Depth finder/GPS question

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.

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?

If not they should. That is a great idea.

[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.

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

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...omUnittoPC.jpg

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

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

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Originally Posted by Humminbird_Greg

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

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...omUnittoPC.jpg

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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.

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.