GPSMAP 76 POI Database:
- If MapSource data
is loaded to this GPS unit, the factory preloaded
POI database will be erased.
- Please download
and install this
POI Database file to recover the
original
POI database.
- If MapSource data
is currently loaded to the device, it will be
erased and replaced with this POI database.
Changes made from version
3.90 to 4.00:
- Improved WAAS
search and selection process to be smarter in
its handling of multiple SBAS service providers,
overlapping service volumes, and exceptional
conditions.
Changes made from
version 3.80 to 3.90:
- Fixed shutoff
problem with certain European tides.
Changes made from
version 3.70 to 3.80:
- Corrected problem
with European tides.
Changes made from
version 3.60 to 3.70:
- Improved
non-volatile memory storage of WAAS/EGNOS
ionospheric mask corrections.
- Reduced delays in
acquiring a position when using differential
GPS.
- Added Canadian
tide support.
Changes made from
version 3.50 to 3.60:
- French translation
update.
Changes made from
version 3.41 to 3.50:
- Added updated
support for RCV_CPO data.
- Fixed problem with
changing elevation units. Users are now able to
change to meters without having to restart the
unit.
- Improved
WAAS/EGNOS satellite selection algorithm to
select the satellite with the most beneficial
corrections given the unit's current position. A
unit will not use a WAAS/EGNOS satellite if the
unit's current position is outside of a given
WAAS/EGNOS satellite's service volume.
- Added new
'Distance and Speed' unit. The new unit is
'Nautical (nm, kt, m)'. The old 'Nautical' is
now 'Nautical (nm, kt, ft)'. The new unit is the
same as the old, except it shows the small
measurements in meters instead of feet.
- New French
translations.
Changes made from
version 3.40 to 3.41:
- Added tide support
for European and Australian tides version 5.0.
- Added support for
RCV_CPO data.
Changes made from
version 3.30 to 3.40:
- Change to support
manufacturing process. No noticeable change to
user.
Changes made from
version 3.20 to 3.30:
- Corrected problem
that could prevent pages from being displayed
correctly when attempting to average the
location of a waypoint saved from a point of
interest or when projecting new waypoints from a
point of interest.
Changes made from
version 3.10 to 3.20:
- Restored
transmission of GSV NMEA sentences in full for
every two-second update.
- Corrected display
of available route waypoints on the Route Setup
Map page.
Changes made from
version 2.09 to 3.10:
- Increased the
active track log to 10,000 points.
- Increased each
saved track log to 750 points.
- Increased user
waypoints to 1,000 waypoints.
- Improved various
translations.
- Added EOV
Hungarian and South African grid support.
- Added
functionality to start, stop, or resume
navigation from the Route Detail page's option
menu.
Changes made from
version 2.08 to 2.09:
- Eliminated
possible shutoffs when repeatedly finding Cities
or Points of Interest.
- Eliminated
possibly storing bad data when starting a Goto,
which would cause the unit to shut off and would
prevent the unit from turning on again.
- Eliminated
possible lockups when deleting all user
waypoints.
- Eliminated
possible shutoffs and lockups when selecting a
street for finding addresses or intersections
using newer maps.
- Allowed entering
and finding addresses with alpha-numeric street
numbers when supported by the map data.
- Added a Setup
Routes item to the Routes main menu page which
allows setting the route waypoint transitions to
Manual. When set to Manual, routes will
transition to the next waypoint only when
instructed to do so by the user.
- Added a Setup NMEA
output item to the Interface setup page menu
when the Serial Data Format is set to NMEA. This
allows setting the following for the NMEA
output: the precision of the minutes field for
lat/lon, the waypoint identifier format, and
which groups of sentences to transmit. These
settings allow compatibility with a wider range
of NMEA-driven products including some older
marine autopilots.
- Added receiving
water depth through DBT NMEA input sentence.
- Added Location
(both chosen & default formats) as choices for
Medium and Large configurable fields.
- Added geocaching
user waypoint symbols.
- Added more marine
user waypoint symbols.
- Added new Point of
Interest types when supported by the map data.
- Allowed finding
duplicately-named cities by name across multiple
maps of the same type if supported by the map
data.
- Used depth (if it
is being received through NMEA) when marking a
waypoint.
- Used depth (if it
is being received through NMEA) and altitude
when creating the MOB waypoint.
- Display
approaching waypoint messages longer when based
on distance.
- Reset the Arrival
alarm when the Arrival alarm distance is
changed.
- Prevented possible
corruption of time in GARMIN output format.
- Output correct
week number in NMEA output format when operating
through the end of a week.
- Added Croatian map
datum.
- Changed Taiwan
grid title from T67 to TM2.
- Removed displaying
the hotel & motel reservation number when
reviewing exit services.
- Changed threshold
so that values greater than 9999 meters are
displayed as kilometers. Previously this
threshold was 999 meters.
- Improved
appearance of BlueChart submerged pipes and
cables.
- Added Hungarian
language.
- Always display
both street name and number when displaying
addresses.
- Improved the
accuracy of the estimated accuracy value.
- Correctly turn
Anchor Drag and Off Course alarms on and off on
Alarms setup page.
- Correctly display
the Mode after restoring defaults on the General
setup page.
- Correctly display
the map page when rapidly changing pages.
- Allowed the
backlight to be turned on while a confirmation
page is being displayed.
Changes made from
version 2.07 to 2.08:
- Retain waypoint
comments between power cycles.
- Changed the anchor
drag alarm to sound every time the boat moves
outside the anchor area.
- Changed the anchor
drag alarm setting distance units from miles to
feet.
- Display
approaching waypoint messages longer when based
on distance.
- Eliminated
possible lockups when saving a track back
through midnight or noon.
- Improved WAAS
performance after long periods of shading for
both WAAS and GPS satellites.
- Improved WAAS
performance when GEO ephemeris is available but
almanac has not yet been collected.
Changes made from
version 2.05 to 2.07:
- Eliminated lockups
at certain locations.
- Added waypoint
comments. (When new waypoints are created, the
comment will initially contain the date and time
the waypoint was created.)
- Added Project
Location option for waypoints.
- Added Append To
Route option for waypoints to allow appending of
waypoints to new and existing routes.
- Added Toggling
between displaying chosen & default location
formats on the GPS info page when a cursor key
is pressed.
- Added new Swedish
RT 90 location format.
- Added control of
marine services to the Marine tab of the map
setup.
- Increased the
breadth of waypoint symbols that can be received
through the serial port.
- Improved
responsiveness of positioning in shaded
conditions.
- Added display of
the north reference source to bearing fields.
- Properly show
times for tide stations with UTC offsets greater
than +/- 9 hours.
- Always show street
number and street name in correct order based on
map data.
- Allowed for all 4
digits of mils to be shown on the map feature
review pages.
- Re-sort waypoint
symbol selection list after changing the
language.
- Changed
confirmation box buttons on proximity page from
OK & Cancel to Yes & No.
- Increased the
number of copyrights that can be displayed from
4 to 5.
- Correctly get all
copyrights strings from map data.
- Made the size of
the degree symbol consistent between degree
symbols with north reference indication (e.g.
deg true, deg mag) and those without.
- Changed 'Map
Location' text to 'Map Pointer'.
- Map datums
automatically associated with location formats
can no longer be changed.
- Changed Swedish
and RT 90 location formats to have the northing
on top and easting below and to use 'X' and 'Y'
to indicate northing and easting instead of 'N'
and 'O'.
- Improved the
appearance of the pointer tail.
Changes made from
version 2.04 to 2.05:
- Eliminated
possible lockups when determining next street.
- Eliminated
possible lockups when using WAAS.
- Eliminated
possible lockups when the unit detects low
batteries and attempts to shut off.
- Eliminated
possible shutoffs when computing moon rise and
set times for extreme latitudes.
- Eliminated
repeated resetting of reference when measuring
distance after the menu was exited with the ESC
key.
- Eliminated
occasional blanks at the end of lists when
finding Points of Interest by name.
- Transfer more
points to saved tracks when saving short track
logs.
- Added support for
displaying BlueChart data on the map.
- Changed display of
distances to have 2 digits to the right of the
decimal point.
- Added support to
display directions in mils.
- Changed anchor
drag alarm tone to sound until the message is
cleared by the user.
- Always display
airports when available in map data.
- Correctly indicate
the services present at Fishing Hotspot
facilities.
- Added support for
Addresses and intersections to have more than
one city associated with them when finding.
- Added support for
diacritic characters in map data.
- Added the ability
to find streets by each word in the name when
supported by the map data.
- Consistently show
either exit or cross road data regardless of the
direction of travel on a road.
- Display
'inaccurate result' message if there is an error
calculating a tide.
- Completely removed
transmission of Sonar sentence from NMEA output.
- Used user-entered
magnetic variation if north reference is set to
user when transmitting RMC and BOD NMEA sentenc
- Added indication
of datum used by transmitting PGRMM NMEA
sentence.
- Smoothed
positioning when operating in areas of heavy
shading when user has not entered an altitude.
- Changed name of
existing Hu-Tzu-Shan datum to Taiwan.
- Added a new datum
named Hu-Tzu-Shan which conforms to the
published Taiwan map datum definition.
- Improved the
initial accuracy estimate.
Changes made from
version 2.03 to 2.04:
- Correctly
determine the date the first time satellites are
acquired after the unit has been stored without
batteries.
- Improved the name
displayed for the preloaded Marine POI data on
the Select Map menu.
Changes made from
version 2.02 to 2.03:
- Correctly
determined when and where the map should be
drawn.
- Ensured the maps
are drawn after transferring maps from MapSource
to the unit, and when displaying the map page
the first time after turning the unit on.
- Only displayed
maps that were not completely covered by other
maps.
- If only one map
contained the points being searched for, used it
even if not selected by the user.
- Improved a few
Swedish translations.
Changes made from
version 2.01 to 2.02:
- Prevented
scrambled screens when pressing the NAV key
twice.
- Prevented default
Loran TD setup from being invalid.
- Allowed panning on
map in all 8 directions on all units.
- Reported actual
available size for maps to MapSource.
- Displayed tide
station times using the daylight saving time
setting.
- Corrected display
of tides for stations that have a tide height
bias.
- Stored saved track
point locations so that they don't move when
being transferred back and forth between the
unit and a PC.
- Increased
elevation display from 4 to 5 digits and
prevented it from switching to kilofeet or
kilometers.
- Remembered
highlight position in list when reviewing
waypoints on the route page.
- Computed the area
enclosed by a saved track.
- Allowed finding
Manmade Places, Water Features, and Land
Features Points of Interest when available in
map data.
- Controlled bearing
line separately from other navigation lines in
map setup.
- Displayed GPS
status on Pointer page and Highway page when not
navigating.
- Displayed services
available at Fishing Hot Spots facilities.
- Displayed TracBack
points as 'BEGIN, TURN 1, TURN 2...END' instead
of 'TURN, TURN...'.
- Reduced
occurrences and improved handling of 'None
Found' messages when finding points.
- Stored map setup
changes when exiting map setup instead of when
turning unit off.
- Added highlight
timeout when panning on maps.
- Stored all the
track log points specified when saving a track.
- Removed
transmitting Sonar information on NMEA output.