| MapSend WorldWide Basemap software enables you to create a basemap for any region of the world and upload it to your mapping Magellan GPS receiver. Adding WorldWide basemaps to your Magellan GPS receiver creates a seamless overlay on the built-in map with greater detail for easy navigation on all your local and international travels. Select a region on your PC and upload it to your GPS. New basemaps can be overwritten and stored on optional Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, or in the internal memory of your expandable Magellan GPS receiver. WorldWide Basemap is licensed for use with a single Magellan GPS. Each basemap region you define contains the essential basic map features such as cities, highways, waterways, railroads, national boundaries and shorelines. WorldWide Basemap also includes basic topography contours, which can help you stay oriented and locate major points of interest. In addition to the visual map presentation, the map features can be located using the search function on your GPS or PC. Easily toggle between the built-in basemap and your new WorldWide Basemap. Your Magellan GPS receiver will automatically transition to a detailed map when the zoom scale is 0.4 miles or less and the majority of the displayed is covered by the map for seamless GPS navigation. Features: - WorldWide detail - Create a more detailed Basemap for any region of the world - Seamless overlay - Detailed maps are added to your built-in map to easily switch between them or |
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 Really Disappointing |
| Review Date: November 29, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. Marshall, |
I purchased this software for use with my MAP330.
I've used the trusty MAP330 from Arizona to Alaska to Florida and it's been a great traveling companion.
I have a vacation planned to the Caribbean, so I thought I'd load it up with some maps of the area.
Initially the WWBM software wouldn't load on my XP machine, and gave ERROR-15 Can't Load Drivers. I finally shut down every other running program including my anti-virus and it finally got past the error. Fair enough...the instructions do say to close all programs.
Next the program couldn't find the CD even though it was in the drive. I rebooted, and the software now sees the CD and comes up. The first thing it says is that I need version 4 of the firmware in my GPS.
I have version 2.
Ok, so I go to the Magellan site, and look under their support section for discontinued models...and there were no updates available. Nice.
I finally ended up at the yahoo M330 group (those folks are great!) and found advise and files to upgrade to version 4.
So I plugged in my newly updated GPS and fired up the program. It came up and detected my M330, so right away I zoomed my windows screen in on the island of St. Maarten and found myself staring at a beige outline of the island with absolutely NO detail.
No roads. No cities. No topo info.
Just so I'd at least have an outline of the island in the GPS, I ran the upload process. It immediately failed and told me I have an incorrect version of the software.
I gave up at this point.
I'm very annoyed with Magellan for creating this sub standard un-friendly product. In spite of the very dependable M330 unit, I think I will look to a company with better software support for the next GPS.
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Very unprecise, but better than nothing
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| Review Date: March 29, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Boris, USA |
I bought MapSend Worldwide Basemap to use on my Magellan Map 330 on a trip to Israel. It's an old model of Magellan GPS, and doesn't allow downloading anything but Magellan maps. Unfortunately, Magellan never made a detailed map for Israel, so I thought I'd make do with the base map.
The software works very similarly to MapSend Streets that I got with the GPS, though the interface seems a bit improved. Unfortunately, it only allows a single rectangular map to be uploaded into GPS (unlike the detailed maps from MapSend Streets, it's possible to upload four of those).
As it turned out, the base map for Israel is very poor. Many major roads are missing from the map, and many are off by as much as a mile and a half (two kilometers). At one point we got lost because of it - we turned off at a wrong intersection.
The base map was only useful as a _very_ rough assistance to navigating a paper map.
Interestingly enough, the base map also included topographic notation for heights, and that seemed to be much more precise than the roads.
When I was planning the trip, I had a choice. Either buy MapSend Worldwide Basemap, or buy a cable that would allow me to connect the GPS to my wife's PDA, plus some GPS software for the PDA. I chose the MapSend, and regretted this choice more than once. Live and learn! |
MY GOD WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY
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| Review Date: March 24, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Mazzta, |
| i ordered cause i want to make a trip to south america, so i waited for the cd (with the maps) and what i received was a useless cd, i installed in my pc, and after says that will no work, i installed the patch, and guess?? it didn`t work, so i emailed the tech support, and they said "we have a problem with the security stuff in the cd, we are working on it, when we have fix it, we will send a new cd for you" and guess..... (yes you are right) 1 year and a half passed, and i don`t have the cd..., what a bad tech support.., then pleople say, don`t go to piracy..... don`t waste your money.., |
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