Map Making Software

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Any of you guys out there know of any software that lets you take a picture from like google earth or something and create a lake map from it?  Or would something like that just be easier to do in a normal ms paint type of program?  Theres no topo maps of my lake and I'd like to start mapping it out a little more as opposed to just going by memory.

[WRB]

Try; Warren Parsons, LIDAR laser generated topographic maps.

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/sccoast/html/tutid.htm

Your local government geological department should have topographic maps for the lake you are interested in.

WRB

[kikstand454]

im still completely unsure how everyone is getting depth charts of lakes online.

i have yet to find a single useful map online of the two lakes that i fish here the most. and they are pretty well known lakes.  theres a bass master open on one of them this year.

lake seminole and lake talquin have had many many pro tourneys on them.. and yet i cant get a depth chart for either of them to save my life.

stores here dont even carry them if i wanted to get a paper one. the "local geological" idea was a bust. nothing.

guess imma have to just break down and get a boat... so i can get a plotter... so i can get navionics! ;D

[WRB]

im still completely unsure how everyone is getting depth charts of lakes online.

i have yet to find a single useful map online of the two lakes that i fish here the most. and they are pretty well known lakes. theres a bass master open on one of them this year.

lake seminole and lake talquin have had many many pro tourneys on them.. and yet i cant get a depth chart for either of them to save my life.

stores here dont even carry them if i wanted to get a paper one. the "local geological" idea was a bust. nothing.

guess imma have to just break down and get a boat... so i can get a plotter... so i can get navionics! ;D

Have checked Navionics for a premium paper map Hotmap of the lakes you fish? Some are navigation maps, not detailed enough and some are 1' & 2' elevation maps. The maps cost about $15 and you can mail order them by lake name.

WRB

[RoLo]

im still completely unsure how everyone is getting depth charts of lakes online.

i have yet to find a single useful map online of the two lakes that i fish here the most. and they are pretty well known lakes. theres a bass master open on one of them this year.

lake seminole and lake talquin have had many many pro tourneys on them.. and yet i cant get a depth chart for either of them to save my life.

stores here dont even carry them if i wanted to get a paper one. the "local geological" idea was a bust. nothing.

guess imma have to just break down and get a boat... so i can get a plotter... so i can get navionics! ;D

Have checked Navionics for a premium paper map Hotmap of the lakes you fish? Some are navigation maps, not detailed enough and some are 1' & 2' elevation maps. The maps cost about $15 and you can mail order them by lake name.

WRB

Caveat:

Some Navionics High-Def hydro maps with 1-foot increments

begin at the 6-foot contour line, which are totally useless in most natural lakes!

Roger