Product Description: for use with Magellan Sportrak Pro and Marine, Meridian Color, Platinum, Gold, and Marine
Amazon.com Product Description: The Magellan MapSend BlueNav Magellan MapSend BlueNav CD-ROM (North America) offers the most complete detailed marine cartography for the waterways of North America available anywhere. The CD-ROM includes 83 local North American navigational charts that are based on Navionics Gold charts, making them the most advanced marine cartography on the market today. With Magellan MapSend BlueNav Charts, beginning boaters will be able to navigate unfamiliar waterways with the confidence of a veteran navigator, and professional navigators will know they have the latest and most reliable information on the waterways that they need in order to deliver their passengers and their cargo safely.
Magellan MapSend BlueNav Charts are designed to be used in Magellan handheld GPS receivers and GPS chart plotters, including the Magellan Meridian Gold, Marine, Platinum and Color or Magellan SporTrak Pro, SporTrak Pro Marine and SporTrak Color. The charts can also be read on a compatible personal computer. (See Technical Specifications for System Requirements.) Each chart features large, highly detailed coverage areas and enhanced marine navigation information, including marine currents, tides, port services and detailed descriptions of marinas. Each chart also provides updated information on emergency services available, offering navigators the added security of knowing where to find help when it is needed.
In order to download charts to your unit, the product must be activated. (See below for details.) Once your CD is activated, MapSend BlueNav charts can be uploaded from your computer to a Secure Digital (SD) memory card (not included) for use with your Magellan Meridian GPS receiver or directly to the built-in memory of your SporTrak Pro GPS receiver. The Magellan MapSend BlueNav CD-ROM (North America) is ideal for mariners who wish to use a large number of charts interchangeably by over-writing new charts for each new journey.
With Magellan MapSend BlueNav Local Charts and a Magellan GPS Receiver, navigators have access to all the information they need at the tips of their fingers. Each chart includes information on currents and tides, as well as detailed descriptions of marinas, and with MapSend BlueNav Local Charts, the latest information for the nearest services or closest port with emergency facilities is a finger tip away, making navigation through unfamiliar waterways safer and easier than ever. Magellan MapSend BlueNav Charts allow boaters to truly enjoy the water by providing them with the security, convenience and peace of mind that they need.
Coverage 83 Local Navigational Charts covering North American waterways
What's in the Box One CD-ROM
Activation To unlock your Magellan MapSend BlueNav software call toll-free in the U.S.: (866) 339-0487, or online at https://www.magellangps.com/en/products/keys.asp
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Buy a Garmin
I just bought a Magellan SporTrak PRO Marine and the MapSend Blue Nav software. I have never been as disappointed in a purchase or subesequent product support in my life. Save yourself a LOT of aggravation and wasted time... buy a Garmin. That's what I'm about to do. I will NEVER buy another product from Magellan.
Rating: - Only one map at a time!!!
I read the older reviews and went ahead and bought the BlueNav CD anyway, in the hope that Magellan would have corrected the shortcomings reported previously. Unfortunately, they did not. The biggest problem is the limitation of one map at a time!!! You can only use one SD card (the one you activate) and can only have one map on it at a time. You can change maps, but need a laptop and a lot of time for this. I'm a kayaker (and don't generally carry a laptop in the boat with me), so this product is totally useless for me in any but the most limited circumstances.
Rating: - Compatibility is a Nightmare
The Amazon compatibility block says it works with Sportrak Color but the online Magellan site for getting an unlock code doesn't provide an option other than for SD cards which the Sportrak doesn't use. Go with Garmin. I have run into more weird documentation and support issues with Magellan than I can name.
Rating: - Blue Nav Program is a Rip Off
I own a Magellan Meridian Marine unit. Just found out that you can only get 1 access code per program. I purchased 2 64 meg cards in hopes of downloading more than 1 map per card. Not only can I not down load more than 1 map, I cannot get an access code for additional cards. Lost money all the way around.
Magellan offered me the opportunity to buy the Blue Nav XL charts at $179.00, but low and behold, they come with the same defect of 1 unlock code per program.
I was a believer in Magellan, but switching to Garmin today!
David.
Rating: - Totally dissatisfied with the product
Lost my Color Merridian overboard and had to replace the GPS. When I recieved the new GPS I called Magellan to get a new unlock code so I could load the charts on my replacement GPS. I was informed I would have to purchase a new bluenav CD since they only issue one unlock code with no exceptions. Well my exception is I will never buy another Magellan product Hardware / Software. As for the replacement Color Merridian it is being returned today. In the future I will purchase Garmin.
