Is It Possible To Take Maps From One Sd Card And Put Them On Another?

[ColdSVT]

I have a hb 899 and am wondering if i can take my maps that ive made and put them on another card to use in a friends hb unit? His is a 799

[Wayne P.]

How did you make your maps?????

 

There is no such model as a 799.

[ColdSVT]

How did you make your maps?????

There is no such model as a 799.

I havnt yet made them...i was just hoping once i get them recorded that i could give them to my tourny buddy

Sorry his is a 798

[Wayne P.]

A recording does not make maps. 

A software program makes the contour maps from the recording's data.

 

You have two choices;

Lakemaster has the Auto Chart or Auto Chart Pro computer program that you purchase and use your recorings to create contour maps on a Zero Line card with your computer. That card is what your unit reads.

Since you own the computer program, you can do whatever you want with the data with how many Zero line cards you want to purchase. A Zero Line card has the outline of thousands of bodies of water to create your own contour mapping. When processed, the Zero Line card is used just like a Lakemaster map card.

 

Navionics has the Sonar Charts program that you upload your recordings to and they process the data to create contour maps that you then download to either a Navionics Hotmaps Platinum card or a Navionics+ card.

You cannot copy Navionics data since you won't have Navionics map writing/creating software and cannot purchase it.

 

If you have a Humminbird ONIX, you can record and create contours on the unit with Auto Charts Live, but that cannot be copied, just applied to the Lakemaster Auto Chart software and Zero Line card. The unit will store 8 hours of data.

[Wayne P.]

One more thing. You can copy your recordings, give them to your friend and he can purchase the Lakemaster software to apply the recordings to.

 

Or he can purchase a Navionics product and download your data that was processed by Navionics with the Sonar Charts program. Sonar Charts is shared data and can be viewed on the Navionics website's Web App and by anyone that updates their Platinum or + card.

[ColdSVT]

I see...thank ya sir

[Sonik]

So, Wayne. Just to make sure I understand here and to tack onto the other thread I talked with in, if I bought the Autochart software with the card, I record my own sonar logs, dump them into the software, and the software compiles and dumps the completed map back onto the Zero Line card for use on the lake? Kind of a similar approach with the Navionics+ but the software is replaced by their site and an extra week or so and then everyone has access to my waypoints/edits and the map I made.

If so, how does that work with multiple units? With the 798ci hd si on my console and a 859ci hd di at the bow, connected via an ethernet cable, will they share the completed maps or waypoints? If I go with Autochart, will I have to buy two sets of the software or can I just buy an extra SD card from Walmart And do a total copy?

Sorry for all the questions but you know your stuff on these Humminbird units.

[Wayne P.]

So, Wayne. Just to make sure I understand here and to tack onto the other thread I talked with in, if I bought the Autochart software with the card, I record my own sonar logs, dump them into the software, and the software compiles and dumps the completed map back onto the Zero Line card for use on the lake? Kind of a similar approach with the Navionics+ but the software is replaced by their site and an extra week or so and then everyone has access to my waypoints/edits and the map I made.

If so, how does that work with multiple units? With the 798ci hd si on my console and a 859ci hd di at the bow, connected via an ethernet cable, will they share the completed maps or waypoints? If I go with Autochart, will I have to buy two sets of the software or can I just buy an extra SD card from Walmart And do a total copy?

Sorry for all the questions but you know your stuff on these Humminbird units.

For Humminbird products, only the ONIX and ION units share map data.

All the core units need their own map card, so to have the same maps, you need duplicate map cards.

You can only load Auto Charts on a Zero Line card. You would only need one Auto Chart computer software to process the recordings--but each unit would need a loaded Zero Line card to display the processed sonar logs.

In no case can you copy map data to a memory card that is not prepared to accept the data---encrypted.

 

Lakemaster has a new feature this year that you can purchase a single body of water in their inventory and load that to a regular memory card that has been encrypted by a Humminbird unit. I did one for testing.

 

Waypoints, Routes and Tracks are not map data. They are GPS data and can be shared via Ethernet.

The GPS works the same with or without a map background.

There are a couple of plotter types:

A Track Plotter does Waypoints, Routes and Tracks on a blank plotter screen.

A Chart Plotter does Waypoint, Routes, and Tracks with a chart (map) background.

The units you listed are a Combo sonar and Chart Plotter.

 

Humminbird has some less expensive units that can be Track Plotters with the additional purchase of a GPS antenna. Those can never be a Chart Plotter since you cannot add maps to them. The 718 is one of them

[Sonik]

Thank you very much. Fantastic information.

[Wayne P.]

Thank you very much. Fantastic information.

One more thing.

With Auto Charts, only the track you record will have contours. That means to have connected contour lines for a whole body of water, you have to parallel/overlap your recordings to fill in a whole lake.

 

With Navionics Sonar Charts. They create a HD map based on your recordings and the shoreline or their data or both and you get a whole body of water with contours that you can adjust later to make it more accurate.

They will also re-draw the zero line ( shoreline) if that is inaccurate and add docks and ramps.

The maps they purchase from "other sources" may be inaccurate and when you are recording, your track may be shown on land. They fix that. Every body of water I have done Sonar Charts with has been redrawn to apply all of my data. One body of water had no map or even an outline--they created the whole lake to apply my data by changing their world base map. Takes longer to get a processed map when that has to be done.

BUT Sonar Charts is FREE and included with Navionics Hotmaps Platinum and Navionics+ versions.

[Robeng]

great info.  consuming data  :-)