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Marine GPS Systems are Handy

Marine GPS systems are often combined with land navigation systems. Garmin offers the features with its 378C and 478C models that offer both functions in one portable device. In your boat, the GPS unit becomes a 256-color chart plotter that automatically derives course information for you from a built-in map augmented by Garmin's own marine cartography. Either model accepts data from card inputs containing Garmin MapSource offshore details and information regarding the best spots for fishing. In your car, the GPS system turns into a road and street navigator, giving you turn-by-turn or voice guidance to locate addresses you are searching for.

Marine GPS systems are typically portable and handheld. They have information specific to marine needs, such as nautical navigation aids (lights, buoys, tide data, day beacons, and sound signals). With a marine GPS system utilizing WAAS (wide area augmentation system) technology, the mechanisms will be able to pinpoint your location even more minutely than before. It can increase the accuracy of your reporting location to within three meters. Marine GPS systems also have support data cards that include detailed aerial photos of harbors, marinas, and other landmarks that are important to nautical navigation.

The Magellan Meridian GPS receiver is PC-compatible and coordinates with up to 12 satellites to provide you with the most precise information possible on your location anywhere around the globe. It has a memory card slot for you to utilize either to retrieve data for the unit's use or to save waypoint and route information for a later time. The Meridian model is compatible and well-suited to the Magellan MapSend software. It is ruggedly built and protected from the elements with a waterproof rubber coating. It has seven navigator screens to hold multiple types of information. It can be handheld or mounted to your vehicle.

Symbian software brings navigational capability to your mobile phone. The need for GPS systems and software capable of providing GPS services is ever-growing and ever-expanding into more markets and more products.

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