Originally Posted by
ten44ten32
1. I've been fumbling and poking through my GPS trying to figure it out. I think I have it figured out enough to use it. It's a Magellan eXplorist 210. It came with topo map software. I prompty uploaded Maine to my GPS and loved all the features. The extra information was helpful while looking for my first two. The next time I used the GPS the map information had been "dumped"?? from the GPS memory.
All that remained was the map information preloaded from the company. My POI's and Geocache points where still saved. Any Magellan users have any ideas? Did I push a button that I should not have pushed? Do I have a messed up unit? I don't want to get out in the woods and have the unit "dump" info.
2. I believe that I now have my wife hooked on geocashing. She has now set up an account on geocashing.com. Most of the time we will be hunting together. Is it ok for both of us to post a find if we found it together?
Thanks for your help! I'm sure that I will have more.
Hmmm . . . I have the Explorist210 as well . . . it's a nice unit. Inexpensive, but packed with all the features you need and it's very accurate. I bought it as a back-up GPS unit secondary to my color Magellan Meridian and now I use it much, much more than my color unit even.
In answer to your question . . . I'm not quite sure how you would have deleted the topo map unless you restarted the GPS unit perhaps. Make sure your map's features are adjusted to show more detail. Another thing you can check is go to menu, then active set-up. You should see the map you downloaded into the GPS under the "detail map" section (a box listed under the base map set-up) -- for example, my "detail map's" name is MaineNH. If this doesn't help, let me know.
Second question . . . the "rules" of geocaching are pretty loose and I don't think anyone would have a problem with you and your wife logging separate finds . . . some couples do this and some couples log together.
Incidentally, geocaching is spelled "geocaching", but pronounced "geocashing."
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