 Meg SD Card and DiscoverAus Streets & Tracks would meet all our needs.

Rob

Goran

For your information and to enable you to download an update I attach a response to your comment from Magellin

Dear Sir,

The comment which you have indicated above was true up until about 2 months ago, Magellan identified that the lagging problem was due to a firm ware glitch, and have rectified that, the latest version of firmware 4.51 resolves this problem, maybe the user should upgrade his unit to the new firmware.

I have finally decided to go with Garmin Emap - thanks for everyones advice and to ExplorOz for the Forum

Rob