Odwolda Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Are there any GPSr's that have river basemaps? I don't mind if I have to buy the software, but it would be handy to have a GPS that could navigate me through the rivers. The etrex Legend looked like it suited my needs but I want your guys' opinions. And I need it to cover big and small rivers, not just he major rivers. Thanks for any help. PS. Keep it cheap please! Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Both Garmin and Magellan offer topo maps to load into the GPS. Those maps have most bodies of water, although they're nothing more than a black squiggly line, and quite often a bunch of straight lines that only roughly approximates the course of a small river. My Magellan can switch to "marine use" where the water becomes light and the land becomes dark, although on a river with no "width," there's no point. Topo maps are the best you'll get for a "river mapping" GPS. Jamie Quote Link to comment
+Snailman22030 Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Odwolda... I recently bought a Garmin GPSMap76S. The basemap isn't very useful for rivers and such but I also bought the MapSource Roads & Recreation CD (it's just recently been discontinued but can still be found) and it's got rivers and lakes on it. In addition to shoreline information Roads & Rec also has lights & boueys. If you really want to go all out, and I did, you can also get Garmin's MapSource BLUECHART disk. I bought the disk (comes with one unlock code for a "Region"). The vector data charts are very similar to the printed charts that are available. The GPSMap76S shows this info in grayscale but it's still useful. These are a couple of screenshots from the computer: Greenvale Creek from Roads& Recreation: Greenvale Creek from MapSource BlueChart: Quote Link to comment
whichway? Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 for the money..................the i finder by lowrance has a pretty decent basemap of streams/rivers/lakes. the i finder is priced reasonable too. only drawback is the availability of used software for this brand. i had a global100 a few years ago and was amazed at the water detail in the basemap. keep in mind that the ifinder is not "waterproof" but comes with a durable water bag. i now use a garmin map76 but it originally cost more than twice the ifinder and i had to purchase the topo software to get the great water "detail". Quote Link to comment
+JDan150 Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 There is a map viewer on this page that lets you see what the detail is on alot of the garmin maping programs. http://www.garmin.com/cartography/ Top right hand side. Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Have you checked with the local kayaking clubs? This seems like something other kayakers would do as many hikers have done the same with land trails. Quote Link to comment
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