sweet addiction
Petty Officer 1st Class
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Re: Lake GPS ???
I have the same unit. I downloaded the inland lake maps($99) for my region directly from Garmin onto a SD card which I put in my NUVI. It does not give you the same detailed info that a chart plotter does, but it is still nice to have.I have a Garmin Nuvi 265 that I bought primarily for road use. I can switch mine to "off-road" use and do use it on the lake (as well as in the airplane a little bit - not for NAV). On the lake, I can mark the places I want to get to and even put in waypoints but I don't get NAV data (depth, channel markers, etc.). I wouldn't wanna' do big water this way, but for the typical stuff I do on our lakes and rivers it works.
Garmin does have some lake maps that I think you can download for the Nuvi, but I haven't bought them to try out.