MapCreate 6.3 being covered up by Fishing Hot Spots Elite

[ScottND]

I've got a new:

iFinder H20 (ver. 1.4),

MapCreate 6.3,

Fishing Hot Spots Elite North card,

The problem is that I've created a topo/street map with 6.3 and loaded it on the FHSE-N card. Any area the lake maps use as boundaries won't show the topo/street info but outside the lake map boundaries it's perfect.

If this makes sense to you and if anyone has the same setup with the same problem I'd like to know. I've been working with a person at Lowrance but they just don't seem to get what I'm talking about.

[dockehr]

ScottND, do I understand your post to mean that you loaded your MapCreate data onto your FHS Elite card rather than a blank SD/MMC card? You should never write anything to a pre-loaded card. If this indeed is the case you may have to somehow get Lowrance to reformat your FHS Elite card and purchase blank SD/MMC cards to download your MapCreate data to. The iFinderH2O can only take enhaced information off of the card that's in the unit. Remove the card and replace it with another card that has different information will result in the original information being replaced by the enhanced information of the second card. Hope this helps.

dockehr

Dr. Roland E. Kehr,Jr.

Lindy Tackle

[gizmoguy]

If you loaded a map on a hot spots card you just wrecked it. There's no going back. Plenty of warnings not to format the pre-loaded card.

[ScottND]

No...actually that is why they make the card so much bigger than the maps size. It's so you can load your created maps from MapCreate and store waypoints. routes, etc. The card is not wrecked, because you can easily delete unwanted files from the card and still leave the map files perfectly intact and usable.

[dockehr]

Scott, I have many different preprogrammed chips for Lowrance units including LakeMaster, Lowrance FreedomMaps, LowranceTopo and Navionics and none of them allow you to write data to them. That being said, and since I don't have the FHS Elite by Lowrance, perhaps your "problem" is not with trying to write waypoints and routes to your FHS chip but with trying to copy a MapCreate map to the chip. The map areas preprogrammed on the chip takes precedence over the basemap stored in the unit AND the MapCreate map that you've written to the chip. Try creating some waypoints on bodies of water covered by the FHS Elite map chip, load them onto the FHS Elite chip and see if they show up on your unit. I have seen this same "problem" with my Garmin unit when I would scroll from an area covered by one of their chips onto the original basemap! Let us know what happens when and if you try my suggestion.

dockehr

Dr. Roland E. Kehr, Jr.

Lindy Tackle

[ScottND]

dockehr

There's a little more to this than I can discuss on the forum as it's quite involved.

[Fireguy]

With my navionics card I have to change the map data to the file on the card that I want to use. The h20 can only read one file at a time from the card. The files should show up under the map data menu.

[ScottND]

I found the right person at Lowrance to look at what's happening. I will update when I hear back from them.