| | |  | GPS Units | Home » » » » Delorme Earthmate Pn-60 | | | | | | | Description: | | The rugged, reliable Earthmate PN-60 delivers next-generation GPS capabilities, plus DeLorme's market-leading map and aerial imagery displays. DeLorme Topo North America desktop software and GPS maps are included, with comprehensive detail for all your favorite outdoor activities in the U.S and Canada. Aerial imagery, nautical charts, and supplemental USGS and Canada topo maps are also available.  Next-generation GPS capabilities, plus DeLorme's market-leading map and aerial imagery displays. |  Tested in the world's most extreme conditions. |  Find your position on up-to-date DeLorme Topo USA 9.0 maps. |  View cutaway elevation profiles with your position pinpointed. | Rugged, Reliable GPS With Maps Included
Key Features - Intuitive icon-based user interface for easy on-device navigation
- Elevation profile cutaway views that pinpoint the user's position
- GPX file exchange (waypoints, routes, tracks, and geocaches) to SD card for ease and flexibility in archiving collected GPS data
- Latest DeLorme power management system with ambient light sensor for optimal battery life
- 3.5 GB of user-available Flash memory
Maps
Whatever your preferred activity, you'll never have to settle for just one map. Find your position on up-to-date DeLorme Topo USA 9.0 maps (included). Navigate worry-free with complete U.S. topographic detail, extensive trail coverage, U.S. and Canada streets, roads, and places of interest including campgrounds, boat launch sites, unique natural features, prime hunting and fishing spots. The PN-60 comes with up-to-date DeLorme Topo USA 9.0 map detail included, both on PN-Series Map DVDs (Mac-compatible) for transfer to the GPS, and in a PC desktop software program. Outdoor Activities
The PN-60 supports all popular outdoor activities. Features include a highly-accurate 3-axis electronic compass that works when held in any position, moving on foot or standing still. For traveling in elevation, there is an elevation profile tool that pinpoints your location and a sensitive barometric altimeter for precise elevation readings and the ability to gauge potential weather changes. These elevation features are particularly useful for hikers, climbers, and hunters. The ability to display NOAA nautical charts make the PN-60 a valuable navigator for sea kayaking and coastal sailing. The PN-60 fully supports paperless geocaching, and offers almanac pages with information on tides, hunting and fishing favorability, and sunrise/sunset and moon phases. Geocaching
DeLorme has devoted significant resources toward offering a rewarding geocaching experience. In addition to the unique value of available aerial imagery, the PN-60 delivers a wide range of paperless geocaching capabilities. Individual caches can be downloaded, with all information included, from Geocaching.com. The PN-60 and Topo USA also support imports of high volume Pocket Queries from Geocaching.com, and they allow virtually unlimited cache description character counts, so you'll have all the information you need on the device, including other cachers' log notes. The optional DeLorme Cache Register download delivers enhanced paperless geocaching functions. Sync your Pocket Query search results directly to the PN-60, and sync your user logs and other cache details to Geocaching.com. Why DeLorme? DeLorme is the innovation leader in high-quality maps and GPS units for everyone from recreational customers to businesses to government agencies. Proven in the most extreme conditions, from the bitter cold of the North Pole and Mt Everest to the heat and sand of Iraq and Afghanistan, DeLorme products are well known for rock-solid design, accuracy, and reliability. DeLorme is a disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and takes great pride in engineering outstanding maps, software, and GPS units right here in the United States. What's in the Box Earthmate PN-60 GPS, Topo North America 9.0, 5 Regional Discs of PN-Series Maps, User Manual, Quick Start Guide, 2 Energizer e2 Lithium AA Batteries, USB Cable, Certificate for $40 Worth of Data Downloads, Neck Lanyard | | | Features: | |
• 3 Axis electronic compass and barometric altimeter
• Power mamagement system with ambient light sensor for optimal battery life
• Exchange GPS Files to SD cards(including waypoints, tracks and geocaches)
• Unrivaled Map and Imagery Choices
• 3.5 GB of user-available memory
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.34 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 101 reviews |
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93 of 94 found the following review helpful:
 Much better model for mapping GPSJul 04, 2010
By C. Dillman
The PN-60 is a much better unit than the PN-40. Battery life is infinitely longer compared to the PN-40 (I had one) this unit will go all day on the Li-ion rechargeable pack. Additionally, the new menu system is far quicker to navigate and the profile view showing elevation is great for hikes. This unit teamed with the new Topo 9 also provides for quicker and simpler map and routing downloads. As far a GPS units this one may not have the biggest screen or smallest size etc... the reason you buy this unit is for the data layering and the Delorme maps - nothing comes close for $29.95 / year.
Check out the Delorme web site for plenty of examples.
66 of 67 found the following review helpful:
Everything I needed, plus moreSep 02, 2010
By Patrick
I realized I wanted a GPS when I discovered geocaching, it took me one time going with a friend to find a cache and then I was hooked. I did however, spend at least 2 weeks shopping around, reading about GPSr's from every company I could learn about, and then narrowed it down to a few. Both Delorme's were in my radar, as well as the Garmin Oregon, Dakota, and GPSmap series. My friend owns a GPSmap60csx from Garmin, and I must admit that those have extremely exceptional accuracy, which most reviews and forums will attest to. I also learned that the Garmin Oregon and Dakota have had issues with attaining WAAS satellite locks, which took them out of the picture. These WAAS satellites give a much more accurate reading, and when you're looking for caches in thick woods, pinpointing the area is crucial. What made me decide on Delorme over the GPSmap is mostly the software that Delorme offers. From my experience with both GPS', the Garmin may be slightly more accurate in readings, by about a foot, which is a negligible amount. Having said that, back to the software, Delorme's Topo NA software is incredibly in depth, (although not very intuitive). As well as Delorme's map subscription package, you have many options for how your GPS will portray its data to you. I mean, for adding the $30 subscription to your total price, you have access to satellite images, USGS quad maps (which is amazing!), aerial photos, nautical maps, canada topo maps.... it just can't be beat. And with the Topo software, you can layer and customize all the maps to work together as one super map on your GPS. Not to mention the Earthmate PN-60 has a much nicer, newer interface than the Garmin GPSmap.
All in all, I am extremely satisfied with my purchase of this product. It offers everything I wanted for geocaching, plus with a car mount, this works very well as an in car navigating GPS, and for bicycling too. Also with the nautical charts it will work great for boating and fishing as well. Many reviews I read about this GPS complained about the screen being too small for a car, but for someone with avg-good eyesight, it is perfectly readable. Lastly, I would seriously recommend buying this from Amazon, as I got impatient and bought it from a different store, which had the best price with my coupon added on. But to my dismay, only 2 days after I purchased it elsewhere, Amazon dropped their price almost $100 cheaper than they had had it listed for. So I say for this new listed price on this product, it is a steal!
68 of 76 found the following review helpful:
 Seems powerful -- is incredibly frustratingFeb 04, 2011
By Mike in PDX
"Mike in PDX"
This review will confirm and expand on the unhappy review by Jon Robert. The PN-60 is best suited for someone with extensive prior experience with GPS or who can get tutoring on the device. As a novice user of handheld GPS, I may have thrown the $239 price down the toilet, as I've not been able to do much useful with it so far.
The PN-60 appears quite powerful and cleverly designed. However, it is complex, and the manual describes the GPS as a collection of screens that one can invoke -- it scrupulously avoids saying how to accomplish any high-level task (such as finding your way) one might want to use a GPS for. After reading the entire manual (!!!!), I am scarcely less in the dark about using this thing than I was before. Why DeLorme never thought of writing a task-oriented user's manual is a puzzle.
The supplied Topo software is also quite powerful and also poorly documented. However, I have not yet waded through all its documentation. The GPS manual, by the way, says almost nothing about the Topo software, although it is required to use the GPS most fruitfully.
(I should mention that I am not a stranger to technical things. I have a PhD in a scientific field; I have used computers since 1966; I have written software used widely in my field; I have a large and growing collection of gadgets that I CAN use effectively.)
In conclusion, The PN-60 is a well-built device with great promise but incredibly, frustratingly, bad documentation. The unit is highly complex, the related software is also complex, and you are pretty much on your own in figuring how to use them. (The online Wiki has bits of the manual only, and is no help.) If you have a LOT of time on your hands and like to solve difficult puzzles, this would be a great GPS for you. Or if you have extensive previous experience with GPS, you may not have the frustrating experience I did. The PN-60 is NOT RECOMMENDED for beginning GPS users.
30 of 32 found the following review helpful:
Great for Cycle CachingAug 25, 2010
By Dr. C
I upgraded from an Explorist 100, so this was quite a change.
I've been Geocaching for a couple of years now and one thing I really like is cycle caching. For me it is going on a bike ride with the goal of getting at least one cache. It gives me some extra motivation to get out there and ride.
The PN-60 is ideal for this application because it can do a street as well as hiking route to the cache. If I'm far away, I'll set the route to be driving and it will give me turn by turn instructions on how to get to the cache. Once I'm within striking distance I switch to route by hiking and I can zero in on the cache.
I usually use a pocket query from [...] to load all the caches in the area I'm riding. That way, if I'm riding along and decide to go for another cache, I can discover one close by.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Lots of Bang for the BuckNov 06, 2011
By Michael J. Andress
Before I buy anything off of Amazon I read all the reviews written by Amazon buyers. In most cases I'll read reviews written by customers of other vendors.
In the case of the Delorme PN-60 all reviews that I read mentioned the broad feature set that the unit features which includes WAAS, geocaching features, a powerful software package that interfaces with the unit, Topo level maps included for the US, Canada and Mexico, map layering which supports satellite and aerial imagery. Included are an electronic compass and barometric altimeter. For geocachers the unit supports geocaching.com plugins, .loc and gpx file formats. I was impressed with the ability to add up to 32Gb of additional memory with an SDHC card. I was impressed that all this could be had for $249 compared to other units with equivalent features that cost $400+ and $500+ in some cases.
What I wasn't impressed with were the many reviews that complained that the documentation for the unit and Topo 9 software were incomplete and difficult to understand. In addition many complained that maps take excessive amounts of time to load or will not load at all. Luckily for me I've learned in 33 years of computer use that more often than not if something doesn't work right it is the nut behind the wheel and not the wheel that is usually the problem. With reservations I purchased the PN-60.
Folks I'm here to tell you that the PN-60 performs as advertised. 1st time out of the box it took around 3 minutesfor the unit to find, lock on to and generate it's position. After that the lock normally has taken a minute or less. I tried getting a lock from inside my house. Takes a bit longer but it locked on to 5 satellites with ease. In most cases the accuracy shown on the display claims 12 feet or less and in some cases 9 feet. I turned on track and walked up the side of my house and back. The resolution was fine enough that one could see the walk up and the walk back on the track. I did all of this without using the manual by looking at the home page and choosing the satellite and tracks icons. Not bad for a 1st time GPS user.
After playing with the unit for a bit I plugged an old 4Gb SDHC card I had laying around into my PC. The PN-60 comes with DVD's with Topo maps for Canada, the US and Mexico. I inserted the SE US disk and loaded OK and TX into the PN-60. It didn't take an hour, it didn't take 45 minutes, 30 minutes or even 15. It took 12 minutes to load a class 2 SDHC memory card up. Keep in mind that class 2 is about as slow as it goes when it comes to SD speed. With a class 4 or 6 it would have taken even less time. One note: I did read the instructions for the process prior to loading the maps onto the SD and followed the advice to load the maps onto the SD by plugging it straight into my PC rather than installing it in the PN-60 1st. After installing the SD into the unit the maps were accessible and usable. Surprisingly the supplied topo maps include contour lines, different colors for varying terrain and even showed businesses in my local area as points of interest.
Next I installed the Topo 9 software without issue. The PC I use has Windows 7 Home Premium, 4Gb Ram and a 560Gb HD. It took about 20 minutes to install. Not typical but understandable considering the amount of raw map data that is installed with it.
I opened up the software after installation expecting the worst. NOT! Topo 9's highly graphical interface is a very intuitive package to use and I dove in and was creating routes, checking the accuracy of route calculations, loading geocache .loc files into it within just a few minutes. Next I decided to sync Topo 9 with the PN-60 and tried to load some geocaches and preplanned routes to the GPS from Topo 9. the Sync tool worked quickly to sync up Topo 9 and the GPS perfectly and I didn't have to read the docs to do it - it really is an intuitive process for anyone familiar with windows. NOTE: I did read the Topo 9 docs about sync later. I found out that the Sync tool is more powerful than I had imagined and can be used for more than just syncing up Topo 9 projects with your GPS.
After doing that I used the $40 voucher for downloading maps off of Delorme's map site that is part of the package to grab some USGS Topo maps for an area around a local lake I frequent. Went without a hitch. They showed up on the topo 9 maps and looked great. Did another sync and they were available for view on the GPS. Unfortunately with just a 2.2" screen they didn't add much to the usefullness so I turned them off on the GPS. Tried getting some satellite imagery with similar results. (NOTE: you can't get the best aerial and satellite imagery without subscribing to the Delorme map service - since those go down to as little as 30cm resolution I imagine they would look just fine on the GPS screen).
Now for the only gotcha I've found so far. Topo 9 uses project files. When I was done doing the above I closed the software without saving the project. Next time I loaded up the USGS map view of the lake area was gone. Still available but I had to go and manually turn 'em back on. Routes were still available but I had to turn them back on along with the geocaches. So I saved the project after turning everything back on the way I wanted to see it and voila - next time everything was as expected. Projects, will I believe, turn out to be the heart of the software and a very powerful tool for anyone that travels extensively and uses a GPS to do it.
Anyway long story short - the unit performs as advertised. The software is intuitive and the documentation for both the GPS unit and the Software (seperate PDF's) is very complete.
The PN-60 provides a huge amount of value for the price and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a GPS unit to be primarily used as a geocaching, hiking and camping tool.
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