Garmin GPS 12XL Owner's Manual & Reference

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Map PageThe Map Page shows your position and surround-ings, and provides you with a target cursor that letsyou pan ahead to nearby waypoints, determine the dis-tance and bearing to a map position, and mark newwaypoints while you navigate. The Map Page is brokendown into two sections: control fields and map section.The zoom function, panning control, and configu-ration fields are located at the top of the screen. Thezoom function uses 18 selectable zoom ranges from 0.2to 500 miles, or 0.3 to 800 km. (Using the zoom, pan-ning, and configure fields will be addressed in the nextsection.)The map portion of the page displays your presentposition as a diamond icon, with your track and/orroute displayed as a solid line. Nearby waypoints arerepresented using symbols, with the waypoint namealso listed. You may select which of these features areshown through the map options pages (see pgs. 37-39for more information).The four corners of the Map Page are used to dis-play various navigation data: the bearing and distanceto a destination waypoint and your current track andspeed over the ground. The two fields at the top cor-ners of the map show your bearing and distance to oneof three selectable destinations: an active destinationwaypoint, a highlighted on-screen waypoint, or thepanning target crosshair. If you are not navigating to awaypoint or using the panning function, the top datafields will not be displayed. Your current track andspeed are shown at the bottom corners of the display.35Note: The map scale rep-resents the distance fromthe top to the bottom ofthe Map Page. For exam-ple, when viewing the 10mile scale, the distancerepresented between thetop of the screen and bot-tom is 10 miles.REFERENCEMap PageThe four corners of theMap Page are used toshow your track andspeed, along with distanceand bearing to either acursor or to a destinationwaypoint.Bearing toWaypointPan & OptionFieldsTrack SpeedDistance toWaypointZoom ScalePresentPosition