Navman Tracker Land Based

Sorry, its actually a 5100i.

I asked the same question at the Sydney Boat Show.

Navman recently released auto-routing street maps for Australia that run on the iCN630 and PocketPC based GPS 3450.
Obviously the auto-routing will not work but having a moving map on a more robust device would be a good idea.

The answer;
No, the street maps will not load to the marine units
No, Navman have no plans to add this feature or develop a dual function unit

Garmin have the GPSmap 176 (monochrome) and GPSmap 176c (colour) that were originally designed for marine use. They will load either Bluechart (marine) maps or Metroguide (stret) maps.

I would let Navman know your thoughts tho, you never know what might happen in the future.

Here's Navmans reply...and the answer to my question.
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Will,

Thanks for your enquiry into Navman products. The Tracker 5100 will work anywhere as a GPS receiver. There is not however any land based cartography in a format that can be used by Tracker. As the functionality and interface is very different for a street routing type product we have keep them separate and offer a number of solutions for in-car navigation. http://www.navman.com/go/aus/index.html

Best Regards,
Glyn Edwards
Product Manager
Navman Australia
Unit 2 5-13 Parsons Street
PO Box 1659
Rozelle NSW 2039
Ph: +61 (0)2 98188382
Fax: +61 (0)2 98188386
www.navman.com

Brett, err you must have the wrong will......i'm in WA.
Cheers,

If ever there was a way there is a will.............. so they say at Garmin! The Streetpilot 3 also can be used as both a Marine unit and, what it was originally intended for, auto routing. There are a couple of limitations using it as a marine unit, that being, difficulty in determining the shades of blue for shallow and deeper water and that you are limited to 100 "via" points which is similar to waypoints. Remember, though, that Marine units have typicallly 3,000 waypoints, as does the Garmin GPS176 series. The GPS176 series cannot give auto routing, by the way, as it does not accept Mapsource City Navigator. You can type in the house number, street name and suburb/postcode if you want but it will only show you the direction you have to travel as the crow flys.