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!
C Graham <C.Graham.377e6c1@boatbanter.com> 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.
C Graham <C.Graham.377e6c1@boatbanter.com> 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.
This has now changed a little. Now, with the latest 5xx series marine chart plotters, you have to give up on uploading waypoints and routes from a PC and forget about wanting or needing RS-232 (or any other kind) of NMEA outputs.
Don't forget to disable the DSC mode on your VHF radio telephone, you won't be needed that any more.
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.
Expensive paperweight, no? But prettier than a rock I guess.
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!
C Graham;619111 Wrote:
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
