Garmin GPSMAP 215 Owner's Manual & Reference

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Routes are broken down and navigated insmaller segments called ‘legs’. The waypointyou are going to in a leg is called the ‘activeto’ waypoint, and the waypoint immediatelybehind you is called the ‘active from’waypoint. The line connecting the ‘active to’and ‘active from’ waypoint is referred to asthe ‘active leg’.When a route is activated in the GPSMAPsystem, the route leg closest to your position isautomatically selected as the ‘active leg’.Waypoint 2(“active to” waypoint)Waypoint 1(“active from” waypoint)“Active Leg”«« ««ê37The GARMIN GPSMAP system lets you create and store up to 20 reversibleroutes with up to 50 waypoints each. Routes can be created and modified rightfrom the Map Page, allowing you to see each route graphically on-screen asyou create, review, modify or navigate the route. The GARMIN route system isa powerful and extremely flexible system that you’ll want to master to get themost out of your GPSMAP system.Each route in the GPSMAP system has its own route number. Routes 1through 19 are used as storage routes, with Route 0 always serving as theactive route you are navigating. When you activate a route, the storage routeyou are activating is simply copied into Route 0, the active route.This feature lets you modify your active route while you navigate, withoutchanging the storage route you activated. When you are finished navigatingthe active route, simply delete Route 0 by pressing the DELETE softkey (youstill have the original route in storage) to stop navigating the active route. Tostore a modified Active Route, copy Route 0 to an empty storage route.SECTION8ROUTESOverviewWhen a route is activated or inverted, it is copied into Route 0. The original routeremains intact in its original storage route.