Re: Navionics
Posted: 19 Jan 2018, 00:01
Might pay to check back as insight genesis is a community based information map so keeps gett ing updated.shane wrote:My Navionics map card did a self destruct a few months ago while sitting in my laptop. Thankfully I pulled it out before the whole computer melted. Unfortunately no warranty claim as it was past Lowrance/Navionics warranty period (and I can't find the original receipt to do a ACL claim). I've looked for map cards on gumtree etc but the XL50 doesn't come up that often and can be as much as a new sounder. CH Smith were selling old Eilte 4 CHIRP head units with XL50 Gold for the price of a card for a while but seem to have run out of them. Imho I don't believe there's sufficient value in purchasing a new card directly from Navionics.
I've played around with recording my own tracks but the Elite 4 CHIRP keeps saying it's running out of storage space, even with an empty card. I've also looked into Insight Genesis community maps but these are still very limited for Australia and you can only load up one at a time, not in combination. I currently have the Bass Strait Community map loaded but it doesn't have much apart from strips either side of the heads and Flinders. I'd love to find a way of scanning/converting the Navionics webapp data onto a .kmz file or similar community base map, but I haven't found a way as yet.
I guess I'll just have hope I can win the Elite 5 tsi at the NSC.
I have most east Gippsland estuaries on the one micro sd card, you can swap between mapped area's in the one location (Mallacoota top/bottom lake and Genoa river ) through the maps menu.