Magellan Gold - HELP !!

[fidjit]

Hokay, I already have 4 GPSs but a mate of mine just gave me his old Magellan Gold. Who am I to offend him and refuse his kind offer

It's loaded with Aus maps so that's a bonus........

It's got a 128MB SD card installed ( which I think contains the maps )

So some quick questions....

1. On the About it shows:
V4.51 Australia 1.02 Sept 29 2003
Basemap - Australia 1.02

Are these the latest versions ??

2. It doesn't have the serial cable. Is there a way to load Waypoints onto the SD card and load them in ??

I've tried putting GPX , LOC and GS ( limit of 200 export ? ) files from GSAK onto the SD card but I doesn't see them if I go to
Card utilities/Load WP Route

Am I going to have to buy a serial cable ???

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Damo.]

It's been a few years since I loaded anything on my magellan, but if I recall correctly, the waypoints are on the unit so you will need a serial cable. (Saw a few pictures online that people had made up with old serial cables! Easy enough to find the pinouts and you can buy the parts at electronics stores if you wanted to try make one up.)
The maps are on the SD card and I used to remove it and put it in a card reader to load maps simply due to the massive speed advantage of USB over the serial transfer but you can do it either way. You can export waypoints to magellan from GSAK but I think it was just via the serial cable to the unit, not to the SD card.
I may be wrong on this, It's been a while.

[acts2youthgroup]

I have a mageelan Platinum, I an sure they are similar to the gold, I use GSAK to copy the waypoints to the SD card, you need to use the file export to "Magellan explorist command and sd card" command. The gps can only load 500 at a time though. once on the card use the card utilities load waypoint and then select the file you exported to the card.