![]() ![]() They are rather expensive, and I gather they dropped support for topo maps a couple years ago which made a lot of people mad. ![]() The cool thing is that you can export directly from Globalmapper and it is really fast - no need for cgpsmapper or other software.Īnyone else ever play with this? Does anyone actually have one of these devices? The hardware is interesting - 5" screen at 480x480 pixels. Obviously it would take some work to clean this up and make it look good on Lowrance, but really the process was very straightforward. So I tried exporting a full 24k quad from my NJ topo and that also worked fine. It wasn't pretty, but it worked on the emulator. This time it worked like a charm and I was able to install a simple map that contained major roads in my area. Still not ready to give up, I dug around and realized I also had the 32 bit version of GM on my desktop machine. It seemed to hang for awhile, and when I looked it had created over 1100 files on my desktop where I wanted to save the map! Had to kill GM and delete all the files. I had the 32 bit version handy on my Windows tablet, so I made a really simple "map"with only one line object and tried exporting. Didn't go well at first when I used the 64 bit version of GM 12 I got an error that some kind of. ![]() What a great idea - I wish Garmin would offer the same thing.Īnyway, I noticed that Globalmapper is able to export vector data in Lowrance's. These are like a "virtual gps" that works just like the real thing although they can't be used for navigation. Digging around on their site, they have something very cool - free emulators that you can download for many of their devices. Recently I've gotten curious about other vector map formats, and realized that I knew next to nothing about Lowrance. ![]()
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