| This card covers Atchafalaya Bay to Brownsville, including Port Arthur, Galveston Bay, Matagorda Bay, and Padre Island (click on the map above to view the area covered). What is Garmin BlueChart? BlueChart cartography is Garmin's exclusive marine cartography. It complements Garmin's new line of handheld mapping products and marine chartplotters. These detailed electronic nautical charts look just like paper charts when displayed on your Garmin chartplotter.
This line of cartography products is designed to provide interactive viewing of detailed nautical chart data, thereby providing navigators with innovative object-oriented cartography. Descriptive details for features typically found on nautical charts can easily be viewed with a simple key press. Cursor movements over the chart provide descriptions for contour depths, chart number, navaid name, and much more. BlueChart data includes shaded depth contours, inter-tidal zones, spot soundings, wrecks, navaids, port plans, restricted areas, cable areas, anchorages, and more. Additionally, BlueCharts include information from the paper chart used in the digitization process such as chart number, name, scale, revision date, and Notice-to-Mariners date.
BlueChart data is offered in two formats--preprogrammed data cards or MapSource CDs. While MapSource BlueChart CDs contain detailed maps that can be downloaded to blank data cartridges or directly to some units, pre-programmed data cards come conveniently ready to plug into select Garmin chartplotters. See the MapSource Compatibility table above to determine which format works best with your unit.
BlueChart Features:
Vector data with paper chart-like appearance
Large coverage areas for ease of selection and greater overall satisfaction
Object-oriented functionality provides complete description for chart feature
Chart-by-chart presentation provides best resolution and detail that the chart will allow
Shaded depth contours and inter-tidal zones with spot soundings
Aids to navigation with view range and coverage including light sectors information
Port plans
U.S. tide data
Descriptions for chart name, number, Notice to Mariners date, publisher, and release date
Wrecks, restricted areas, cable areas, anchorages, shoals, spoilage and much more
Bridges are described indicating construction type, clearance, length, etc.
All data in WGS 84 datum
Bathymetric BlueChart
Garmin now offers an additional type of BlueChart cartography that is designed for fisherman. We refer to this as Bathymetric. The detail in our bathymetric charts includes many depth contours, names of local canyons, wrecks and obstructions, etc. These types of charts are designed to be used in conjunction with our traditional BlueChart data, as bathymetric type charts do not contain all the necessary navigational information. Bathymetric data is intended to be used as a fishing chart and should be used as a supplement to detailed BlueChart cartography.
Compatible with: GPSMAPs 172, 172C, 178, 178C, 182, 182C, 188, 188C, 2006, 2006C, 2010, 2010C, 276C, 376C, 3005C, 3006C and 3010C Not sure what maps you need? Check out our Garmin BlueChart Guide (click here).
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