GPS Coord Transfer

[lindy rig]

Any idea if I can get the coordinates from my old Garmin transferred to my Lowrance H20c? I read both manuals and couldn't find anything.

[bigbad401]

By hand! I am not sure if the file extensions from each are compatible with the other. I don't believe they are, so manually is probably the only way to go.

[Macgyver55]

Use The Easy GPS program. Download from one and upload to the other.

[bigbad401]

Very good to hear that there is a program out there that will do this. Disregard my prior post!

[MN Mike]

Do you have a data cord for your old Garmin?

If so, should be no problem at all with either EasyGPS or GPSTrackmaker, both are free programs off of the web. I would recommend gpstrackmaker, you can download the way points from your Garmin, then do a SAVE FILE AS and output that file in a Lowrance format, put that file on your SD / MMC card and then put that card into your H2O and import ( if that's how it works with the H2O ).

Mike

[walleyewild]

You'll need a converter program, there was a thread a few weeks ago as to a couple of programs to use.

Here's the rhread

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubb...er_#Post2081788

[lindy rig]

I do have the data cord for my old Garmin (just the cord that hooks up to the computer anyways)

My Lowrance did not come with a cord to hook it up to the computer. I did buy the Lakemaster chip. Is there another type of chip inside that is removable? How do I then get the info from my computer to that chip?

Thanks guys

[MN Mike]

Hopefully someone that has imported waypoints into a H2O will chime in here, I've only done it with a GlobalMap 3300c and I don't know how different they are.

Do you have a blank SD card ( doesn't need to be very big ) and a SD Card reader? either on a USB device or in a printer? If so, when you SAVE FILE AS in the gpstrackmaker program, you can point the SAVE TO path to that SD Card and it will drop those waypoints onto the card itself right there. This is also the same area where you will tell it to save the data in a Lowrance format.

From here I get lost on the directions and hopefully someone can help out on getting those waypoints into the H2O but you should either be able to put the card in and fire it up, the GPS might see new data and ask to import it or you need to get into the menu system and tell the gps to import the waypoints from the SD card.

Hopefully someone can help out better than I can on the import process.

Mike

[lindy rig]

Thanks Mike. I think that makes sense now.

I guess I need a blank SD card. My digital camera has one, not sure if they are the same. Also, my computer does not have a SD reader. It does have USB ports in which I use a flash drive to transport digital pics, ect.

I guess once I figure out how to get the data from the computer to this said SD card, I should be able to load it on the H2O without issue (knock on wood)

[MN Mike]

When you plug in your digital camera and open MY COMPUTER, do you see a REMOVABLE DEVICE E:\ ( could be another letter, not necessarily E ) ?

If you do, you might be in luck!

If you don't, a person can purchase those card readers for not a whole lot of money $15 - $20 or so.

Another way to do it is to save the file in MY DOCUMENTS as a Lowrance file, then email it to yourself or someone that does have a SD reader and then use their reader to place that file on your card.

Lots of different ways to do it.

Mike