Garmin cartridges

Robin

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When and how did Garmin change cartridegeformats ? I have just given away some Garmin Bluecharts to someone on another forum, these were inherited with our last boat and our new Garmin stuff has all pre-loaded charts or takes G2 Vision cards as extras but in a different format ( looks like an SD card??0 Should I have given away these cartridges, or sent them to a museum or sold them for a fortune on EBay??
 
They changed some years ago now. I had a 2010 which used the old format cartridges but they stopped supporting them so no updates available. I changed to a 5012 which takes the new format SD card type charts although I do not bother with the "vision" variant as they are more expensive and I am not sure in practice that I would use the added features.
 
richardbrennan said:
They changed some years ago now. I had a 2010 which used the old format cartridges but they stopped supporting them so no updates available. I changed to a 5012 which takes the new format SD card type charts although I do not bother with the "vision" variant as they are more expensive and I am not sure in practice that I would use the added features.
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Thanks. The boat they came with ( our then liveaboard mobo) had a 2010 and a 3010 plotter we have recently installed a new 4012 based network on our new sailboat which has all USA charts pre-loaded but I did add a vision 2 card for Jacksonville, north Florida to Bahamas since this adds pictures, satellite imagery and also has the ability to suggest a route between two wpts given the boat's draught and bridge mast clearance required, a quick way to set up routes in and along the Atlantic ICW without needing to place 100s of individual wpts myself along the 'magenta' line on the chart.
 
nigelmercier said:
They changed just before I vowed never to buy Garmin gear again. Unfortunately I went against this and bought a Garmin version of a TomTom for use in the Canary Islands. It is total pants in comparison.
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I said way back if Garmin had dumped their customers once thay can do it again and also said I wouldn't trust them. Then I had a brainstorm and bought over $7000 worth of new stuff:eek:
 
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