by Peter Bennett <peterbb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 31, 2008 at 06:58 PM
On Sat, 31 May 2008 13:57:55 -0700 (PDT), jimloveys@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>Hi All;
>
>I bought a Hummibird Matrix 67 chartplotter/sonor a couple of years
>ago only to find out that there aren't any maps available for our
>inland lakes here in Nova Scotia, making the GPS capability useless.
>Humminbird also doesn't provide any info on other compatible programs
>even though there are a number of topo programs available (I have a
>Magellan handheld with good topo maps). Anyone out there in cyberspace
>aware of anything compatible with my unit or a way one can be
>converted for it?
As a general rule, the only maps/charts that can be uploaded to a
GPS/Chartplotter are those produced by the maker of that plotter
(although I understand that there may be some labour-intensive
work-arounds for some makes.)
--
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter
Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca
