Garmin Blog

With today's Garmin Connect update, navigation on bike lanes, running and hiking trails, and walking paths just got a whole lot easier. Gone are the days when you'd have to stop during your best trail run, epic hike or cycling adventure to take out your paper trail map and double check that you are headed [...] The post Garmin’s Course Creator Keeps You on...

American 50K record-holder Josh Cox is one of my favorite sponsored athletes. He’s enthusiastic, has a great positive attitude, he’s a wonderful spokesman, the only problem is … he runs so far … and so fast. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, it just makes me feel like I’m slacking on my lunch runs. [...] The post Jake’s Journal: Josh Cox gets the...

When darkness, fog, rain, haze or solid IFR conditions keep you from seeing clearly out the windshield, Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT) is like taking the blinders off. Using sophisticated graphics modeling, SVT recreates a visual topographic landscape from the system’s terrain-alerting database. The resulting virtual reality display offers pilots a 3-D depiction of ground and water features, airports, obstacles and traffic – all...