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nuvi with lakemaster chip?

low277

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I just bought a 1490lt this afternoon to use with my Garmin LakeMaster chip. I plan on mounting it to my ATV. You can zoom in pretty good. Scrolling around is kinda goofy, smartphones work better. But I don't want to mount my iPhone on my ATV.

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I just bought a 1490lt this afternoon to use with my Garmin LakeMaster chip. I plan on mounting it to my ATV. You can zoom in pretty good. Scrolling around is kinda goofy, smartphones work better. But I don't want to mount my iPhone on my ATV.

Found out that using my fingernail or a stylus worked better than using my finger. I can move around it very well now. I am currently copying over my existing waypoints from MapSource into the nuvi.

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I have the NUVI 500 and love it. Take it in the truck and then put it on the 4 wheeler with a ram mount and no problem in 3 years now. I can zoom in on any part of the lake. I got the CD lakemaster so I can plan things out on the computer at home and transfer it all to the NUVI when I have spots picked out.

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I also have the nuvi500 (waterproof) i use it both in summer fishing and winter ice fishing. zoom works just as good as with any other portable gps i've seen/used. Touch screen works well, having a stylus does help but is kinda a pain to carry around. Screen size is nice, wouldn't complain though if it was a little bigger.... say 5" that would be nice. Overall I like it and would purchase again if something happened to my current Nuvi500

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Hoey,

Which Nuvi do you have?

2 things to check

1. Make sure you have the latest updates from Garmin, they are free software upgrades.

2. There is a MAPS area in your menu, make sure the Lakemaster data is checkmarked if it is listed there, uncheck any other maps.

One last thing, it has to be a Garmin Lakemaster chip.

Mike

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I did download it on a micro sd card and put it in the nuvi. After that I just plug the nuvi into the computer and transfer the way points between the two. That way I can save them all on the computer also. I'm not sure if you can use the card in more than one unit but you can put the cd on more than one computer. I have it on two computers.

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Smoker, Can you put the information on a micro sd card from the cd and put it in the Nuvi to use the next day? How many units can you use the cd version on?

Can only be used on one unit. I believe you can put it on a chip. But that chip is tied to the Garmin unit you registered the CD with during your install.

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Mike,

Thanks for the recommendation. I spent two hours with Tim and Cabelas last night. The guy knows a lot. HumminBird now owns LakeMaster. LakeMaster chips are now only available for HumminBirds.. HumminBird offers no hand-held units. Bummer as only half of my old Lawrance H2O screen works - so I need a different GPS solution for ice fishing, in the truck, on the ATV, on the Snowmobile, etc... Thinking a console, type mount with a built-in antenna would be nice, but too bulky for ATV/Snowmobile, but usable as a flasher and useable from the boat in summer.

So a NUVI solution would be nice. Thanks again.

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Hey guys I was searching the garmin site and i saw that they had there minnesota lake maps cd on sale for 50. I have a nuvi 200/205 is it worth it?

I've got a 250 which is basically the same as your 200/205 and it works very good for giving you reference to where you are in relation to to the depths ( I've got a Lakemaster Woods / Rainy chip ), navigating to a waypoint is a little more difficult than a handheld or a Nuvi 500 but you can do it.

If you plan on keeping and using the Nuvi for a while, I think it's worth it, if you think there might be a possibility of an upgrade in the future, I would probably use the CD on that instead...... reason being the battery life of a handheld is much better and navigating to a waypoint is easier.

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Mike,

It is a 350 with software updated earlier this year.

Keith

That 350 is a slightly different than my 250 but there should be an area in there that references to MAP DATA or MAP INFO.

On my 250, from the main page its, TOOLS> SETTINGS> MAP> MAP INFO That gives me a list of maps loaded on my Nuvi 250, whether it's a internal map or data on a MicroSD card, then you just checkmark which map you want.

Mike

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