Magellan eXplorist User Manual

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8Your eXplorist receiver comes with preloaded POI’s for a varietyof areas. However, you will find that you will want to add yourown POI’s to the database. POI’s that you save are accessed fromthe “My Pts of Interest” option of the databasSaving Your Present PositionFrom any screen, pressMark.Highlight Save and press Enter when done. You then justneed to select or create the data file you want this savedposition saved to.Some examples of POI’s you might want to save would be yourcampsite, a special landmark that you want to visit again at afuture date, fishing hotspots, even your car to help you find itwhen your day is done. Anytime you think you might want tocome back to your current location, you should save it to your POIdatabase and then it will be at your fingertips the next time youwant to return.You can change theinformation in any ofthe fields by usingthe joystick tohighlight the fieldand press Enter.You might be familiar with the more common navigationterm of “waypoint” for My Pts of Interest. Waypoints andMy Pts of Interest are exactly the same and the terminologyis interchangeableCreating User POI’s