With the eTrex
Legend, Garmin has loaded a full basemap of North and South America into one
small unit. The Legend is also designed to provide precise GPS positioning using
correction data obtained from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). This
product will provide position accuracy to less than three meters when receiving
WAAS corrections.
The basemap contains lakes, rivers, cities, interstates, national and state
highways, railroads and coastlines. The eTrex Legend is also equipped with
additional memory totaling eight megabytes. The added memory allows the eTrex
Legend to accept downloaded map data from Garmin's entire line of MapSource
CD-ROMs, including Fishing Hot Spots. The eTrex Legend comes in a
brightly-colored translucent blue case that really makes the unit stand out. New
to the product design, Garmin will include marine aids to navigation in addition
to the basemap. These navigational aids will be pre-loaded into each unit from
the factory.
