Garmin StreetPilot III

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Imagine never being lost while driving. Garmin makes it possible. Meet the Street Pilot III - the ultimate traveling companion and guide. Create a route and then put your mind on cruise as you follow clear, accurate, voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions to safely reach your destination.

The simple, intuitive menus of the Street Pilot III offer access to the shortest and fastest routes, directions, and estimated arrival time of your intended destination. Automated voice prompts alert you to upcoming turns, course deviation, and distance to final destination. At the touch of a button, view the locations of all the nearest highway exits, gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, hospitals, and rest areas on a full-color L CD.

The StreetPilot III comes with MapSource City Navigator CD-Rom and everything you need to download street-level mapsets from your PC. Then, just place the portable system on the dash of any vehicle, and enjoy stress-free driving and peace of mind—without any costly service charges or hook-up fees.

Specifications

Plotter/Moving Map Features:

• Basemap: Built-in routable Americas Autoroute or Atlantic Autoroute basemap with oceans, lakes, rivers, airports, cities, interstates or major motorways, principal and major thoroughfares, political boundaries, federal interstate highway exit information for services such as food, lodging and truck, RV and automotive service stations in the US only.

• CD-ROM: MapSource City Navigator CD-ROM (U.S. & Canadian coverage) and a 128MB data card are included with the Americas StreetPilot III, and European City Navigator and a 128MB data card are included with the Atlantic StreetPilot III, which gives you access to street-level detail, addresses, and business listings for major metropolitan areas. Internet access is recommended. Compatible with most Garmin MapSource™ products. Garmin data card required.

• Map Scale: Screen-width scale 900 feet to 6,100 miles

Navigation Features:

• Routes: Automatically calculated with turn-by-turn instructions. Up to 50 stored. Using built-in basemap, routes include interstates, highways and major thoroughfares. With detailed data from CD-ROM, routes include residential street-level detail within metropolitan areas.

• Voice: Navigation instructions and warnings

• Waypoints: 500 with name and graphic symbol

• Track log: 2000 track log points

• Trip computer: Resettable odometer, timers, average and maximum speeds

GPS Performance:

• Receiver: Differential-ready 12 parallel channel GPS receiver continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites to compute and update your position

• Acquisition times:

Warm: Approximately 15 seconds

Cold: Approximately 45 seconds

AutoLocate™: Approximately 5 minutes

• Update rate: 1/second, continuous

• GPS accuracy:

Position: < 15 meters, 95% typical*

Velocity: 0.05 meter/sec steady state

• DGPS accuracy:

Position: 3-5 meters, 95% typical

Velocity: 0.05 meter/sec steady state

• Dynamics: 6g's

• Interfaces: RS232 with NMEA 0183

• Antenna: Detachable with standard BNC-type connector

Physical:

• Size: 3.2"H x 6.8"W x 2.6"D (8.0 x 17.3 x 6.5 cm)

• Weight: 1.4 pounds (635 g)

• Display: 3.4"W x 1.8"H (8.6 x 4.5 cm) (305 x 160 pixels), high-contrast, 16-color LCD with backlighting

• Case: Rugged; fully gasketed

• Temperature range: 5°F to 158°F (–15°C to 70°C)

• Data storage: Indefinite; no memory battery required

• Map storage: Data cards store detailed map data

Power:

• Source: 6 AA batteries or 12-volt adapter cable

• Battery life: 2–20 hours based on backlight setting