|
|
Blue Chart Cartography
| BlueChart cartography is
Garmin's exclusive marine cartography. It complements Garmin's new
line of handheld mapping products and marine chartplotters. These
detailed electronic nautical charts look just like paper charts when
displayed on your Garmin® chartplotter.
This line of cartography products is
designed to provide interactive viewing of detailed nautical chart
data, thereby providing navigators with innovative object-oriented
cartography. |
|
|
|
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 includes 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. |
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
|
