Looking in the area I generally fly to I'm see some other have shared as well so I see this as a good thing for the future. Learn how to share your Quickdraw Contours maps in Quickdraw Community on Garmin Connect: Data can be uploaded through a Marine Profile in Garmin Connect, and once uploaded, will typically be available on the web for download within 24 hours. When looking at the quickdraw site its putting the basics up but when you down load some to your unit it comes up with a far better contour map. I put all the data from both my fly ins last year up and will do again this year if I'm lucky enough to go again. I think it will be a cool thing for the fly in people once a better amount of mapping gets shared through the quickdraw community and you can download some to have a head start on trip planning all ready on your sonar unit. Another feature I used on the map was changing the depth shading colours so I could target a certain depth and a quick glance at the sonar would tell me if I was in the the right area. When trolling it was constantly creating a cool map. I found last year on the 14ft camp boat with the 9.9 I was fine at full speed until the depths were over 40 ft then I seemed to lose the mapping but I expected that. They say anything under 10kms will give you the most accurate mapping and I'd agree with that from what I see using it. I'm finding a lot of changes and there not even close.Īs mentioned the speed travelling sure makes a difference on the sonar creating a real accurate defined maps. If your device does not have WiFi technology, you can access the Garmin Quickdraw Community using the Garmin Connect website. You'd do the same with the saved Lowrance sounding logs afterwards - the same ways but online.Īs I said - a pain for both - but can be done.Nice to see a few people using the new technology and as mentioned the difference between the government supplied charts and the real thing is amazing. You can download Garmin Quickdraw Contours maps that other users have created and shared with the Garmin Quickdraw Community. in the field - using Garmin - you will need to print-off a tide chart and manually change the offset ev 5-20minutes. See 93sv screen & Active Captain screen notice on far left & right waypoints show up on both, but contours only show up on 93sv screen. Garmin Support Center is where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and resources to help with all of your Garmin products. I am having the smae problem I am using Active Captain to upload my Quickdraw contours, but the contours I have uploaded this year dont show up only my waypoints seem to get uploaded. FREE GROUND SHIPPING ON ORDERS 25 AND UP. In other words - use a tide graph as your lake offset. View Quickdraw Contours in the ActiveCaptain App Garmin Customer Support. The reson: the tide only changes so much during the shorter time frames and you want to match the offset to the current time. With both units - I would recommend saving using shorter time frames (5-10minutes around mid tides, and 15-20 around the highs/lows) - before changing the offsets and/or restarting the logging of the sounding transects. On the Garmin you set it on the unit as you go - with the Lowrance you apply it afterwards on short time segments when saved as sonar logs & uploaded afterwards. With Garmin & Lowrance you can set offests (originally designed to deal with fluctuating lake levels). When they get the bugs worked out of panoptix for the saltwater angler, it will be Garmin for the win,Ĭlick to expand.Both Garmin & Lowrance's mapping are pains in the you-know when it comes to tides, IMHO MAtt. It was a factor in my Garmin choice too, and I'm glad I have it. Uploading your personal maps of secret ling holes to the public community in the cloud just seems funny to me, so needless to say my stuff isn't up there. Also best to do your mapping when swell is low and wind waves are not hostile. You'd want to map a contiguous structure all in one episode, as tidal height differences would introduce some weird artifacts if you mapped places at different tidal heights. There is a learning curve to data entry on it. FWIW I think it is a tool mainly for bottom fishing habitat (lings esp) in my hands. While it probably isn't directly responsible for putting any more meat in my freezer, I do think it's helpful if you're a map detail guy, or just interested in over-thinking it on occasion. It's actually pretty kickass, and can really add some granular detail to complex bottom structure. I've used it to map out some interesting reefs that I fish, where the detail is lacking on conventionally available charts (garmin's base map, navionics, noaa, etc). I've been playing around with QuickDraw for a couple years on my 7612xsv.
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