and more than 60,000 navigation aids with 10,000 wrecks and obstructions in U.S. coastal and Great Lakes' waters.

MapCreate custom maps include massive amounts of information not found in the background map. MapCreate contains: Points of Interest database, all the minor roads and streets, all the landmark features (such as summits, schools, radio towers, etc.); more rivers, streams, smaller lakes and ponds and their names.

What's more important is the large-scale map detail that allows your GPS unit to show a higher level of position accuracy. For example, the background map will show you the general outline and approximate shape of a coastline or water body, but the higher detail in MapCreate shows the shoreline completely and accurately. Many smaller islands would not be included in the background map, but are in MapCreate.

Interstate

Major Street

Cursor line

POI Pop-up,

 

 

 

with position,

Minor

 

 

distance and

Streets

 

 

bearing data

POI

 

 

 

Marker

 

 

 

School POI

 

 

 

 

Zoom Range

Restaurant

 

POI

 

 

 

When the map is zoomed out far enough, most POIs appear as square dots (left). As you zoom in closer, the symbols become readable icons. In the 0.6-mile zoom example (right), the cursor has selected the Cupps Café POI, which triggers a pop-up box with the POI name. This pop-up box works on POIs at any zoom range.

Tip:

In some urban areas, businesses are so close to one another their POI icons crowd each other on the screen. In the preceding figure, you can see a jumbled pile of POIs along Highway 34. You can reduce screen clutter and make streets and other map features easier to see by turning off the display of undesired POIs. (To see how, check out the Map Detail Category section, page 141.)

The Map Page has its own menu, which is used for several functions and for setting various options. To access the Map Page Menu, from the Map Page, press MENU.

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