MARINE DATA FOR WEST COAST OF FLORIDA

[Doug]

I downloaded the West coast of Florida from the TOPO maps, but it does not include any marine data (day marks, bouys, etc.) Is there anyplace I can download this type info to my Garmin 76C?

Thanks,
Doug,
St Petersburg

[Indrid Cold]

That info wasn't included on that mapset. You might look into this tutorial:
http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/creating-raster-noaa-charts-for-garmin-gps-units-with-moagu/

[-Oz-]

There is only a few areas where marine data is included.  The exact areas are mentioned on the topo page.

[maps4gps]

Marine (or air) safety data would require updating on a weekly basis and would be very time consuming repatitive task.  You really would not want to depend on months or year old data.

[Doug]

I'm sorry, but I do not buy that. The marine map data that is on my Garmin 3210 is at least a couple of years old. Some of the paper charts I have were surveyed as early as the 1940's, and that is the latest version available.

The changes in navagation markers does not change that often. I agree one should also consult the latest notice to mariners, but not to make data available just because it may be somewhat out of date is not a viable reason. Even if I wanted to buy updated marine charts every few months, they would not be available, as that data is usually updated on a yearly basis. To me, having marine navagational charts that are even 5 years old is much better than having no charts at all.

[maps4gps]

I'm sorry, but I do not buy that.

Garmin does sell a marine mapset - BlueChart.

... not to make data available just because it may be somewhat out of date is not a viable reason.

More likely the situation was that the mapauthor found some data and included it as an extra bonus for the area he obtained it for; perhaps to see what the user response would be.  To make a good/usable mapset with marine data would probably take someone with a good knowledge of what was required/important in marine navigation.  Would you like to take on that task; perhaps as an overlay mapset? 

To me, having marine navagational charts that are even 5 years old is much better than having no charts at all.

Do you have Garmin's BlueChart mapset?

[Indrid Cold]

There's a lot of work needed to format the data for a Garmin 76C and so far, not a lot of interest.

[-Oz-]

... not to make data available just because it may be somewhat out of date is not a viable reason.

More likely the situation was that the mapauthor found some data and included it as an extra bonus for the area he obtained it for; perhaps to see what the user response would be.  To make a good/usable mapset with marine data would probably take someone with a good knowledge of what was required/important in marine navigation.  Would you like to take on that task; perhaps as an overlay mapset?

This is exactly the reason; i included what I could find.  If you have a source for the other that is easy to include then I will include it when i get back to the USA.