Garmin MapSource DVD for Garmin GPS Units, US Inland Lakes (010-10774-00)

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Features:

Comprehensive freshwater lake coverage of the entire continental United States

High-definition shoreline and bathymetric detail

Searchable by both lakes and cities

Includes vital information on interstates, highways and roads

Inland Lakes cartography makes it easy and convenient to load data to your compatible Garmin unit

Product Description

You'll have a great day on the water in store for you, when you use our U.S. Inland Lakes maps.

From small local lakes to large ones, this software contains highly detailed data for lakes in the continental United States. With exceptional detail - including contour lines on most inland lakes, high-definition shoreline, river and creek channels, boat ramps, campgrounds, rivers, streams, tide prediction stations, U.S. Coast Guard aids to navigation, wrecks and obstructions, and general road data - we've packed a lot of information into our all-inclusive DVD or 5 preprogrammed cards.

Inland Lakes cartography is available in three different formats making it easy and convenient to load data to your compatible Garmin GPS: MapSource® DVD with coverage of the entire continental U.S., preprogrammed Garmin data cards, and preprogrammed microSD cards.

Features include:

Comprehensive freshwater lake coverage of the entire continental United States
Over 5300 lakes with high definition shoreline and bathymetric detail
Searchable lakes and cities
Interstates, highways and general road coverage

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Am I the only one that thinks Inland Lakes is flawed?

Comment:

I bought this software for my Garmin Etrex Vista HCx GPS mainly for use while kayaking in Minnesota and Wisconsin. After checking the maps of lakes that are among the more fully detailed, however, I find them not up to par for my mapping needs, and I don't have the option of using another company's map program with my Garmin GPS since the format is proprietary.

I knew ahead of time that only about 8% of Minnesota's 15,000 lakes were represented, and not all 1200 lakes included in the software were shown in great detail. I wasn't happy about that, but at least I knew about it up front.

The most glaring omissions in Inland Lakes is where the map fails to show connections between some lakes in a chain, such as where Lake Calhoun connects with Lake of the Isles via canal in Minneapolis, rivers that connect to lakes but not on the map, such as where the Sauk River connects to Kraus Lake near Cold Spring MN, and rivers that are missing sections on the map where in reality they are contiguous, like the Sauk River again, between Cold Spring and the Mississippi River. If you are exploring inland lakes and rivers with these maps in your GPS, you would likely also need other maps that fill in the gaps in the electronic map. To me, if Garmin is going to charge as much as they do for a map, the lakes and rivers they include should at least be accurate. If I get in trouble in the wilderness while kayaking, an accurate map is a must. At the very least it is expected. Paper maps have less errors.

Because of these issues I am thinking of buying a Delorme PN-20 GPS which comes STANDARD with Topo USA including topographic, lake and street maps, and comes with a $100 credit toward their USGS Quad maps, aerial and satellite maps for about the same cost as my Garmin Vista HCx and one set of flawed optional maps. That way if one map isn't 100% accurate, I can check another one to fill in the blanks, and I'm quite sure that between Delorme's standard topographic and lake maps, I'll be able to find more than 1200 lakes in Minnesota. I'll have an even better chance of finding those hidden lakes with USGS Quad, aerial and satellite maps at my fingertips.

So in summation, I've found Garmin's Inland Lakes maps to be useful, but it's not as precise as I need it to be. That's too bad, because I like my Garmin Vista HCx GPS. Yet if I'd known about the flaws I found ahead of time, I never would have bought the maps or the GPS from Garmin. I'm still using the two for now, but I'll be checking Google Maps or Google Earth first, before I leave on a trip.

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Summary:

Great product but they charge to much for it.

Comment:

The company was great, offering the brand name product at a competitive price and delivering the product in a timely fashion. I am hoping that competition decreases the cost of these software products. At about $100+ per program, it is almost cheaper to use a navigator that comes with your cellphone for city and purchase a product for marine use that is installed in the boat rather trying to buy software to load that is sometimes incomplete and may need updating in the near future.

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Summary: excelent software
Comment: If you are interested in the details roads for your GPS along with rivers, lakes & streams this is the software to get. Best price also.

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Summary: Missing document
Comment: I did not get the unlocking code. Please advise. Thank you. Alex Carvajal

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Great Product

Comment:

I've got a Garmin 478 w/ all the coast charts included. US Inland Lakes completes the charts for all US and coastal waters. It's a great product with much detail.

The first concern is that not all lakes are represented on the CD. It's best to check the Garmin site to see if your lakes are included.

The other concern is that the US Inland Lakes data is so big, that it does not fit on one 512Meg data card...

Even with these two concerns, I'd do it again in a heartbeat.