Magellan GPS Waypoint Installation Instructions

Magellan Meridian Marine

There are two ways to load Angler Products Fishing Hotspots to your Magellan GPS

Loading Angler Products Fishing Hotspots to your Magellan GPS is easy. Here’s how you do it. I’m using the Meridian® Series of GPS Receivers but they all work pretty much the same. If you have problems with yours please don’t hesitate to contact us for assistance.

 Note: It’s important that you tell us when you order Angler Products Fishing Hotspots what type of GPS you’re using. A Magellan takes a different file format that a Garmin or a Lowrance does.

First Method: Using your computer to write the file to a blank MMC card.

The Magellan unit has a SD/MMC card slot for loading preprogrammed charts and also for transferring trip information between your PC and your GPS. When we send you the Angler Products Fishing Hotspots file you will load it to a blank SD/MMC card on your PC.

  (Note: If you don’t currently have a SD/MMC card reader / writer you can get one at your local electronics store for between $15 and $20 and they plug into your USB port or your PCMCIA slot. Blank SD/MMC cards are also available at these outlets for very reasonable prices. I use Fry’s or Best Buy around here, but they are available most anywhere they sell electronics, computers or cameras.)

 There are utilities built into the Meridian to assist you in using an optional Secure Digital memory card.

 To access the Card Utilities, press [MENU] from any screen and highlight “Card Utilities”. Press [ENTER].

 Loading Waypoints and Routes from Memory Card

  After accessing the Card Utilities menu, highlight “Load WP/Route” and press [ENTER]. A list of saved

waypoints and routes is displayed using the filenames that you provided when saving the waypoints and routes. Highlight the desired filename and press [ENTER].

 How the waypoints and routes are loaded: Loaded waypoints are appended to your existing waypoint list. That is to say, you will retain your existing waypoints and the loaded ones will be added. There are two exceptions. Existing waypoints with the same name as one being loaded will be overwritten. Also, once the limit of 500 waypoints in memory is reached, the loading of waypoints will stop.

 Save Waypoints and Routes to Memory Card

  After accessing the “Card Utilities menu, highlight “Save WP/Route” and press [ENTER]. Use the keyboard to enter a name for the saved waypoints and routes. Filenames are limited to 8 characters. Highlight “OK” and press [ENTER] when done. This will place all of your waypoints and routes on the SD card you have inserted in your Meridian . These waypoints and routes are not erased from your Meridian , only stored on the memory card for use later.  

Second Method: Connecting your GPS to your computer and using EasyGPS Software