Do you manually input Fishing Marks into your sounder? What do you use to manage and store GPS data.

[Hweebe]

Hi All,

Picked up @GregOug old HDS-7 live and helping him get all his marks onto the new sounder.

This has got me thinking what Software or Apps are people using to save/backup/manage their fishing GPS marks.

I've used Google Earth, Insight Planner (no longer available), ExpertGPS.

Need something that works with Navionics maps (therefore Garmin Homeport is out)

Cheers

Hweebe

[ellicat]

I haven't used it yet, but @crazywalrus put me onto GPSBabel.

https://www.gpsbabel.org/

 

[dmck]

OziExplorer.  Not free but bloody brilliant.

Have been using it for fishing and work(in a mining company) for nearly 30 years.

[Hweebe]

Does either app allow you to view water depths / contours?

[benno573]

If I had marks I really wanted to keep I would write them down in a notebook and email them to myself as well. That way if the unit had an emotional problem I could manually upload them into a new unit. Old school tech, free and effective

[GregOug]

2 minutes ago, benno573 said:

If I had marks I really wanted to keep I would write them down in a notebook and email them to myself as well. That way if the unit had an emotional problem I could manually upload them into a new unit. Old school tech, free and effective

If only we had a mark we wanted to keep.

[Drop Bear]

I have put them in manually. The ones from Harvey bay were done like that. 

It's pretty fast and works well. 

 

[ellicat]

12 hours ago, Hweebe said:

Does either app allow you to view water depths / contours?

I don't believe so. GPSBabel allows you to dump the waypoints into a spreadsheet though. It also allows you to upload marks to a SD card, thus eliminating the need to do it manually. Also you can change the name of marks which is handy.

[GregOug]

20 hours ago, Hweebe said:

Hi All,

Picked up @GregOug old HDS-7 live and helping him get all his marks onto the new sounder.

This has got me thinking what Software or Apps are people using to save/backup/manage their fishing GPS marks.

I've used Google Earth, Insight Planner (no longer available), ExpertGPS.

Need something that works with Navionics maps (therefore Garmin Homeport is out)

Cheers

Hweebe

Hi Hweebe,

Just use the Navionics Boating app on your computer. It shows you the same as you see on your sounder with the Navionics Platinum Plus card installed. You can add marks, delete them etc then download to a micro so card for transfer to your chart plotter.

cheers

Greg

[tugger]

I got the Navionics HD app brilliant on large devices like tablets or iPads and you can share between devices so I have it on my phone, my son's phone and my Samsung 10inch tablet all on the 1 subscription. It automatically sends our marks between devices would not be without now.

[dmck]

On 18/03/2021 at 10:18 PM, Hweebe said:

Does either app allow you to view water depths / contours?

As you load your own charts in to OziExplorer, whatever depth contours the chart shows are there for you to see.  

Ozi EX was developed to use survey style maps... so its VG on those.