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Nautical Chart Data in Maps

Jbtamug99
over 6 years ago
Anyone know how to actually get the nautical chart information to show up in the Maps activity? I’m sitting offshore learning (ok, playing with) my watch and I can’t seem to get buoys to show on it. I’ve got it set for “Marine Chart Mode” in settings, but I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong from there.

I also tried downloading an OpenSeaMap format file from bbbike.org to get my chart info as a custom map, but my fenix doesn’t seem to want to open it.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Bump. I also tried using OpenSeaMap and the Fenix didn't like it.  Has anyone figured out a way to do this.  Would be great for kayaking. Enabling marine features on the watch itself did nothing. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Did you try disabling some of the other "non-marine" maps? I think I had a similar issue when I downloaded some non-Garmin maps. I had to disable the default Garmin maps for them to show up. Not sure if that is your issue but give it a try. 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to outlaw24

    Thank you for the response.  I did and also tried several other maps one at a time.  None of the Garmin or open maps showed marine features.  

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    This shows the US Nautical Map from VeraciousMaps.com

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    You need to download the open sea maps in the “latin1” format, not the “utf-8” format. It worked for me with that setting. I did run into a different issue in that my fenix 5x will only load 1 open sea map, even if I put in 2 different maps on the device covering 2 different areas. It picks the biggest map of the 2, in that case and will not show the smaller map as an option to “turn on”. I solved it by just down loading 1 large map from open sea map.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Hoiwurff

    FYI, the Veracious Maps are almost worthless.  They show some depth contour, but not any actual land, so you can be in a small lake and it still looks like the ocean- everything is white (and the depth contours don't even seem to show shorelines clearly). I tried a bunch of different ways to get it to overlay with other maps to delineate water/land with no success, and Veracious Maps did not respond to repeated requests for feedback, so I assume they just won't work as hoped.