blue chart St. joe bay?

Post by **Barhopr** » October 2nd, 2006, 8:08 pm

Just got my card in the machine and I can't get any detailed info for SJB. When I zoom in or out I can see the detail for about a half a second but then goes to no detail. It appears that a larger map is overlayed and is over rideing. Anybody got answers for a newbie?

Post by **sundown** » October 2nd, 2006, 8:27 pm

I looked at St Joe Bay on mine.. At one and a half mile scale it showed nothing..water outside the bay showed some detail and depth.

When I dropped scale to 1 mile it showed good detail of the bay.I have no idea why yours is doing like it is.. may try different scales.

I know other blue chart users on here can probably be of more help..

Post by **Chalk** » October 2nd, 2006, 8:27 pm

More info.....card in machine...GPS...PC....Washing Machine

..What?

Post by **Eerman** » October 2nd, 2006, 9:00 pm

I've got a Bluechart on a Garmin 172C and mine seems to work okay. Kick it a couple of times.

Post by **Barhopr** » October 2nd, 2006, 9:14 pm

At all scales I get no detail South of the ICW.

Post by **Chalk** » October 2nd, 2006, 9:24 pm

On the PC or GPS???????

You have to select a map or maps of a certain area to get all the detail....Like when you and me fished CIS....I had St. George loaded....it covered 100 yards past the ramp at CIS, anything north of that was detail less....On mapsource you use the map tool and select the region you will fish..then load it to the GPS...then check it....sometimes it won't take, so I check it to make sure

Post by **Barhopr** » October 2nd, 2006, 9:27 pm

this is the card for the GPS. Shows detail in all areas except SJB and CIS, go figure

. Also, no maps show on the PC when conected to the PC?

Post by **Barhopr** » October 2nd, 2006, 9:29 pm

problem seems to be w/ map 11402 (B) I know detail is there but this map seems to be over rideing.

Post by **Chalk** » October 2nd, 2006, 9:35 pm

Can you load it into Mapsource?

Post by **Barhopr** » October 2nd, 2006, 10:25 pm

negative, when I go to transfer map to the PC it says there are no maps on the unit? Here is a screen shot of the PSJ detail......nevermind its a bitmap file and I can load those to my web site.

Post by **Barhopr** » October 2nd, 2006, 10:31 pm

Heres the screen shot:

Post by **GIT-R-WET** » October 2nd, 2006, 11:11 pm

I had a similar issue last week and had to go to garmin website & download upgrades for my 3210 & mapsource on pc,that fixed my problems.

Post by **Cranfield** » October 3rd, 2006, 5:26 am

Does the white arrow mark your "hot spot" ?

Good luck with your problem.

Post by **Chalk** » October 3rd, 2006, 7:20 am

Those tan lines are the areas I have to select with the map tool prior to loading to my GPS or they will show up like you have....But your dealing with a card....all my stuff is software, no card....I would look for the upgrade and GIT-R-WET mentioned and try that....If that didn't do it, call Garmin customer support

Let us know, whatcha find out...

Post by **Barhopr** » October 3rd, 2006, 9:00 am

I'm contacting Garmin today, the card has a date of July '06 on it so I assume it's up to date. Thanks for the effort
And yes that is marking my secret grouper hole in the Bay. I make all of my reefs were the maps come together on charts to make them easyier to find while I'm out there. Those map edges show up real well on the bottom!