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Magellan eXplorist 510 Hiking GPS

Magellan eXplorist 510 Hiking GPS

Description

Rugged and waterproof (IPX-7), the eXplorist 510 combines high sensitivity GPS reception with easy-to-read mapping and accurate navigation. Find your way using more than 30 navigational data fields. Create waypoints, record tracks, and route from point to point. The integrated 3.2 mega-pixel camera, microphone, and speaker enable outdoor enthusiasts to record geo-referenced images and voice notes. Relive your outdoor adventures on the device, on your computer, or share with others on various online communities like geocaching.com. An advanced, rugged, and waterproof outdoor GPS with core outdoor navigation and experience recording built-in. Click to enlarge.

Enjoy paperless geocaching with the eXplorist 510. Download and view more than 20 unique characteristics of each cache and view, search, filter on the device. Details include name, location, description, hider, size, difficulty, terrain, hint, and recent logs created by other geocachers.

The eXplorist 510 packs the most accurate maps into the palm of your hand. The World Edition map allows for 2D or 3D viewing angles. It includes a complete road network in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia and major roads throughout the rest of the world and provides cartographic orientation in almost any location. This unique, preloaded map also includes water features, urban and rural land use, and a realistic shaded relief background.

The best of both worlds, the eXplorist 510 combines the user-friendliness of a touch screen with the reliability of two customizable hard buttons. Program the hard buttons to your two favorite or most-used functions. Powered by two AA batteries, the eXplorist 510 will last up to 15 hours under normal conditions. To help conserve power, use the suspend mode to turn off the device but maintain GPS tracking. You can also adjust power management settings to your preference.

Magellan's award-winning OneTouch favorites menu is now on our handheld devices. It provides instant access to bookmarks of favorite places. Set your home, base camp, and car. Easily re-assign a new location for each new adventure. 12 customizable icons to create personalized searches, save unique locations, or assign quick access to your favorite screens.

The eXplorist 510 features a 3.2 Mega-Pixel Camera with Auto Focus, allowing you to take photographs along your journey and reference the location where each photograph was taken afterward. Use the Integrated Microphone and Speaker to Record voice memos and playback in the field! All multimedia content can be geo-tagged with coordinates or attached to waypoints.

The World Edition Pre-loaded Map includes a detailed road network, water features, urban and rural land use, and a realistic shaded relief background.

The three-inch touch screen provides an intuitive touch screen user interface and a sunlight-readable screen, making the eXplorist easy-to-use in almost any environment.

The eXplorist GPS receiver supports GPX file format and connects seamlessly to a PC as an external drive, allowing for easy online experience sharing. Simply save files to and from the device and share with your favorite online communities.

Download and view more than 20 unique characteristics of each cache and view, search, filter on the device. Details include name, location, description, hider, size, difficulty, terrain, hint, and recent logs created by other geocachers.

The eXplorist GPS receiver is powered by two AA batteries and will last up to 16 hours under normal conditions. To conserve power, use the suspend mode to turn off the device but maintain GPS tracking. You can also adjust power management settings to your preference.

The eXplorist GPS Receiver is rugged and waterproof, submersible and tested to IPX-7 standards. It can withstand depths up to 1-meter for a total of 30 minutes.

The integrated SiRFStarIII GPS chipset provides up to 3 meters accuracy with the assistance of WAAS, EGNOS, and MSAS to provide the most accurate location information worldwide.

The Magellan eXplorist 510

Things we like

  • High-end construction standards and feature sets
  • Featuring a touchscreen display of 3 inches in size
  • Display with a high resolution that is easy to view
  • It contains two programmable buttons.
  • A video camera, an audio recorder, and a speaker.
  • Topographic maps preloaded for 12,000 of the United States' lakes.

Things we don't like

  • It is the item with the highest price on the list.
  • Even though it is advertised as having a battery life of 15 hours, it consumes batteries quickly.
  • When seen in direct sunlight, the screen becomes less visible.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are u.s. lakes including lake okeechobee included?

This would have water features included. That lake should be there.

I bought this unit for my son who geocaches, it shows that the closest is 80 miles away,, how do we download all the closer ones to this unit?

First go to MagellanGPS.com, then click on support. then go into manuals and software downloads, then click into the explorist series then go into the 510 and you can install the driver, when that is done go to geocaching web site, hook gps to the computer and when menu comes up click connect to computer. then go to one of the caches click into it and a small description of the cache will come up and from there it says download to gps. Click on that and it will bring up another menu for the gps and then you just click download and it will download all the information from the cache into your gps. This way only does it one at a time. I don't know how to download a whole bunch of them at once, hope this helps.

does this use google maps?

Not that I have found... It uses the pre-installed worlds maps which are similar to Google's...The best one to use is the Summit Series TOPO for your region, which you download after receiving the unit...I really like the rugged feel and accuracy with this unit... and as with most, carry extra batteries, although the life is better than some... updated fix is available for the traking in suspend mode problem, and mine tracks fine when suspended now...Hope this helps...

I just moved to Beijing. Will this help me map the city?

I have no idea. Sorry I can't help!