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It was marked as a road, however, and not a trail, so I'll need to take my GPS and see where exactly the trail starts. I was able to locate an obscure rural road that I fish near pretty quickly and it's map location seemed accurate.I also searched for a hiking trail that I use occassionaly and it too showed up on the map. The local roads both urban and rural seemed pretty good as well.
I played around with it for a little while and found it to be interesting. The contour lines seem accurate. I just received this GPS mapping software.
The port locations also seemed accurate. There are a lot of back roads in the area so we'll see.All in all it seems like a good investment with good mappping detail and capabilities. I haven't tried map creation yet but I'm sure it will be a great tool for my Lowrance iFinder Expedition c.
The lake detail of the Great Lakes specifically Lake Erie seems very good.
Garmin topo map is a much finer program with finer and has more detail and the program can do a lot more so i my openion garmin has a better program.Don For the money i think the progrsm should hsve more detail in the map detail such as water depths etc.
Even then, it cannot do large maps at one time. Also, appears to require a special card reader to limit # of MMC/SD cards used.
My device has a newer version than available upgrade on the website. Pretty lame attempt to limit people copying maps for others.The website is not great either for updates, etc.
Software is not that great. Will occasionallly lock up anyway.
Had to install an upgrade just to get it to work w/o crashing/hanging up (on Win XP).
thus you have to make several smaller ones which just takes more time.
You need to save map before you transfer it to the chip. I think it was user error. The map detail is not as detailed as my Navionics Hot Maps Premium chip used in a newer gps/depthfinder, but the lowrance LCX15 would not except that chip and called for the one made by Map Create. Map Create 7 is easier to use than previous models because everything is on one CD. There was some confusion getting the map border that I chose to the SD card.
1 of the 2 new readers didn't work at all and the second one worked for a couple of months and now it's dead. 6.3. I purchased version 7 after buying a Lowrance 540c. I asked around and found out that this has been a problem all the way back when they released ver. I like the 540c but would have purchased another brand GPS if I knew how poor Lowrance software was going to be with there reader. I've had nothing but problems with the supplied card reader. I sent it to Lowrance for repair and after a couple of weeks they sent me 2 new card readers at no charge.
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