Magellan Crossover GPS
Often, GPS units tailored for the outback aren't so good for finding your way through a city. Street navigators have the opposite problem in the bushThe Magellan Crossover GPS works to correct all that. It can be used as a normal street navigator, as a marine chart GPS or as a topo map-style GPS unit. The unit can display pictures and play music.
The Crossover is built around a 20-channel SiRF Star 111 receiver with a built-in patch antenna ensuring that acquisition times are short while the accuracy of the unit is excellent, nominally within 7m. The in-built Lithium-ion battery lasts up to eight hours, while data storage and the number of tracks and waypoints can be logged and saved to an SD card. The 3.5in colour touch screen is easy to read, although the touch control is a little sensitive.
The unit comes with a lot of features preloaded for the USA such as maps and voice instructions that are all American. In Australia a preloaded SD Card provides turn-by-turn visual and voice guidance and maps to all Australian cities, towns and small communities.
As a city navigator and as a 'normal' GPS unit in "Outdoor Navigation Mode," it worked well, although loading the "Tracks" maps was a little convoluted. Once loaded, the unit performed the functions of plotting our route, saving waypoints and tracks and the normal GPS functions easily and quickly, but there's no option for UTMs.
Price for the Crossover GPS Traveller Pack with DiscoverAus Streets & Tracks on SD card is $1299. For more information on the Crossover GPS and your nearest dealer, contact Next Destination P/L, (08) 9444 0233, or visit www.magellan.com.au
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