Garmin GPSmap 478 GPS Receiver by Garmin
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Digital camera reviews of Garmin GPSmap 478 GPS Receiver
Digital camera Review: Cant beat Garmin
Summary: 5 Stars
Does everything it claims to do and does it well, on both land and sea. Great battery life and good sensitivity and satellite reception.Digital camera Review: Download to Google Earth and watch your tracks.
Summary: 5 Stars
Connect your 478 to your computer via the USB cable. Open Google Earth and click on "tools" then click on "gps", select "garmin" then click on "import". Look in you Google Earth screen and go to "Places" and select one of your "active log" then click on the + sign to get to "path", highlight "path" and then click on the "play tour" button. You can speed up the fast forward button or hit pause and zoom out.
Pretty cool.
Digital camera Review: Easy to Use
Summary: 5 Stars
Like previous Garmin products we have used the 478 GPS receiver is easy to use. Keep the directions handy to switch between "street and marine" use. Bought the unit for a marine chartplotter backup but now use it for street navigation as well.Digital camera Review: GPS 478
Summary: 4 Stars
As of today I really have yet to use this item as it is for a boat GPS system, If it works like it does in simulate mode i will be very happy. I will re-rate this item after some use.Digital camera Review: Garmin 478
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent portable chartplotter. Picks up GPS signal quickly. Screen is very readable even in bright sunlight (we use it on the flybridge quite often). Interface (once you've used any Garmin device) is easy and intuitive. It's limitations are, in my view, strictly a function of its size (the screen) and available real-estate (e.g. limited "buttons" for entering waypoints).
This is an ideal device as a back-up to our Ramyarine E-120 -- we feel safer with the Garmin on board -- or to take with you in rental cars or on bareboat charters. Relative to only a year ago, the pre-loading of all US coastal charts and road maps is a real bargain (I actually bought the device although I alread own a 376C because it was cheaper to buy the whole new 478 than three bluechart chart regions for the 376C!Garmin GPSMap 478 GPS Navigator and Chartplotter).
Bravo Garmin!
Douglas