Having been through most of the Internet this afternoon (even Italy / France Spain/ Finland and Canada... apart form eBay, I can't find a source of charts for a Garmin 180. Obviously, since Garmin gave up on supporting any of their marine products 5 years ago there seems to be a massive demand for Micro G-Charts (and less so G-Charts.) I assume that they run on earlier PC architecture.

Does anyone know where to get these charts from? If not,

Has anybody tried to / knows how to :-
- "Read" one of these charts with a laptop?
- A device that you can use to plug the chart into to read it - like a cellphone / camera?
- The similar type of memory card to fit the ports

I'm not trying to advocate anything I shouldn't but this frustrates the hell out of me!

Chris

C Graham wrote in news:C.Graham.377e6c1
@boatbanter.com:

I'm not trying to advocate anything I shouldn't but this frustrates the
hell out of me!



You are supposed to throw away your perfectly good Garmin 180 and go to
Garmin to buy a new, proprietary-so-we-can-crap-on-you GPS ...so they can
repeat this procedure.

But, alas, you seem smarter than that....

I paid $12 for a Garmin GPS185 in perfect condition someone kept in the
shade of its cover all those years. It works great....er, ah, except for
the charts, of course.

Thanks Larry - so that's where I was going wrong!!

When I bought a white Garmin 48 in 1995, I thought it was the dog's ******** - but now I realise that Garmin has become a mass marketing and stitch-the-loyal-customer-base-up-business. Silly me!

Seriously though - if anyone has any suggestions...


Chris

I've been doing some digging around EBay and there are a couple of Power Sellers in CA who can sell 16 MB and 32 MB " Garmin Data cards " - along with USB cables.......

I might be visiting Lime Wire in the near future.


Hmmmm!