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Bjarke M. Christensen Bjarke M. Christensen is offline
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Default Garmin 4000 & 5000 series chartplotters

Probably ...

I've always been a happy garmin customer, but it seems like my gpsmap292 is
going to be my last garmin. The war forces us to to change attitude. In the
future I will carefully select a map system and then pick any hardware that
will display it.

Bjarke

"Flemming Torp" fletopkanelbolle2rp.danmark wrote in message
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What is going on here???

Raymarine discontinues the support of C-Map charts in their newer
charplotters and Garmin seems to be doing the same with other brands ...

Is it some kind of power play (call it marketing?), where we - the
users/customers - are the victims ...

Or, any other - more positive or constructive - explanation?

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Flemming Torp
Gimle/DEN-61

"Bjarke M. Christensen" bjarkeNG@grevestrand_punktum_danmark skrev i en
meddelelse . dk...
Especially as the g2 charts are only marginal better than the classic
bluecharts ....

Bjarke

"rec.boats" wrote in message
ps.com...
I just heard today that the about to be released new 4000/5000 series
will only display g2 charts. If you have old mapsource or bluecharts
they will have to be upgraded. Very annoying that Garmin didi not
make the units backward compatible.