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Location: Stevens Point, WI | tcbetka - 5/25/2010 2:58 PM
Not to hijack the thread here, but this is related to Navionics cards...
I just got the gold card for Green Bay. There are depth contour markings all over the place, but there are also these little red circles, with a white '-' (dash) symbol, possibly indicative of a minus sign (I am guessing). I haven't gotten a chance to hunt down the answer, but what are these showing? Intuition tells me they indicate a lack of complete data for those areas, but there are depth markings all around them...so I am not sure I fully understand what I am looking at. I used the chip for the first time two days ago, so I am trying to learn the syntax.
Thanks, and sorry for the slight variance from the established course of this thread.
TB
Tom,
Here is the reply I got back from our Navionics contact in regards to your question.
Those marking are usually no anchorage symbols. They are meant for larger boat traffic and are common where there are large no anchoring areas. Unfortunately, due to the way some plotters display that information there can be a lot of them at times. There is no lack of data, and to the recreational crowd certainly not a “Do Not Enter” scenario. That symbol is more for the larger boat crowd. |
