BlueChart cartography is GARMIN’s exclusive marine cartography. It complements GARMIN’s new line of handheld mapping products and marine chartplotters. This line of cartography products is designed to provide interactive viewing of detailed nautical chart data, thereby providing navigators with innovative object-oriented cartography. These detailed electronic nautical charts look just like paper charts when displayed on your GARMIN chartplotter. Descriptive details for features typically found on nautical charts can easily be viewed with a simple key press. Cursor movements over the chart provide descriptions for contour depths, chart number, navaid name, and much more. BlueChart data will include shaded depth contours, inter-tidal zones, spot soundings, wrecks, navaids, port plans, restricted areas, cable areas, anchorages, and more. Additionally, BlueCharts include information from the paper chart used in the digitization process such as chart number, name, scale, revision date, and Notice-to-Mariners date.

Paired with any of GARMIN's new plotters, this cartography provides the detail of paper charts, giving you twice the coverage area of typical charts for half the price.



Please note that most Garmin Chartplotters will require a memory card and programming cable in addition to the BlueChart CD-ROM.

BlueChart Features:

Vector data with paper chart-like appearance

Large coverage areas for ease of selection and greater overall satisfaction

Object-oriented functionality provides complete description for chart feature

Chart-by-chart presentation provides best resolution and detail that the chart will allow

Shaded depth contours and inter-tidal zones with spot soundings

Aids to navigation with view range and coverage including light sectors information

Port plans

U.S. tide data

Descriptions for chart name, number, Notice to Mariners date, publisher, and release date

Wrecks, restricted areas, cable areas, anchorages, shoals, spoilage and much more

Bridges are described indicating construction type, clearance, length, etc.

All data in WGS 84 datum

GARMIN serves up this additional cartography in two forms—preprogrammed data cards or MapSource™ CD-ROMs. MapSource CDs contain detailed maps that can be downloaded to data cards or directly to units that don’t accept data cards. A variety of CDs available soon will offer detail that includes offshore cartography, fishing information, inland features, topographic maps, locations of services and attractions and more.

The latest release of BlueChart provides detailed coverage areas for North and South America, as well as Bathymetric charts for the East Coast.

Click Here to view Bluechart coverage on the Garmin Website.

One area Bluechart unlock certificate
Garmin # 010-10317-00