Navionics MARINE AND LAKES for Android

[CAMAN]

Thank you, I see it now, had the wall organized by "Top Posts" not "Most Recent"

[CAMAN]

Just redownloaded VNP and it looks like they have fixed it for the most part. The contours are a bit choppy compared to the old app but is worlds better than the previous map.

Old App

New App

[SneakyPete]

Have you noticed how much harder it is to read the contour numbers?

I noticed Vermillion got the upgrade, Lake-uh-da-woods did not. Kabintogamama works again, I thought Superior was better before but that could be my imagination.

[SneakyPete]

...good to see progress being made.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I wish you had more choices in safety depth settings on these apps. I suggested they improve that by making them in 5 foot increments.

[spotty]

Does anybody know if there is a way to be able to view the map pictures on a computer with this app?

[BartmanMN]

Figured I'd post this down here too.

I have very good news about the High Def maps for LOW on the Mobile Navionics App. I sent Navionics a question why the North chip had the HD contours for LOW, but the Mobile application did not. Here is their response.

Todd,

Thank you for contacting Navionics. The Navionics Mobile application is a combination of both the Marine database and the HotMaps freshwater database. There are some areas that are duplicated on both types of charts such as Lake of the Woods. Currently the default view is the Marine database. This is going to be changed this month. Unfortunately I do not have a specific time-frame but at the end of the month, beginning of next month reload the map for the area and please advise me if you do not see this change.

[SneakyPete]

Good to hear we will see the return of LOW.

Hey, look at the screenshots caman posted above. Notice how many fewer numbers there are. While maybe this isn't a big super common problem but I noticed places on the Minnetonka map where there were a boatload of contour lines but little or no numbers.

Hmmm...

[SneakyPete]

I wish you had more choices in safety depth settings on these apps. I suggested they improve that by making them in 5 foot increments.

My new Lakemaster chip lets you highlight shallow water RED and do it in 1 foot increments. That ought to save a prop or two... I bet Navionics will do something similar very soon.

[SneakyPete]

This is what I mean by areas without numbers:

[DTro]

Do you have any overlays turned on, Sneaky? That is some sort of bug and will make the numbers disappear.

[SneakyPete]

Nope, no overlays. Zoomed all the way in on a

Minnetonka bay.

[CAMAN]

FYI there is an update in the market right now. It looks like it fixes the map overlay issue and it also gives you the option to display track up instead of just north up. They also give you the option to delete lakemaps from your device.

[SneakyPete]

FYI there is an update in the market right now. It looks like it fixes the map overlay issue and it also gives you the option to display track up instead of just north up. They also give you the option to delete lakemaps from your device.

Apparently when I fired-up Ice Cream Sammich' on my phone and re-downloaded the program I got the update. Caman, go to your view of the Namakan/Wolf Islands and turn on Satellite overlay. See how the deeper water and contour lines get covered by satellite image. The fix keeps the numbers with overlay but seems to open a new issue (maybe just on border waters?).

Dtro: The screenshot above is from after the update. There just aren't any numbers there...

[CAMAN]

Without Map overlay

With Map overlay

The deeper areas are darker, but I actually like how it is now.

What Marine & Lakes: USA version are you running Pete? I've got 2.2

[SneakyPete]

Oh, and looking in marketplace I see the return of North and South (the old apps I had purchased). Not sure when that happened...

[SneakyPete]

Turn on satellite...

[CAMAN]

Okay, now I see it. Won't really bother me much though, as I don't use satellite overlay.

[SneakyPete]

I'm running version 2.2 also. I'm also running on Ice Cream Sandwich. Here is what it looks like with Satellite turned on:

[SneakyPete]

Yeah, I don't use satellite either. You KNOW it will bug someone though. I checked it on Minnetonka and it didn't seem to do it so maybe it really is just a border lakes issue...

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

So is this app working correctly yet?

[CAMAN]

Better than ever! Just the very minor satellite overlay issue mentioned a couple posts back.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

So the VNP lakes work now?

[SneakyPete]

So the VNP lakes work now?

They seem to be. If you look at the screenshots on this page you'll see that the contour lines are not very smooth. Personally I think it makes the maps harder to read. That and there seem to be a lot less numbers, text, and markers for things like rocks.

Have a look at the screenshot above that shows a part of Minnetonka with no numbers at all. I'm finding lots of areas with many contour lines and few numbers. No way I could keep track of things when bobbing around in my little boat.

Several of the screenshots above are from Namakan so you can get and idea of what to expect. Oh, don't expect tight contours on the Canadian side.

I still prefer the maps in the old app. The new app has some features that are really nice though.

Hopefully the maps are a work in progress and will continue to get better.

[Kyhl]

Have you installed the last update?

Before the last update the details and depth numbers were missing with an overlay turned on. Now they work perfectly.

I spent the morning on the couch watching fishing shows while searching Vermilion.