Does anyone know whether the non-fee charts now available from NOAA
and Maptech ** can used directly or adopted for use with the Garmin
handheld 76CS and, if so, how? **

or whether/where there are other sources for usable non-Garming
protrietary charts?

much thanks .........

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** http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/ChartSer.../jsp/index.jsp

http://www.freeboatingcharts.com/

wrote:
Does anyone know whether the non-fee charts now available from NOAA
and Maptech ** can used directly or adopted for use with the Garmin
handheld 76CS and, if so, how? **

or whether/where there are other sources for usable non-Garming
protrietary charts?

much thanks .........

--------------------

** http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/ChartSer.../jsp/index.jsp

http://www.freeboatingcharts.com/

No.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in news:CaAFg.5036
:

Does anyone know whether the non-fee charts now available from NOAA
and Maptech ** can used directly or adopted for use with the Garmin
handheld 76CS and, if so, how? **


You don't REALLY think Garmin is going to let you install a free chart and
not pay them $115 for an unlock code, do you? You already have the charts,
you just don't have the CODE. Cyphered into the code is your 76CS'
electronic serial number so the code from the guy down the dock, who has
the same thing, won't work in your 76.

It's all about preventing piracy of the charts the taxpayers...YOU...have
already paid for.

The short answer is .........of course......... NO, same as always.

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You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

wrote in :

All lunches should be free. Right, Larry?



Not free at all....prepaid. How much tax did you pay for the US Geodetic
Survey over the course of your lifetime? Why are they giving the charts to
the spammers to resell to us at exhorbitant prices?

Nope...doesn't wash. We're all quite prepaid to the tune of billions.

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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

You might want to check out http://rwsmaps.griffel.se/ This guy is
converting topos of the Caribbean into Garmin format. He has also posted
the instructions for how do it yourself. Not easy but if you have a lot of
charts to convert it might be worth the effort.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
news:CaAFg.5036
:

Does anyone know whether the non-fee charts now available from NOAA
and Maptech ** can used directly or adopted for use with the Garmin
handheld 76CS and, if so, how? **


You don't REALLY think Garmin is going to let you install a free chart and
not pay them $115 for an unlock code, do you? You already have the
charts,
you just don't have the CODE. Cyphered into the code is your 76CS'
electronic serial number so the code from the guy down the dock, who has
the same thing, won't work in your 76.

It's all about preventing piracy of the charts the taxpayers...YOU...have
already paid for.

The short answer is .........of course......... NO, same as always.

--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

There is a yahoo group for those wanting to do this. Its pretty
tedius. I guess you have to consider that's what you are paying for
when you buy Garmin maps. Garmin has vectorized these tax payer maps.

gps-mapping · GPS mapping newsgroup

take a look

Don

wrote:
There is a yahoo group for those wanting to do this. Its pretty
tedius. I guess you have to consider that's what you are paying for
when you buy Garmin maps. Garmin has vectorized these tax payer maps.

gps-mapping · GPS mapping newsgroup

take a look

Don

You could apply the same faulty logic to all maps and charts. The
product that you are paying for has value added by the third party to
make it suitable for your purposes. You ca probably get all the raw
information for free.