Can I get my GPS to work on the water?

[scooper77515]

I have a TomTom One, and it works great on the highways, but when I put it on the boat, it keeps trying to get me back to the roads.

Then if I mark the boat ramp, and ask later to direct me back there, it says "No Route Available" because I cannot find roads to get onto.

Is there a way I can set it so it will just point in the direction of the ramp?

I want to use it like if I was out in the woods...tell it where I want to go and have it point me back, not get onto the closest highway and drive back to camp...

 

[nswillin]

I don't think so. I have the sprint navigation on my phone, it has a tools menu that will show a compass and mph, I have used that before to tell which way I am going and how fast. Would suck if it got dropped though. They do make separate gps units for lakes though.

 

[robin savell lloyd]

I have the cheap hand held from walmart $100.00 It does every thing I bought it for hunting and fishing. It will put me back within 3 feet of where ever I have been and that is all I care about but it allso does a hole lot more compass, mph and so on. the maps are not 100 percent accurate but they do cover us and canada. :cheers:

 

[scooper77515]

Mine was a cheap 100 unit, same one walmart sells.

I wonder if I can change a setting and make it just point for me...

It works great for everything else. In fact, I use it in my Maverick for a speedometer (rear gears, tires, etc are all changed out, so speedo is no longer accurate).

 

[robin savell lloyd]

Mine is different than yours I have a explorist 200 gps. :cheers:

 

[unclejay]

Turn Off Routing

There is a difference between setting a waypoint ( a place to go to) and actually being routed there. Not sure sure about Tom Tom but most GPS units dont start routing unless you tell them to.

When you set a waypoint (either by typing in its lat-long or marking it when there) you dont need to route to it, just steer toward it. it will show on the map display.