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The GPSMAP 172C is a fixed-mounted Marine GPS that offers a brilliant color LCD screen that can easily be read in bright sunlight, and comes packed with robust features, and a very user-friendly, well organized interface in a compact and very reasonably priced console. Built-in worldwide marine basemap is standard on The GPSMAP 172C and this unit is also compatible with MapSource BlueChart offshore marine cartography, which features detailed depth contours, mapping of wrecks, inter-tidal zones and many other points that may be of interest when boating. MapSource BlueChart is considered to serve up the most reliable offshore cartography around and easily integrates with a wide range of other Garmin products. Additionally The GPSMAP 172C is also compatible with MapSource Recreational Lakes with Fishing Hot Spots, which offer available marinas, pre-charted fishing areas, boat ramps and hazards for hundreds of the most popular lakes. Expandability: The GPSMAP 172C unit comes with a convenient expansion slot on the front that can be used for pre-programmed data cards from Garmin or other third party. Garmin produces pre-programmed data card, which come preloaded with BlueChart maps and also fully loaded with exceptional nautical detail. When you want to make the most of your time on the water The GPSMAP 172C is the perfect tool for you. It will offer much larger area coverage, better features and greater detail for a very reasonable price. Additional Features: o 320 x 320-pixel, 256-color CFTN screen with adjustable CCFL backlight Most helpful customer reviews 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. I knew ahead of time that only about 8% of Minnesota’s 15,000 lakes were represented, and not all 1200 lakes included in the software were shown in great detail. I wasn’t happy about that, but at least I knew about it up front. The most glaring omissions in Inland Lakes is where the map fails to show connections between some lakes in a chain, such as where Lake Calhoun connects with Lake of the Isles via canal in Minneapolis, rivers that connect to lakes but not on the map, such as where the Sauk River connects to Kraus Lake near Cold Spring MN, and rivers that are missing sections on the map where in reality they are contiguous, like the Sauk River again, between Cold Spring and the Mississippi River. If you are exploring inland lakes and rivers with these maps in your GPS, you would likely also need other maps that fill in the gaps in the electronic map. To me, if Garmin is going to charge as much as they do for a map, the lakes and rivers they include should at least be accurate. If I get in trouble in the wilderness while kayaking, an accurate map is a must. At the very least it is expected. Paper maps have less errors. Because of these issues I am thinking of buying a Delorme PN-40 GPS which comes STANDARD with Topo USA including topographic, lake and street maps, and comes with a $100 credit toward their USGS Quad maps, aerial and satellite maps for about the same cost as my Garmin Vista HCx and one set of flawed optional maps. That way if one map isn’t 100% accurate, I can check another one to fill in the blanks, and I’m quite sure that between Delorme’s standard topographic and lake maps, I’ll be able to find more than 1200 lakes in Minnesota. I’ll have an even better chance of finding those hidden lakes with USGS Quad, aerial and satellite maps at my fingertips. So in summation, I’ve found Garmin’s Inland Lakes maps to be useful, but it’s not as precise as I need it to be. That’s too bad, because I like my Garmin Vista HCx GPS. Yet if I’d known about the flaws I found ahead of time, I never would have bought the maps or the GPS from Garmin. I’m still using the two for now, but I’ll be checking Google Maps or Google Earth first, before I leave on a trip. 15 of 17 people found the following review helpful. The first concern is that not all lakes are represented on the CD. It’s best to check the Garmin site to see if your lakes are included. The other concern is that the US Inland Lakes data is so big, that it does not fit on one 512Meg data card… Even with these two concerns, I’d do it again in a heartbeat. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. |
Am I the only one that thinks Inland Lakes is flawed?
Great Product
Many errors in Central New York