Magellan eXplorist 500 - Manual (Page 38)

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Whether driving in a car, hiking on the trail, or out
for an afternoon sail, you are going to want to save
places you’ve been in your eXplorist so that you can
go back to them in the future. This is the
fundamental starting point for any GPS navigator.
Saving these places is called “Marking Your
position” or just MARK for short. The saved
positions are called points of interest, or just POIs.
(You may have heard the term “waypoints” to
describe marked positions. Waypoints and points of
interest are identical.)
There are four types of POIs available for your
eXplorist 500: POIs that you have marked (saved),
POIs that have been stored in your eXplorist as part of the built-in background map, POIs
that have been uploaded using the geocaching software, and POIs that have been uploaded
from a detailed map. These POIs are accessed from the same MENU option and can be
used independently or combined to create routes.
Marking Your Position
The most common way of adding POIs to the database will be to mark your present position.
There are two levels of marking your position. The first that will be described will be quick-
marking your position. The second method provides you with the means to personalize POIs
you are saving.
Quick Marking Your Position
This saves your present position in the database using mark-
position defaults.
1. Press MARK.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Select the file to save the POI in and press ENTER.
Note: If a position fix is not being computed or if only a 2D
position fix (no elevation information) is being computed, a
warning will be displayed asking you to confirm that you still
want to save this position.
When you save a 2D position fix you will notice that even though elevation was not
computed, that a elevation value is included as part of the POI. This elevation is the last
elevation that was computed by the eXplorist.
Tip: Later in this manual you will see a way to modify the icon, name, and message of
positions you have quick-marked.
Sample Mark Screen
Points of Interest