Worked with him for about a month and then gave up on it. I met the designer/developer of this program. Anyone have a better unified solution for jeeps? It seems that most GPS's for trails are small screen, hand held units aimed at hikers. Now, back to the Magellan, according to FunTreks, the issue with the Magellan is kind of the opposite of the Garmin "automotive" GPS, in that while they have trails, they do not have roads, so you cannot navigate to the trailhead on that unit, and Funtreks trails do not plot on this unit. They have a video on their web site to show you how. It basically plots the breadcrumbs as a road to follow in another map layer. However, in talking to FunTreks today, they have a hack for making their SD cards work on my Garmin. Turns out, after talking to Garmin for 1.25 hours yesterday, their "automotive" GPS's they make do not accept "tracks" or breadcrumbs from other sources. I have tried unsuccessfully to load their SD cards onto my Garmin Drive Smart 60. They have micro SD cards that have both the trail head waypoints, and trail breadcrumbs. I suppose many of you know of Charles Well's Funtreks trail guides. From what I am understanding, the Magellan does not do highway, so you are on your own finding the start of the trail. To me, right means that you can use one GPS to direct you by highway to the trail head, then have a detailed breadcrumb trail to follow. I started this thread hoping to hear that the Magellan eXplorist is doing GPS Jeep trails right. You can get the TRX app and use any tablet with a stand-alone GPS unit (I like the DUAL gps devices) for less money, then you'll have a functional tablet not something that IMO is extremely limited in it use. I should have returned it when I had the chance but I was fooled by their promises of all these great updates.IMO, the price versus actual function is not worth it. ![]() When I'm using the GoPro app it needs to have power a power supply cause the battery life when in actual use sucks. I managed to side-load a few apps like GoPro, Google maps and a couple of others but Google maps only works with Wi-Fi connection (if 'm using my phone as Wi-Fi I may as well just use my phone for directions) You can side-load some apps but it can be a pain in the ass finding the correct file and anything that relies on Google services will not run properly. The tablet itself is useless, it's android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean but does not run Google services because Magellan does not have a license agreement with Google. It does have the a lot of trails and they just added mapping to get you to the trail but you can't do any pre-routing or road trip mapping - it basically shows you where you're headed without actually guiding you to the trail. I have it, they keep promising useful updates but it's been about a year and it's still basically a brick.
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