v GVN 53 Owner’s ManualPrefaceFailure to avoid the following potentially hazardous situations mayresult in injury or property damage.The navigation system is designed to provide you with routesuggestions. It does not reflect road closures or road conditions, trafficcongestion, weather conditions, or other factors that may affect safety ortiming while driving.Use the navigation system only as a navigational aid. Do not attemptto use the navigation system for any purpose requiring precisemeasurement of direction, distance, location, or topography.The Global Positioning System (GPS) is operated by the UnitedStates government, which is solely responsible for its accuracy andmaintenance. The government’s system is subject to changes whichcould affect the accuracy and performance of all GPS equipment,including the navigation system. Although the navigation system is aprecision navigation device, any navigation device can be misused ormisinterpreted and, therefore, become unsafe.CautionThis manual uses the term Caution to indicate a potentially hazardous situation, which, if not avoided, may result in minor injury or property damage. Itmay also be used without the symbol to alert you to avoid unsafe practices.Important InformationMAp DAtA InFoRMAtIon: One of the goals of Garmin is to provide customers with the most complete and accurate cartography that is available tous at a reasonable cost. We use a combination of governmental and private data sources, which we identify in product literature and copyright messagesdisplayed to the consumer. Virtually all data sources contain inaccurate or incomplete data to some extent. In some countries, complete and accurate mapinformation is either not available or is prohibitively expensive.