Magellan SporTrak Map GPS

Magellan SporTrak Map GPS Review

The SporTrak Map is one of Magellan's newer range of handheld GPS Receivers.   The SporTrak range are small, rugged, built to last and are for the serious map navigators in mind.    The SporTrak Map comes standard with 8mb ram which includes a base map.  The North America base map includes US Cities, Interstate highways, political boundaries, major waterways and airports.    The European version contains the same information except the UK edition base map has UK Towns/Cities and major roads and motorways.     Like with Garmin, Magellan also offer an extra installable map CD called MapSend.  This allows you to upload and store these maps to the Meridian with greater map detail than provided in the base maps.  Magellan have chosen not to fit the SporTrak Map with any additional storage solutions, which is a shame, and makes the Meridian range more usable for mapping.

The SporTrak Map looks and feels rugged, and is considerably smaller than the Meridian range of GPS Recievers.  Magellan say the SporTrak Map is waterproof, and complies with IEC-529 IPX7 specifications.  The sides of the SporTrak Map are rubberised and easy to grip, it has a backlit keypad, albeit smaller than the Meridian GPS and a backlit display which caters for large fonts.

The Technology Like many other handheld GPS receivers, the SporTrak Map can track up to 12 satellites at any one time out of the current constellation, and fully supports WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) in the US and EGNOS in Europe.  With current GPS accuracy, the SporTrak Map will be accurate within 3 meters or better depending on line of sight to the satellites and the amount of strong satellite signals the receiver has.  The SporTrak Map comes with 9 customisable screens which show satellite constellation, maps, compass, Bearing/Heading screen, GPS Co-ordinate screen, Track screen, Track details screen, speedometer

The Bearing/Heading screens and Track Screens give information like Bearing, speed, direction and ETA options.  The Meridian comes standard with support for up to 20 routes, 500 waypoints and up to 2000 track points which should be enough for the average walker and supports 12 built-in co-ordinate systems and 76 datums.  Screenshots from the Magellan GPS If you're looking to use the SporTrak Map for walks and hikes, you will certainly like the Track back feature which is more accurate than Garmin's equivalent system allowing you to accurately track back to each waypoint, which makes it easy if you get lost and need to re-trace your steps. Like many other GPS Receivers, the Meridian also has compass support with Northfinder technology showing you which direction is north no matter where you stand on the earth, it also contains sun rise and sun set times and moon phase for any date/location in the world. More info here : http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/magellansportrakmap.php We are looking for $ 65.00 or Half cash /half trade   or make and offer MAKE OFFER EMAIL US AT letsdealorstuff@gmail.com