Magellan eXplorist Quick manual

WARNINGS
IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY, DO NOT USE THIS NAVIGATION DEVICE WHILE DRI-
VING A VEHICLE.
Please do not try and change any settings on the Magellan eXplorist while driving.
Come
to acomplete stop or have apassenger make any changes. Taking your eyes off
the road is dangerous and can result in an accident in which you or others could be
injured.
USE GOOD JUDGEMENT
This product is an excellent navigation aid, but does not replace the need for careful
orienteering and good judgement. Never rely solely
on one device for navigating.
USE CARE
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is operated by the U.S. Government, which is
solely responsible for the accuracy and maintenance
of the GPS network.The accuracy
of position fixes can be affected by the periodic adjustments to GPS satellites made by
the U.S. government and is subject to change in accordance with the Department of
Defense civil
GPS user policy and the Federal Radionavigation Plan. Accuracy can also
be affected by poor satellite geometry and obstructions, like buildings and large trees.
USE PROPER ACCESSORIES
Use only Magellan cables and antennas; the use of non-Magellan cables and antennas
may severely degrade performance or damage the receiver, and
wi II void the warranty.
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of the equipment.
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you
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the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause
interference, and (2)
this device must accept any interference, including interference
that may cause undesired operation of this device.
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This guide will provide you with the basics of using the
Magellan@
eXplorist™ GPS receiver. If you require more
detailed descriptions of functions not described in
this guide,
please visit the Magellan eXplorist Support page at the
Magellan web site (www.magellangps.com).
Zoom In
Nav
Mark
Power
Arrow Joystick
Zoom Out
Menu
Zoom Out
e'
Allows you to zoom in or out on the Map screen.
Zoom
In
~
Nav •Used to select the navigational screen desired.
Menu
~
Brings up amenu, allowing you to access other
functions and customizing the display.
GOTO
lUsed to create aroute to adestination
that is
selected from the
list of POI's (points of interest).
Mark
~
Adds your present position to the Iist of PO I 'so
Enter
~
Accepts inputs and selections.
Escape XReturns you to last viewed screen.
If inputting
data, cancels changes as well.
Power
II
Turns the eXplorist receiver on or off.
.
Light
:0
Used to set the intensity of the display backlight.
Arrow Moves the cursor
on the Map screen and used to
Joystick highlight selections from menus.

The eXplorist GPS receiver is ahandheld personal navigation
device
that uses information from aconstellation of G PS
satellites to compute your present position. In its simplest form,
you select adestination from the
list of POI's (Points of Interest)
and the eXplorist receiver wi
II provide you with the information to
arrive at your destination.
Make sure
that the battery has been installed as per the
instructions in the Read
Me First document.
1. Compute your position ...
Turn the eXplorist on by pressing
the Power button, and then
pressing
.. Enter.
With aclear view of the sky,
your eXplorist receiver wi
II
begin tracking satellites and
computing your present posi-
tion.
Your eXplorist
begins acquiring
satellite information
and computes your
present position.
When "Position Fix"
is displayed in the
upper
left corner,
you are ready to
select your
destination.
Cu~tomize DOg;;
hl.·JPSetuD
Database
Routes
Track Lo"
Preferences
You can see the
progress of satel-
Iite data collec-
tion by viewing
the Satellite
Status screen
shown here.
Press
.;; Nav
until this screen
is displayed.
Pressing
the
G Nav button
will allow you to
select the navi-
gation screen,
(Map, Position or
Compass)
that
best su its your
needs.

2. Selecta destination ...
Press the GOTO __ button.
Next you need to select which major category
the PO Iyou want to go to resides. My Pts of
Interest are
pals you've created, Geocache
Pts are PO~ls that have been uploaded using
the Magellan Geocaching software, and
Background Map contains pals that were
preloaded into your eXplorist
with the
background map.
Browse either the
eXplorist's internal
memory (or
SD card if
installed) to find the
POI you want to go to.
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1$- POI002
Use the arrow
joystick
to high-
Iight yourdesired
destination and
press
..tJ Enter.
Bearing
231?~
Distance
31.8'1" .
3. Go to your destination.
As you travel you
wi
II notice that your
eXplorist wi II con-
tinually update your
position
as well as
providing you with
the necessary
detai
Is to arrive at
your destination.

Ttltning.the eXploristReceiver On
Press Power.
(Press and
hold for 2 - 3
seconds.)
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PRESS S
Press .. Enter.
After the eXplorist receiver successfully computes your present
position, the last viewed navigation screen is displayed.
Turning the· eXploristlteceiverOff
Press Power.
POWER DOWN
IN
4
SECONDS
PRESS
ESC ICEY
TO CANCEL
A sh utdown sequence
begins.
To cancel power off,
press X
Escape.
tSettingtheDisplayBacklight
Press Light.
•Each
ti me you press the Light button,
the display backlight changes from low
to high and back
to off .
The display backlight is a large drain on the
receiver's batteries.

The Map screen
is customizable.
Press
~ Menu,
highlight
Customize page
and press
..
Enter.
Your eXplorist receiver employs three different navigational
screens
to assist you in arriving at your destination. Pressing
the" Nav button allows you to cycle through the navigation
screens.
The Map screen displays
your present position
using amap of
the area
as the background. You
can zoom in or out using
the zoom in/out buttons
to show just the portion
of
the map you need.
The Map screen also displays
an indication of where you
have been
as adashed line (track history), as well as a
visual indicator of aroute you may
be navigating on.
location
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plays your present posi- Elevation Accuracy
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Trip Odomete~ Battery
played is your elevation, _QJ!QQ~~J
accuracy, date and time,
tripodometer and battery life.
You can reset
the
tri podome-
ter by pressing
1m Menu, high-
Iight Reset
Tri p
and pressing
..
Enter.
The Compass screen The Compass
uses agraphical com- screen is also
pass to provide you with customizable.
information used to navi- Press 1m Menu,
gate to your destination. highlight
An icon outside the com- Customize page
pass ring indicates your and press .,
destination and the com- Enter.
pass points in the direction you are heading.

The eXplorist stores data (POls, routes, track logs, etc.) as
ASCII text files to either an SO card or to its internal memory.
Files saved internally or
to an SO card can be opened and
viewed
on apersonal computer providing you added flexibility
in modifying and storing data to be used in your eXplorist.
Whenever you save aPOI, route or
track log or if you are
creating a
GOTD or a multileg route, you need to tell the
eXplorist where you want the
file saved or retrieved from.
This is done through the internal browser in the eXplorist.
File Structure
Inlern(l~ Memory SD Card
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Bac kg:' oun:d M,aps a·-=
Deta~ I ftAaps Cl"·
lJ\yPOIs D
R.(Jl~tes D
Trock Logs w",
Geocaches W····
a TrackL.~s
.aGeocaches
CJ Bocki'OUf>d Maps
.. a Detai~ HiapS
CJ My P.Ols
DRoutes
The eXplorist uses
(and creates
automatically
on an
SO card) abasic fi Ie
structu re with
default folders for
storing the data.
You have the
opportunity of
creating your own folders and new ASCII data files. Those
items are covered in greater depth in the Reference User
Guide.
When you save or retrieve a
fi Ie you wi II be taken to either the
defauIt folder and data fi
Ie for files of that type or the defauIt
folder and data
file that you assign in Preferences> Active
Setup.
Points to Remember:
•All data is saved in files
•
POI and route files can contain multiple items; track
log files contain only one item.
•
You can create new folders and new files to better
organize your data.

File Structure
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.. emory\My Poi\default
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$- POIOO2
$- POIOO3
Bearing Distance
...
This is asample of the My POls folder.
The
first item, Up One Level, is used to move
around the fi
Ie hierarchy.
The second item, New Folder, provides you
the tool to add a new folder at
this level.
New POI File is used to create anew ASCII
text fi
Ie to save your POI's too. In the sample shown here,
Yosemite is a new
POI file that was created for this sample to
save POI's created while hiking through Yosemite National
Park.
The last item, Default POI File, is the
default ASCII text file
where POI's you save are stored. This is the file that is
provided
as a default to save POI's in until you have created
your own
POI file.
This sample displays what is shown when you
access the
default POI file. There is an Up
One Level item that is again used to move
around the fi
Ie hierarchy. Below that is a
listing of all the files that have been stored in
this POI ASCII file.
ASCII Text Data Files
An advanced feature of saving data in ASC II text files is that
it provides another means of utilizing and modifying data that
you have recorded. Using an external card reader or by
connecting your eXplorist to your personal computer, you can
now access the files
that you have saved. All of the
information
is there to be used as you need or modified with
a
simple text editor like Notepad. Keep in mind that
modifying some of the information may cause the POI to be
unusable or have unexpected results.

Your eXplorist receiver comes with preloaded POI's for avariety
of areas. However, you will
find that you will want to add your
own POI's to the database. POI's
that you save are accessed
from
the" My Pts of Interest" option of the database.
SavingYour Present Position
From any screen, press
~ Mark.
You can change the infor-
Imation in any of the fields
"---.1 by using the arrow joystick
,,--liiiiiiill to highlight the field and
press
.. Enter.
HighI ight Save and press"" Enter when done. You then
just need to select or create the data file you want this
saved position saved to.
~I!~~;!I Some examples of POI's you might want to save
l~ would be your campsite, aspecial landmark
.' ,", that you want to visit again at a future date,
- ! fishing hotspots, even your car to help you find
it when your day is done. Anytime you think
you might want to come back to your current
location, you should save
it to your POI database and then it
will be at your fingertips the next time you want to return.
You might be familiar with the more common navigation term
of "waypoint" for My Pts of Interest. Waypoints and My Pts of
Interest are exactly the same and the terminology is
interchangeable.

GOTO ·aDestination
You can use your eXplorist receiver to go to ("GOTO") any
destination
in your POI database. This can be one of the pal's
that was preloaded in your eXplorist receiver, ageocaching
point or a
POI that you have saved. Once a GOTO route has
been defined, your eXplorist receiver will guide you in astraight
line to your destination.
If you need to move away from the
suggested path, the eXplorist receiver will continuously update
the route, keeping
you headed towards your destination.
Setting aGOTO Route
From any screen, press __ Goro.
Select the topic in your database where the
POI is located. Highlight the topic that con-
tains the POI you are looking for is in. Use
the left or right arrows on the joystick, select
Alphabetical or Nearest.
Choose the
POI that you want to go to and
press
.. Enter. The information at the bottom
of
the screen is the bearing and distance to the
highlighted POI from your present position.
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1$- POI002
The last viewed Nav screen is displayed and the eXplorist
receiver begins computing the navigational information
required to get you to your destination.
Some navigational information
that is
computed requires that you be moving for it to
be calculated. When that information is not
being calculated, the navigational fields will
be
filied with dashes.

As you travel with your eXplorist receiver on, it will
continuously record your track. Track is then ahistory of
everywhere you have gone. At anytime you want to reverse your
direction and head back to where you started, you can create a
Backtrack route. This route will
automatically be computed
using
the track history stored in your eXplorist receiver.
Creating aBacktrack Route
From any screen, press
Menu. Use the arrow
joystick
to highlight
"Track Log" and press
..., Enter.
With Active Track high-
lighted, press
n!I
Menu.
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E:ltStth ...
EJ TrackLog 1
Legs Distance
0.00
( Stop Logging
[Save
Clear'
Track
Convert to Route
View on Map
Help
Active Track is the active
track history since the last
time track was cleared.
Other Track Logs in
the
Iist are track logs that you
have saved for
future use.
Highlight "BackTrack" and
press
-+J Enter. You will
return to the Nav screen and
begin seeing information
to
guide you along your track
back to your point of origin.
Your track history may go back further then your intended
destination.
You may want to clear your track (from the
Track Log menu above, highlight "Clear Track" and press
Enter) before you begin your travels so when you do a
backtrack route,
it is limited to just the track history desired.
You can also save your track history using the Save
command from the "Track Log" option or convert the track
to one of your saved routes with the "Convert to Route"
option. This will allow your eXplorist receiver
to guide you
over the same path at a
future date.

Distance
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Legs
Adv. ~Qtures
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Routes
...------, The Track Log •••••
is divided into ..IlMmory\TrClck logs
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two areas: lillCSMM_
Active Track l:§l TrClckLogl
and Track
Logs.
As mentioned earlier, your eXplorist receiver records your
track and allows you to use this information to create aroute,
backtrack or
just to provide you with avisual indication of
your journeys.
Accessing Track Logs
From any screen,
press ~Menu. Use
the arrow joystick to
highIight "Track
Log" and press
.,
Enter.
Active Track
ISave
BackTrack
Clear Track
Convert to Route
View on Map
Help
Active Track is the track that is presently being
created
by your eXplorist receiver. Highlighting
"Active Track" and pressing" Enter brings up
amenu offering achoice of activities
to perform
on your active route.
Stop Logging: Turns the recording of your track
off.
Resume Logging: (Displayed if Track has been stopped).
Continues recording track from
the point when it was stopped.
New Track: (Displayed if Track has been stopped). Erases old
track logging and begins recording anew track log.
Save: Allows the present track to be saved as atrack log.
BackTrack: Creates aroute that traces your track from your
present position back
to where the track started.
Clear Track: Erases the active track from memory.
Convert to Route: Changes the track into aroute that can be
accessed from the "Routes" menuoption.
View on Map: Graphically displays the track on the Map screen.

-When
an active track is saved it becomes one
of your stored track logs.
Highlight the
desired track log and press
~ Enter for alist
of track log options.
Track Logs
{.
[Reverse Track
[Delete Track
[Move Track
Copy Track
Follow Track: Navigates from the start of the ~f;~e;~ ~a:oute
track log to the end. • ... H ... el ...
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Reverse Track: Same as Follow track but navigates from the
end of the track log to the starting point.
Delete Track: Removes the selected track log from memory.
Copy Track: Copies the track log to anew file.
Move Track: Moves the selected track log to anew location,
either
on the SD card or internally.
Convert to Route: Changes the track into aroute that can be
accessed from the "Routes" menu option.
View on Map: Graphically displays the track on the Map screen.

If you understand the concept of a GOTO route being a
straight route with astarting and ending point, then you can
understand
multileg routes. A multileg route is many GOTO
routes linked together. So instead of having aroute that only
goes from Ato
B, you can create routes that go from Ato B
to Cto Dand
so on.
Accessing Routes
From any screen,
press ~Menu.
Use the arrow
joystick to
highlight "Routes"
and press
."
Enter.
New Route
.Hide Map Info
(Customize page
(Map Setup
Pts of Interest
'.*;,-
Track Log
Adv. Features
Preferences
Helll
•
Any routes
saved wi
II be
displayed
along with
an
option to
create a new
route.
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[j New route
When "New route" is selected, the Create
Route screen is displayed. Press" Enter
with "<Add POI>" to go to the POI database
to select the next
PO lin the route Iist. If you
highlight an existing item in the route list and
press
[g] Menu, you wi II be given the choices
of inserting a
POI before the one highlighted,
deleting the highlighted
POI from the route or just replacing
it with a new POI.
When you have the route organized like you want it, use the
arrow joystick to highIight Save Route and
press'" Enter.
Use the joystick to enter aname for the route, highlight the
"OK" button and press" Enter.

•
Using aSaved Route
Highlighting aroute you have saved and
pressing
rrn Menu brings up alist of options you
can perform
on that route.
Activate/Deactivate Route: Assigns the selected
route
as the route you are wanting to follow or
tu rns off the routing for that route if it was
already active.
Edit Route: Allows you to insert, delete or add POI's to the
existing route.
Reverse Route: Stores
the selected route in reverse order.
Delete Route: Removes
the selected route from the eXplorist
memory.
Move Route: Moves the selected route from
the SO card to
internal memory or from internal memory to the SO card,
depending upon its present location.
Copy Route: Copies
the route to the location on the SO card or
internal memory location you choose.
View on Map: Graphically displays
the route on the Map screen.

The POI database is the place where your saved positions ("My
Pts of Interest"), geocaching pals or any preloaded positions
are stored for easy access when creating a GOTO or multi leg
route.
Accessing·the,POI Database
From any screen, press ~
Menu. Use the arrow
joystick to highlight "Pts
of Interest" and press
..
Enter.
Hide Map Info
Customize page
Map Setup
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R.outes
Track Log
Adv. Features
Preferences
Helb
Alist of POI types are displayed for you to
select from.
If you select" My Pts of Interest," a Iist of
types of
pals are are displayed in the order you
defined.
If you highlight one of the displayed
POI's and press
rm Menu, you will be able to
edit or delete the POI. (Shortcut: pressing
Enter with the
POI highlighted goes into the edit mode.)
Geocache Pts provides apath to
pal's that you have added
using the Magellan geocaching software.
From "Background Map," you will be given alist of topics,
such
as cities, highways, airports, waterways and parks. After
selecting one of these topics, akeyboard is displayed
if the
alphabetical listing is chosen.
As the list of pal's in the
database can
be enormous, you can use the keyboard to enter
the
first few characters in the POI you are looking for when
doing
an alphabetical search. With the first few characters
entered, highlight
"OK" and press'" Enter. This will speed
up the search for the
POI you are seeking. When you have the
POI selected, pressing" Enter brings up information about
that POI. You can also save it as one of your user POI's or view
it on the Map screen.

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Your eXplorist receiver has a built-in help function that can
provide you information to help you
while using it. This is a
general help
function that should answer most of your
questions about the eXplorist receiver and its use.
Accessing Screen Specific Help
From most ,_-" __ ,,,_,".11"'._
screens, press 1m HidtZ Map Into "I ;::1:,'.'
Me n u. Highiig ht ~::o~~:ppagtZ
Pts of InttZrest
"Help" and press Routes
I Track Log
... Enter to access Adv. Features
Preferences
II
the help screens. ";11
If there is specific help
fi Ie for the screen you
are viewing, it will be
displayed, otherwise, a
Iist of topics is shown.
AboutYour eXplorist Receiver
Accessing the About ... screen wi II provide you information
about
the software version and memory usage of your eXplorist
GPS receiver ..
The About ...
From any Nav
screen, press mI
Menu. Highlight
"About. .. "and
press
.. Enter to
access the
About ... screen.
ustomlze page
Map
Setup
Pts of Interest
Routes
Track Log
Adv. Features
Preferences
Help
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date,
mapping
detail
(if applicable), and
number of routes, POI's,
length of active track and
track logs.
The Property of: field will display
the information you entered
in the Name field after you have personalized your eXplorist
receiver. (See the section
on Preferences for information on
personaIizing.)

Hide Map Info
Customi ze page
Map Setup
Pts of Interest
Routes
Track Log
Adv. Features
Accessing Preferences
From any Nav
screen, press ~
Menu. Use the
arrow joystick to
highlight
Preferences and
press
41 Enter.
Restarting GPS (Initializing)
Use the arrow
joystick to Active Setup
highIight the Map Units
desired ~;s:~~ement
function and ~~~~\:mory
.. IAlarms &Beeper
press'" Enter. Clock
When To Restart GPS: Your eXplorist always starts looking for
satellites assuming
it is in the same location as when it was
turned off. Traveling more than
500 miles with your eXplorist
receiver turned off may cause delays in position computation.
Restarting
GPS is not mandatory but will decrease the time
taken to compute your position following such amove.
Changing the Active Setup
Whenever you save aPOI, create aroute, geocache points or
the maps you wish to access (basemap or detail map), your
eXplorist will automatically take you to the preassigned
default
folder.
This is
fine for normal operation but if you want to access a
different folder multiple times you may find it easier to set a
personal
default folder. For example, you may have created a
file named Yosemite for acamping trip you are on. For this
trip every POI you save or retrieve will come from the Yosemite
file and it is faster to set this file as your default.
From the HighIight the type of
Preferences file desired and press
screen,
highlight .. Enter. Browse
Active Setup and through the folders to
press" Enter. find the fi Ie you want
to set as the default
and press ... Enter.

Changing Map Units
Map Units has four selectable options: Nav Units,
North Reference, Coord. System and Map Datum.
Highlight the desired option and press" Enter.
Nav Units: Allows you to select the units of measure used for
displayi
ng navigation and position measurements.
North Reference: Used to set the top of the map display to True
North or Magnetic North.
Coordinate System (Coord S'y?tem): Used to select the coordinate
system used to display position information.
Map Datum: Allows you to select the map datum used for mapping
information.
If you are using apaper map or chart in conjunction
with your eXplorist receiver,
be sure that the map datum selected
matches the map datum for the map or chart
you are using.
Setting Power Management
Power Management options are used to help preserve battery
life in your eXplorist receiver. Under Power Management
you
have three options, Power Off Timer, Light Timer and Beeper.
Power Off Timer: Set the time that your eXplorist receiver will
turn
off automatically if no keys have been pressed and you are
not moving.
Light Timer: Set the time that the backlight for the display will
turn
off automatically if no keys have been pressed.
Beeper: Set when the beeper will be audible. The beeper can be
set to Off, Keys Only, Alarms Only or Keys &Alarms.