Humminbird Side Imaging Forums
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: sharky12 on June 17, 2012, 10:28:49 PM
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if you own a Platinum Plus chart purchased in the last six months, you can now register it online for the Freshest Data on the website and receive the updated offshore data bathy and the new one foot contour inshore data. This was the fish n chip from last year but now can be uploaded free for Platinum Plus. if you bought your chart up to 6 months ago do it right away. if you are buying it now, register within 60 days. a must have for the saltwater angler.
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do you know if it works for hotmaps platinum charts as well? Or is it just for the platinum plus charts?
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the Fish N Chip detail is only for saltwater so it wont show up on Hot Maps. With that being said, if you bought a Hot Maps Platinum within the last 6months or better yet within the last 6o days, register it now on the Navionics website and you will get one year of free updates. We have released this year already about 800 new updated lakes, contours, coloration, and structures and over 500 new HD lakes. its free for a year and its daily updates. hope that helps...
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Are there any plans of updating the central and eastern basins of lake erie? As of now its just government charts that navionics are using? Some detail but not the greatest.
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Navionics updates their maps everyday. May not be your lake at this time but all card info are updated when new things come around. For example, I'm a member of the Navionics Pro Staff....I'm charting a lake right now in Tennessee that is not on their maps....once I have enough info for the software dept., then this lake will show up as a new lake. There is no difference with lakes already in the cards...some...not all are updated...some more than others and depends on the large pro staff as well as outside volunteers that are sending info in on other S D blank cards. Hope this helps and if not, call Navionics customer service and can get their number on their website.
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actually i called navionics the other day and there sending me some of those cards to help them out with lake erie. give it a shot.
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Do any of you know if Navionics offsets the water depth information you send them with the lake level as it changes?
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That would be sweet. Lake Mead is just straight up scarry to cruise around in with the water level changing as much as 50-100 feet in depth in a years time. You look at the map and noted dangerous areas on your unit and think that point/area is 50 feet under the water and next thing you know you are almost grounded on it or you are staring at a island that should be well below the water line. You can only use the Navionics chart on Lake Mead as a extremely rough guide line and never a fact.
I don't know why a simple equation isn't available in the Navionics software to adjust for water level. This function should almost be automatic with units with GPS to take the current elevation from GPS and adjust the map accordingly.
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Some of the great lakes does have one foot contours in particular Erie. It has to be a Plainum Plus chart though to get it. There are more thins coming but can't speak about it quite yet.
You can adjust any Navionics chart with depth shading. On Humminbird you can adjust shaded depth by 1'. Color the contours in blue.
Fresh data is also correcting Coastlines and adding in new underwater structures on a daily basis.