Garmin GPSMAP 396 User Manual

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Map Orientation

There are three map orientation options: North Up orients the map

like a paper map, Track Up orients the map in the direction of travel,

and Course Up orients the map in the direction of the destination.

When using Track Up or Course Up, the North arrow indicates the

orientation. To change the map orientation, press pagE to open the

Map Page. Press MEnU. Select Set up Map, and press EntEr.

Refer to

page 33

for information.

Selecting Map Ranges

The Map Page has 28 available range scales from 20 ft to 800 nm

(20 ft to 800 mi or 5 m to 1200 km). The map range is controlled by

the in and oUt keys, with the current range shown at the bottom

right of the data window.

notE: The range value represents the distance between the

ends of the range bar (

).

To select a map zoom range (zoom in and out):

Press the

OUT key to zoom out.

Press the

IN key to zoom in.

The system uses optional MapSource City Navigator for street level

mapping data. Detailed marine chart coverage is available through

the use of the BlueChart, or MapSource software.


Map coverage conforms to the following conditions:

Cartography is shown when the selected zoom range is

covered by the MapSource data loaded onto a data card.
When the selected zoom range is covered by both the internal

basemap and data card map information, the cartography with

the best resolution is shown.
When the selected zoom range exceeds the resolution of the

data in use, “overzoom” appears below the map range.

No addtonal data avalable

When optional City Select map data is used, “detail map”

appears below the map range.

Using the optional City Navigator maps.

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