Domain Name Com's Electronics Garmin MapSource BlueChart CD-ROM for Garmin GPS Units, Americas (010-10317-00)

Electronics Garmin MapSource BlueChart CD-ROM for Garmin GPS Units, Americas (010-10317-00)

Domain Name Com's - Electronics : Garmin MapSource BlueChart CD-ROM for Garmin GPS Units, Americas (010-10317-00)

- read the fine print
be aware that this chart system, unlike the road map versions, includes an unlock code for only a small portion of the coverage area. if you want more areas, you pay a new unlock code for each one.

Rating:

- Misleading and very costly: buyer beware
Although the packaging offers coverage of the U.S., Canada, Caribbean, and South America on this expensive CD, you can only unlock a very limited "region" with your original purchase. Says Garmin tech support, "When you purchase BlueChart, you're entitled to one free region, and then additional regions can be purchased for $116.65." The word "free" here reflects Garmin's generally abysmal use of language found on their Web site, a labyrinth of obfuscation tangled in their arcane and ultra-paranoid "unlocking" technology and hidden prices. Unlike their Topo and City Navigator CDs where you get a lot of maps for your money, BlueChart gave me a limited sliver of southwest Florida for my purchase price. When I went to load Cape Cod, I discovered I would need to pony up another $116 for this small region. To unlock everything on this CD would costs many, many thousands of dollars, and nowhere is this clear to the unwary consumer.

What is especially grating in all this is that Garmin relies on U.S. government maps and GPS satellites that we taxpapers have already paid for. I find the marketing of Blue Chart really deceptive, especially given the important public safety implications of nautical mapping.

I would add that boat-towing travelers and nautical siteseers will need shoreside mapping and road info, for which these charts are useless, so you'll need additional map products and memory cards to show roads, parks, dining, and local amenities. Buyer beware.

Rating:

- Garmin Americas BlueChart
Easily installed, transferring of waypoints is simple and quick but detail level is not as good as Nobeltec.

Rating:

- It is exaclty what is says
As of 10/16/06 V8.5 is the most current version, and that it what was shipped to me.
Once you install the CD you get to only choose from a rather small area. Like 1/4-1/2 of your state (for me, Orlando-Key west). This was a HUGE disappointment. City navigator gives you the ENTIRE US map on DVD for streets, that's 2 gigs of data, so why does Blue Chart only give you like 20megs of bluechart data on a CD. It just doesn't make sense.
This software is pricey, but necessary for boating.
All and all I'd like to give it 3 stars for making me feel ripped off but I gave it 4 stars because the product itself is actually very good.

I also feel that once you buy their overpriced software, that you should be entitled to updates for it. But of course you are not. You have to go and plant down more money to Garmin if you want the next version.

Don't get me wrong, Garmin is a great company with great software, I just wish they weren't so greedy.

Rating:

- Wow - Boating from My PC !!!
This is fantastic !!! Map out my trips from the comfort of my PC and then download them into my Garmin 2210. Its so fun, why go out? And no more lost waypoints... The only problem is that I entered all my routes and waypoints the first hour, its that easy - Now I have nothing to do but to follow them... And I got a great price $99. I did have some inital problem with my GPS and PC seeing each others maps - Turned-out to be the GPS' software needed to be updated.

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