{"id":1787358,"date":"2019-05-17T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787358"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:49:37","slug":"garmin-announces-the-overlander-an-offroading-gps-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/garmin-announces-the-overlander-an-offroading-gps-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Announces the Overlander, An Offroading GPS Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Garmin announced<\/a> the Overlander<\/a> GPS receiver today. It’s designed for off-road, off-grid navigation, with maps that include public lands boundaries and 4×4 trails (in the Americas, at least), sensors to detect roll and pitch angles, and other features suitable for mucking around in a Jeep or ATV. Costs $700. [Engadget<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

Anyone who assumes that the GPS device market has been killed by smartphones will be (a<\/em>) surprised that Garmin is still around and (b<\/em>) wrong. Though its automotive segment continues to decline\u2014last quarter<\/a> it was down to only 16.6 percent of Garmin’s revenues, making it Garmin’s smallest market segment\u2014Garmin continues to do well in other market segments. Building devices for very specialized uses, for which a smartphone app might not be up for the task\u2014see above\u2014seems to be one of the ways it goes about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garmin announced the Overlander GPS receiver today. It’s designed for off-road, off-grid navigation, with maps that include public lands boundaries and 4×4 trails (in the Americas, at least), sensors to detect roll and pitch angles,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,121],"tags":[269,1341],"class_list":["post-1787358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","category-industry","tag-garmin","tag-offroading","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":795,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/garmin-is-buying-delorme\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787358,"position":0},"title":"Garmin Is Buying DeLorme","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Garmin has announced that it is buying Maine-based GPS manufacturer DeLorme. \"Garmin will retain most of the associates of DeLorme and will continue operations at its existing location in Yarmouth, Maine following the completion of the acquisition. 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