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>I am heading to Anguilla tommorrow. 8 miles off the coast of St Martin.
> I have a Garmin 176c with the standard info it came with. I moslty use
> it on the water here on Long Island N.Y. with the Blue Chart chip. I
> have added U.S. maps to the road chip but not Caribbian Islands.
>
> I realize that if I turn the unit on in Anguilla it will give me my
> coordinates; however: will it at least show that I am on land on an
> island? I don't expect road maps.
>

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> "Bchbound" < Bchboundcrap@optonli
ne.net> wrote in message
> news:MPG. 1cfd5355dbcef0769896
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> Should do - the "European" Vista Atlantic basemap covers the entire world
> with low res coastlines, national borders and major cities. eg in the US I
> see state boundaries and state capitals. But as you say - no roads at all.
>
> David
>
>
>

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> In article < cKSdnTDty_9aMw7fRVny
sw@eclipse.net.uk>,
> davidlee_malvern@don
t.use.this.bit.hotmail.com says...
> No time for that. Besides, This is a once every several years trip. I am
> not spending money on software for this rare occasion.
>
> I just want to know what I will see with what it came with.
>
> Thanks

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> You mean you have no time to read what we bloody well post? I
> live in Europe and so I can't comment about your Americas basemaps
> but what I told you is what we get on the basemap supplied with our
> "Atlantic" GPS units. I have no reason to expect that your out-of
> -area coverage will be any different. However if you don't have
> time to read replies then please don't waste our time by asking
> pointless bleeding questions!

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> David Lee wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> You really are a very insulting person, aren't you, David..? Ok so you're
> annoyed by people not reading before posting, maybe you have a reason to
> be, but there is no need whatsover to jump down people's throats like
> that.
>
> If you don't want to answer them then don't, but please don't be so
> offensive.
>
> Ivor

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And I replied:
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To which the OP responded:
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> No time for that. Besides, This is a once every several years trip. I am
> not spending money on software for this rare occasion.
>
> I just want to know what I will see with what it came with.

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> Ivor Jones wrote...
>
> Ivor
> You are every bit as bad as the OP! Try reading the bits of the thread
> that
> you snipped and you will find that I tried to answer the question to the
> best of my knowledge.
>
> The question was:
>
>
> And I replied:
>
>
> To which the OP responded:
>
>
> I told him that my Garmin Atlantic basemap was showing exactly what he
> wanted to see outside of its area of detailed coverage and so he could
> expect the same from his own, presumably Americas Highways basemap. His
> response seems to indicate that he didn't have the common decency to read
> and understand my reply because he didn't feel he had the time to be
> bothered with it. I think my flame was more than justified. He could
> have
> answered his own question in a couple of minutes anyway by panning his GPS
> map display to the area that he was interested in.
>
> David