Garmin G2 Vision Card

[Bartley Trowbridge]

Thisis one more reason Garmin will NOT be considered for my next chart plotter. I am still unhappy that they discontinued and made obsolete their proprietary data cards which means my 3206 can no longer get any chart updates. Garmin made the decision to use the proprietary cards and now have made the devices that use them obsolete.

Garmin seems to have lost the focus on the customer.

I would hope Garmin, after reading these comments and those on THT, would reconsider the wisdom of their decision on this matter.

Unfortunately, large organizations find it extremely difficult to modify their positions particularly if the decision was made at a high level. No one enjoys telling the boss he/she is wrong or confessing to having made a dumb recommendation to the boss.

At the end of the day

Raymarine has kick ass products, and with me a long history of supporting their products with new releases for a very long time, for example updates for AIS and HD radar for my 2006 classic e-80 chartplotters. Garmin cut short the life of my gps handhelds, with no new charts. Ouch.

Raymarine has had a lead also in better interfaces in their products for users, e.g. ease of use important.

Garmin, has all these neat new features for sailboat racing.

I am attracted to the idea of crowd source depths, but the above is going to factor in far more than anything else.

My 2 cents.

Hi Erik

Hoping you can help. I was chosen as a beta tester for sonarcharts for garmin. Problem arose with the sd card format . I am running an older garmin 3210 that uses the older garmin data card format. The sonarchart sd is not compatable. Do you know of anyone who can transfer the data from the sd card (img files) to say an old garmin data card. BTW I have a data card reader functioning on a 32 bit system but have been unsuccessful in any data transfer. Would love to use this sonarchart data on the 3210.

thanks willie mars

Hi Hartley,

I was informed today that several nav aids in the area were already corrected via notices to mariners some time ago, however we did find a new positioning error with one of the nav aids that has now been corrected and released.

Thanks

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