Magellan eXplorist 400 Manual - English (for the UK) - Page 38
Points of Interest, Marking Your Position, Quick Marking Your Position - geocaching
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Points of Interest 31 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 400: 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 quickmarking 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 markposition 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. Sample Mark Screen 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.