Depth finder/GPS question

[SweetHomeAlabama]

Is it possible to get the output of a depthfinder/GPS routed to a laptop computer? The reason I ask is because of the small screen size of most depthfinders. It would be nice to able to plug the depthfinder into a laptop for a larger screen size.

[Humminbird_Greg]

Are you talking about a live feed or something that can be viewed later on the laptop?
Is this for the sonar data or is this just the depth and position that you want?

[smashdn]

If not they should. That is a great idea.

[SweetHomeAlabama]

[QUOTE=Humminbird_Greg;1065363]Are you talking about a live feed or something that can be viewed later on the laptop?
Is this for the sonar data or is this just the depth and position that you want?[/QUOT

I would like to hook the laptop up in the boat to look at live. Depth and GPS ocation on a lake map. Mainly just to have a larger screen.

I can't afford the large 10 inch screen depthfinders.

[Humminbird_Greg]

For live depth and coordinate information you can use the NMEA Output from our units to your laptop:



We don't stream the raw sonar data but we do have a Video Output on the larger 800, 900 and 1100 series units.

[SweetHomeAlabama]

Thanks Greg!!!!! That's what I'm looking for.

[TnT]

For live depth and coordinate information you can use the NMEA Output from our units to your laptop:



We don't stream the raw sonar data but we do have a Video Output on the larger 800, 900 and 1100 series units.

I guess my 798 is just 2 numbers away from being able to do that

[Cane Pole]

Is it possible to get the output of a depthfinder/GPS routed to a laptop computer? The reason I ask is because of the small screen size of most depthfinders. It would be nice to able to plug the depthfinder into a laptop for a larger screen size.

What maps you gonna use??? If you use Mapsource on your laptop, you will have to use a Garmin gps to enable the moving map feature. I know these things.

Navionics have no moving map feature that I know of.

[TN Hillbilly]

Well you could use Oziexplorer for the moving map software and if nothing else print and scan maps from Mapsource to use as the map image in Ozi.

[Humminbird_Greg]

TnT,
What do you mean by:
“I guess my 798 is just 2 numbers away from being able to do that ” ?
Any of our Sonar + GPS units have this capability.