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Garmin 4000 & 5000 series chartplotters
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. |
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Garmin 4000 & 5000 series chartplotters
"rec.boats" wrote in
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. Hmm...I'll have to start looking for another cheap Garmin "throw away". I paid $12 for my Garmin 185 GPS/Sonar/Chartplotter some one threw away to a thrift shop because damned Garmin won't let anyone produce the chart plugs for them, trying to force boaters to buy a new $900 plotter every few years. Same old proprietary NMEA bull**** boaters have suffered since NMEA was organized. As long as boaters will buy it, they'll all keep producing incompatible electronics with forcible obsolescense. Larry -- |
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Garmin 4000 & 5000 series chartplotters
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. |
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Garmin 4000 & 5000 series chartplotters
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? -- 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. |
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Garmin 4000 & 5000 series chartplotters
On 10 maio, 11:21, "rec.boats" wrote:
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. And the new Garmin 420 series only accepts the BlueChart G2 VISION SD card, about 2 times the price of a regular BC, and for us here in South America, it it almost unusable since do not have navigation details of the majority of the coast besides it do have ANY tide information as well.. By the way, the Navionics Gold Plus used on the Raymarine Plotters is 10 times better for the same price .. After having owned 12 Garmin's Gps since 1992, now I still have 3 Garmin Gps Plotters (G130, G76, G276C) all 3 now completely obsoletes since do not have AIS support, and I pretend to change my Gps provider for another brand ASAP. |
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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 . .. 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? -- 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. |
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