The charts have up to 1 ft contours to display a more accurate, enhanced and detailed picture of the bottom structure including that of swamps, canals, and marinas.īlueChart® g2 HD coastal charts feature up to 10 depth ranges as a part of its high-resolution Depth Range Shading, letting users clearly see their target depth.
The Garmin BlueChart® g2 HD HXAF001R provide navigational aids, spot soundings, depth contours, tides and currents, and detailed harbors and marinas. That’s why that difference.Product # 010-C0747-20 (microSD/SD™ Card) But in the core chart part of these (and that is a bit part of it all, clearly) the CHS charges pretty significant royalties and NOAA does not. >Not just core nautical charts go into all this, obviously–data from a lot of different companies go into each card (US, Canadian, etc). >Bottom line is there is so much Canadian HO content in the Canadian card. >The reason that US card is a regular (even though it covers a huge area) and the Canadian one is a Large is the price of a large is higher AND Canadian hydrographic office royalties are high and have to be covered. >The resolution, features and the rest are the same. A “large” will just cover more area than a “regular” vision card–usually. All it really amounts to is size of geographic coverage usually. I asked Garmin about this in an email to their cartography department – here was their responce:
The “Large” card (translate – more expensive) seemed to cover a geographically smaller area then the “regular” (cheaper) card. to San Diego (that seems like a large area?) and one “large” size card that covers Puget Sound, north to Port Hardy. Especially since they offer two cards that cover the Seattle area – one “regular” size card which covers from Vancouver, B.C. I, too, am a Puget Sound boater and was a little surprised by the price. There’s also significant news from Navionics about their fishing charts and planning software. But that’s not a bad thing some good ideas have to get repeated before they stick.Īnd, yes, as hinted at the bottom of the screen, I’ve now got a Garmin GXM 51 on the NMEA 2000 backbone, and I’ll write about that soon. Besides making me feel a bit like a fish myself, I’d call it a very unusual, and rather cool, fishfinder view, except that I saw something similar five years ago. The fish symbols on the right were saved from my last pass, and the black lines up there at the surface are my simulated tracks. The image below was taken with the 5212 in simulation mode, which is why the target depths don’t match up with the chart based depths seen in the transducer cone at left. In fact, I learned that somewhere along the line Garmin added the ability to show fish symbols as colored balls in this view, color dependent on signal strength I’d guess, and that they’re saved for a while so that when you circle back on a “school” they’re still hanging there at the depths originally targeted.
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But actually I haven’t used that mode much recently and when I fired up the machine in the lab this afternoon, it turned out that one or another of the recent software updates has made it a lot better. Both chart levels are also going to include animated current arrows.īut I was rather struck with this screen shot of the new g2 Vision’s 3D Fishing mode, because I’ve never seen it looking so good on my test 5212. Which sounds like what both Furuno and Raymarine have been offering for a while, and which is a valuable aid to situational awareness. There’s also a new feature in both chart levels that allows a user to add contour shading to all depths below a selected figure. But I did immediately recognize that busy harbor as Little Creek, VA, because I once departed to Bermuda from there, and there are a few new features that print can describe better…įor instance, while the new g2 and g2 Vision charts are available on pre-programmed cards right now, starting in April customers will be able to download regions of either flavor to their own SD cards.
I can’t really tell from the screen shot above what the “redesign” talked about in the press release is like, because it largely involves “transitions between zoom levels” and other possibly valuable improvements that you need to see in use. I’m not sure the 2009 charts ever got out, but I’m darn sure that all new editions go through some serious quality control. If you recall, the company got pretty excited about the 2009 edition, but then suffered some grief when a processing error caused a global recall. Today Garmin announced that updated 2010 g2 and g2 Vision BlueCharts are now available, apparently with some interesting changes.
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