magellan cross over

[Wilko76]

hi all

work are going to buy me a gps navigator unit. the good thing is that i can choose what i want up to a certain $$ value or pay the difference.
as i am an avid camper and 4x4 fan i thought i may look at the cross over unit. best of both worlds kind of stuff

Could i have some feedback in both street and off road use? i have never used a gps for off road mapping before so i don't know how the cross overs compare with dedicated units.
any feed back appreciated.
can you recommend another unit that does both?

[gqpete]

used a garmin for a few years, loved it. always took me the best ways , easy to use , and the main diff is when you plot a street but unsure which suburb it will bring up a list of suburbs to choose from, easy. i bought the cross over cause of a gift voucher and hate it, almost flies out the window most days as is frustrating the way it takes you places, way out the way then all the way around when you could easily drive straight there. i rang up and demanded my money back but had no luck. it has gps waypoints but you cant change datum. want my garmin back.

[[gubeaut]]

fair to say they do sometimes take you in wierd ways sometimes but i've had a navman,garmen streetpilot and now a crossover and they all take you in stupid ways when you might know of a back street shortcut.personally i find it really good .i did find the problem of not being able to change the datum a prob at the start until i realized that you just have to change the imput method.so offroad i find it awsome as you can program so many more trips and waypoints into it compared to the other combo unit available and as far as when i got mine there weren't any other combo units that have topo maps just bread crumb tracks

[grazza]

For the money the Crossover is a bit rich, especially if you want to get other maps. The only good thing is the water resistance which would be useful on a boat or bike.

If you want a more reasonable price try a Mio C520 or LogicGear XL488.

In addition to the larger 4.3" screen these can be made to also run OziExplorer (requires a bit of hacking) which will enable you to use your own scanned-in maps or the Hema, etc, maps.

The LogicGear 488 can be pruchased for $349 at OfficeWorks or the Mio 520 on eBay.

The LogicGear has another good feature - it has video-in to attach a reversing camera, DVD player, etc...

[taps]

The crossovers are on special at the momet for $1099

[Wilko76]

hi grazza. how can they be hacked. am i allowed to ask this......

[zagan]

hi all

work are going to buy me a gps navigator unit. the good thing is that i can choose what i want up to a certain $$ value or pay the difference.
as i am an avid camper and 4x4 fan i thought i may look at the cross over unit. best of both worlds kind of stuff

Could i have some feedback in both street and off road use? i have never used a gps for off road mapping before so i don't know how the cross overs compare with dedicated units.
any feed back appreciated.
can you recommend another unit that does both?

Check outthe GPS websites for the best info.

I don't own one but from what I've read they can be good but they can't be linked up to a laptop for use with oziexplorer, so if you wanted that sortof feature I'd pass.

Is this just for streets? or for off-road?

If for off-road I'd say get the off-road GPS units, more so than the street units as they can be more handy, can be hooked up to laptops then you 'd only need the street software on the pc.

For streets I've used the old Navman software, it's ok, the new sodftware looks like the tomtom software, might lack traffic etc options.

also tomtom, it's good for the traffic and wheather options.

and I've used the copilot software, it has the traffic + wheather options but also has the live tracking and messaging so that someone at home via the net can track you on a map on a PC and you can pass messages between each other

you can send other people messages as well but I think you need to pay for this unsure.

I not too sure about the mios as they seem too sluggish in the demos I've run on them, the software looks great but the unit running the software seems to be crap.

[grazza]

hi grazza. how can they be hacked. am i allowed to ask this......

In the case of the LogicGear, you need to copy the files in the "zipped" version of OziExplorer to a SD memory card, then change the settings to tell the LogicGear to run Ozi when the "GPS" icon is selected.

For the C520, try googling - there is a lot of info in these.

PM me if you want more specific.