Finding a particular place somewhere else used to take forever; even if you had a map you still do not know exactly where you are currently located. Map reading used to be fine art that was honed by years of use, and as you were a boy scout or an army ranger once, you know the advantage of knowing how to read maps and the Garmin Dakota 20 is useful in any situation whatsoever.
Unfortunately, ordinary people are not so blessed. Some people can read maps and know exactly where they are, and some people get lost inside a mall, with a map in hand. With that said, ever since the popularization of the GPS or the global positioning system using satellites as a form of electronic navigational aid, there has a revolution is its use. From the simple, like using it as an electronic compass to point to the true north, up to finding where a particular person lives and how to get there exactly from where you are.
Now we have the pocket sized versions of these GPS systems. Most GPS systems were bulky and/or hard to read. Sometimes the battery life is very short or you cannot find any maps of the place where you are going. This used to be the problems of early GPS systems that was marketed as a portable consumer hand held device.
With the Garmin Dakota 20, you have no more problems using it to pinpoint exactly where you are and where you are going. The Dakota 20 features a 2.6 inch touchscreen LCD, updatable maps using its built in microSD card slot, a three axis compass to find exactly where you are pointed even if the device is not in a level position, a barometric sensor to know how high you are and an estimated 27 hour battery life.
The Dakota 20 also features a very sensitive WAAS enabled GPS receiver that allows for easy location and logging of satellites that are in the vicinity. Furthermore, the Dakota 20 allows you the placing of way points in your route so that you know exactly where you are supposed to go even if you have never been to the place before or do not know how to get there.
The Dakota 20 also fits into the palm of your hand. This size makes it possible to put the Dakota 20 in your breast pocket for easy retrieval or put it around your neck with the accompanying lanyard. The Dakota 20 is even water resistant up to IPX7 standards, meaning that even if you get into a river or a lake, intentional or not, your Garmin will still be up and running.
Another thing about the Dakota 20 is that you can wirelessly share your waypoints, geo cache and other data with other people who use the same type of data that you use and you can plug in to your computer with its USB port for easy analysis of your data.
So whether you are hiking or just travelling to friend’s place in a far off part of the world, you can trust that the Garmin Dakota 20 will get you there safely and easily.