Garmin Blue Chart G2 Vision Chips

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Will-C

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I had a credit with Garmin so I decided to purchase a new SD card that covered from New York to the Chesapeake Bay. I have a 4208 multi function Garmin Chartplotter that came with preloaded charts of the coastal U.S. When we are not traveling we take the boat to Tuckerton New Jersey and go out to the Little Egg Inlet area and beyond. From the entrance of Tuckerton creek the trip involves lots of winding around past islands and numerous sand bars. This week with the new expensive mapping I noticed a green can and a red nun bouy completely out of position on the chart plotter. If in the fog and without a bread cumb trail to follow this would put you right up on a sand bar. See pictures on page 5 of Will-C's album. The first picture shows our boat to the right of a green can as we head out towards the inlet. The picture of the chartplotter at almost the same time shows where it thought i should be and the previous bread crumb trails of previous trips going though where the cans are actually located. If someone was in the fog with out radar this would clearly have them up on top of a pretty shallow sand bar. If someone wants to attach the pictures to the thread that would be good. I'll report the problem to Garmin as the position is clearly shown on the bottom right of our chartplotter. Just a heads up and another reason why we use Coastal Explorer is the charts you select get updated everytime to use the software if you have an internet connection at the time of start up.
D.D.
 
How accurate is the "built in" hard drive map of this area. My personal finding is that the up graded maps add little to the base maps in the Garmin, Navionics or C maps. I don't use the POI, or the photos/3d views etc.

If there is an error, Garmin will correct it--and hopefully send you a new chip. Personal complaints (actually Jeff Siegel) got Garmin to use the Lewis Explorer charts of the Bahamas, back a few years ago.
 
I called Garmin and they just directed me to do an an online error report. The coastal base charts that came with the unit were ok. I really don't care for the way the premium chip displays. The photo etc are not something I use. Active captain for free is much better. I think I'm going to see if I can return the chip for credit.
D.D.
 
It doesn't always mean Garmin was wrong. Around here they pick up the buoys for the winter and are placed slightly different in the spring. Poor placement or adjusting to the new depth contours? I don't know. I do know of a marker or two that move from year to year. I think of the charts as a reference or starting point. Personal skill needs to fill in the blanks sometime.
 
My message to Garmin on the map error this is their reply below. I attached the picture of our chartplotters screen to the error report.


Flag this messageRE: Cartography Error ReportWednesday, June 22, 2011 10:37 AMFrom: "Cartography Mailbox" <cartographymail@garmin.com>Add sender to ContactsTo: "fishdeem@verizon.net" <fishdeem@verizon.net>Hi David,



Thank you for contacting Garmin Cartography. I have passed your report along to our marine cartography quality team for evaluation and correction if necessary.



Thank you again for your interest in Garmin and please let me know if I may be of further assistance.



Regards,



Jason



Garmin International

1200 E. 151st Street

Olathe, KS (USA) 66062

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From:
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 1:46 PM
To: Cartography Mailbox
Subject: Cartography Error Report



General Information:

Name:
David Deem

Phone:


Garmin Product:
GPSMAP 4208

Cartography Product:
marine-BlueChart® g2 Vision®





Location of Discrepancy:

Latitude:
n39 31' 32.6"

Longitude:
w07401716.8"



Type of Discrepancy:

Error:
Green can and red nun completely out of position shown on chart which in the real world is right on top of a shallow sand bar. previously had traveled thru here and the Us coastal charts preloaded in my 4208 are correct. I have a picture of my chart plotters screen showing proper location of my bread crumb trails with boat icon and where the green can and the red nun bouy are shown on the chartplotter. My 4208 has had all the current updates.





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