Google Earth Mapping

How to load Google Earth maps on your Lowrance.

Download Qgis program. It is open source and free.

Download Insight Map Creator from Navico. It is a fee app.

Watch this Youtube video and learn how to georeference Google Earth images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_UQxQpjiI

(I had to replay many times as I could not understand what he wuz saying)


Follow the directions in the Navico Insight manual (pdf).

Take time and learn how to do it. Be patient with yourself.

I finished my mapping of the new Carroll County lake which is nearby. I have it calibrated and it looks good. I used the history clock and went back in time to when they had cleared the land that makes the lake bottom. Just like DI all over the lake.

Took me several editions, but I have a good map now.

Good project and good mind exercise.

This map is now on my HDS. You can see the google clouds.


Here is a link to the lake. This year should be a good year for crappie. The lake is 3 years old.

Carroll County Lake Project

YOU GUYS ARE TOO MUCH FOR THIS SIMPLE MIND BUT I AM GLAD THE FISH I CATCH ARE NOT THAT SMART YET,BUT SCHOOLING NOW SO THEY ARE NEAR TOO SMART FOR ME,LOL .OH WELL I CATCH THOSE THAT SKIP SCHOOL

Canepole can you tell me how to get the map on my hds 10? Or email me the overlay you made for Carroll County Lake?

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Originally Posted by DanaI

Canepole can you tell me how to get the map on my hds 10? Or email me the overlay you made for Carroll County Lake?

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PM me your email address and I will send you the at5 file. You will need to copy it to an sd card and install the sd when you get to the lake. It is just a map file. Plug in the sd, and the map loads. To see the map, you have to zoom to the 200ft range. The lake is tiny compared to the earth.

Can this be done on humminbird as well?

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thanks

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Originally Posted by LowePro

Can this be done on humminbird as well?

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Not that I know of. Ask Rickie or KOZMOS.

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Originally Posted by Cane Pole

Not that I know of. Ask Rickie or KOZMOS.

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This is 1st I've heard of this Qgis program ...

Rickie

It is open source.