New Navionics Sonar Charts For Alabama River & Ky Lake Available For Download!

[JDFishing]

Hey all!

Very excited to show off some of the new Sonar Charts that have been released and are now available to update. Sonar Charts is a free feature available with the Navionics Platinum and the new Navionics + cards. Basically, Sonar Charts allows users to record data and load it into Navionics system and in return Navionics will turn those recordings into an additional map layer allowing their users free and total access to these maps as an above and beyond feature. The process is simple and extremely user friendly unlike other competitors that try to offer similar but at a very high cost and not as user friendly. Being that we are more powerful in numbers, this is the exact reason why this is the way of the future when you start seeing giant bodies of water getting extra fine tuned. We all know that bodies of waters, especially river systems change so dramatically from year to year that to always have access to Freshest Data gives you as a fisherman more for your money.

Here's a link to Sonar Charts: http://navionics.com/en/sonarcharts

Here's a few screen shots with much more coming!

Alabama River (Before Sonar Charts)



Alabama River (Sonar Charts)

 

 

 

Kentucky Lake (Before, During and After)








Also, with the much anticipated "official" release of Navionics + comes lots of excitement in that now you can download any areas you want, no more regions. If you want it download it, simply customize your own card for your own needs. I know my Tennessee River Peeps are stoked about this one! 

 

[00 mod]

So are you telling me there is a navionics for below the Pickwick Dam?  We call it the TN River, but technically it is KY lake?

 

Jeff

[Wayne P.]

What has been left out of all the posts about Sonar Charts is the details.

 

Sonar Charts is not and will not be Navionics data. It is created contour lines that are adjusted by those that participate in the Sonar Charts program. The pre-Sonar Charts contours are in no way accurate and will only be accurate at the specific recorded tracks like are shown in one of the examples. Every other location on the map is fiction and will remain that way until they are adjusted by recorded data and uploaded to the Navionics server to be applied.

 

This is a Google Earth image of a lake that another guy and I are doing with Sonar Charts. It shows the locations of the applied recordings.

Any place that does not have the red lines above them are fictional lines.

Navionics will probably never do a survey at this lake to create their own data there.

Sonar Charts allows the opportunity to generate a HD contour map of that body of water by those that care to participate in that program. It's a work in progress and will take months/years before the whole map is accurate unless time on the water is spent just recording and not fishing--I do both and the other guys does both also. 

 

 

This is the Navionics map of that lake:

 

 

 

This is the Sonar Charts fictional lines that will be adjusted as recordings are applied.

 

 

I haven't downloaded the map with the applied recordings yet since the recordings have not been applied correctly for this lake. One nearby has been adjusted to use uploaded data correctly.

 

The progress of the Sonar Charts layer can be viewed on the Navionics web site/ Products/ Web App.

 Use the round circle at the lower left to turn on and off the Sonar Charts layer. When the circle is blue, that is Sonar Charts, and when the circle is gray, that is the current Freshest Data Navionics map.

[00 mod]

Ok. So really the answer is no. And the fact that this is a current driven river. Normal water flow for this time of the year is 9,000 cfm. Last week they were running 240,000 cfm and spilling over the flood gates. Today was 85,000. So with the ever changing flow and therefore ever changing depths and contours, this area still will never be accurately charted. That is what I figured. Just confused as the original poster said it now would be.

Jeff

[JDFishing]

Jeff,

Sorry if I was confusing with my post but I never referred to the Pickwick Dam area or the TN River for that matter.

I shared the screen shots of the new Alabama River map in Montgomery, Alabama as well a single area of Kentucky Lake that has been improved in more detail via Sonar Charts. Cool to see these big tournament skies getting even more fine tuned!

Sorry if I threw ya for a loop!