Is there anyway to adapt these free charts to a Garmin chartploter(Bluecharts)? Danny Fletcher Nordhavn 46

The new free charts that everyone is writing about are raster files, pictures of NOAA paper charts. The Garmin BlueCharts are vector files which contain computer data that tells the Garmin chartplotter how to draw the charts. It is a big task involving a lot of manual effort to convert a raster chart into vector. It would be theoretically possible for some computer genius to write software to convert the free ENC charts to Garmin BlueChart format but it isn't likely, in my opinion. Jim Fidler "Fiddlesticks" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Fletcher" <dfletcher1@stx.rr.com> To: <great-loop@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 6:02 AM Subject: GL: Adapting these free charts > Is there anyway to adapt these free charts to a Garmin > chartploter(Bluecharts)? > > Danny Fletcher > Nordhavn 46