Reviewed: Lowrance GlobalMap 4900M GPS WAAS Recording Chartplotter with Dual MMC SD Digital Media Memory Card Slots

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Lowrance GlobalMap 4900M GPS WAAS Recording Chartplotter with Dual MMC SD Digital Media Memory Card Slots

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GlobalMap 4900M is a monochrome, exact, versatile, and complete recording chartplotter. GPS+WAAS navigation that is richly equipped and nicely affordable!


Boasting a big seven inch monochrome display, dual MMC/SD digital media card slots secured by a waterproof door, and a host of other priceless features, the Lowrance GlobalMap 4900M GPS+WAAS Receiver and Mapping System helps boaters and drivers take the next step in GPS navigation. Simply pick a destination or map a path via the easy to use keypad, and the GlobalMap automatically establishes the best path and gives you intuitive directions.

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The Lowrance GlobalMap 4900M displays towns, roads, airports, and thousands of other places.

As with the best GPS navigators, the 4900M is greatly correct, with precision twelve parallel channel GPS and WAAS mapping that gets you to inside some meters of your destination despite of if you are on a Great Lakes fishing expedition or a cross country road trip. Each trip is totally customizable, with the capability to map new paths, waypoints, trails, and more. You may also easily recalculate your trip path should you get distracted and lose your way, and thanks to the dual MMC/SD card slots which are protected by a waterproof door the device can save and retrace up to 100 of your beloved plot trails, with up to 10,000 points in each path.

Users may also perform more advanced GPS functions on the GlobalMap 4900M, as well as determining the distance between two separate places, creating and editing brand new routes, and navigating trails and paths backwards. To give users a good mapping foundation, Lowrance included a fitted continental U.S. and Hawaii background map that looks sharp on the 480 x 640 pixel display. The in depth map offers such marine features as more than 60,000 nav aids and 10,000 wrecks/obstructions in coastal and Great Lakes regions, with landlocked extras like interstate exit services also to standard big streets and highways. The GlobalMap is matched with Lowrance's optional MapCreate six custom mapping software required to take pleasure in a full set of searchable land features, as well as landmarks, streets, addresses, and points of interest and a host of plug and play choices, like FreedomMaps, Fishing Hot Spots Elite, LakeMaster Pro Maps, NauticPath USA, and Navionics electronic charts. Each item loads via MMC/SD memory cards, which support up to one GB of mapping memory.

The maps are easier to read than ever thanks to the vivid 16 level grayscale display, which offers excellent, glare free visibility despite of the weather conditions. Users can read the screen on bright, sunny days a serious advantage for mid day ship trips. In the meantime, users with a zest for detail will appreciate the 38 map zoom ranges from 0.02 to 4,000 miles and the 42 graphic icons used to mark special spots. extra features are 1,000 waypoints and 1,000 event markers, ten user selectable background languages, and a fitted backup memory for storing your GPS data and settings. Technology minded users can make the GlobalMap more versatile by adding such navigational extras as NMEA2000 sensors, fuel monitoring equipment, or a radar dome.

The sealed, waterproof GlobalMap 4900M, which is suited for saltwater use, measures 9.6 by 7.3 by 3.7 inches W x H x D and is usually powered by a 12 volt DC source, like a car battery. It comes with a gimbal bracket for dash installation, with all the needed cables for battery connection and a face cover that guards the device when idle. As with all Lowrance GPS receivers, the item is supported by a one year warranty.


What's in the Box
GlobalMap 4900M display, GPS module with external antenna and receiver, 25 foot Y adapter extension cable, power wiring, gimbal bracket for dash installation, protecting face cover, user's manual.



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