Get in Gear: Garmin Outdoor GPS

Published: August 21, 2007, 4:30 pm

Tags: garmin, get in gear, gps, hand held gps, map

The next time you venture outside, either in hiking boots, on a bike, in a car, or in sneakers, you're chances of getting lost will be slim to none with the Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx. GPS stands for Global Position System, and this amazing device uses satellite reception to figure out where you are and how to get where you're going. When you purchase this hand-held GPS, you choose from 3 different areas: Americas, Atlantic or Pacific. It comes with built in basic maps of those areas including major cities, some smaller cities and towns, oceans, rivers, and lakes, major interstates and highways, state and international borders, and major airports. It comes with a blank 64 MB card so you can store extra maps from the optional MapSource mapping software. Just connect to your computer with the USB cable, and you can load map data or transfer routes and waypoints (these are points on a map that you follow to help you get to your destination). You can even purchase microSD cards that are

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