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[QUOTE]kirth - 10/22/2015  9:19 PM

[QUOTE]jlong - 10/16/2015  1:50 PM

Well, I upgraded my electronics to Lowrance HDS Gen 2 and Gen 3 Touch units.  With that upgrade, I had to say goodbye to my LakeMaster mapping chips. Started researching my options... and gotta say.... the mapping chip situation is "off the charts" so to speak.  Holy confusing.  Nothing is compatible anymore... and the varying degrees of accuracy and detail are rather frustrating. So, those of you that have been running these units in WI, MN, and Ontario.... what have you found to be the best option in regard to a Map Chip?  I'm leaning towards just playing it safe with the Navionics Premium Hotmap North chip.... but feel that I'd be missing out on something "better".  What have you guys found to be the best option?Thanks for your input. [/QUOTE]

You can preview mapping on the Navionics Web App all of Navionics mapping is on the web app preview. After you zoom in click on the sonar icon on the lower left corner fro the high def SonarCharts layer available on Nav + 
http://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#@6&key=ssooGzmbxP

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Posted 10/22/2015 9:19 PM (#789824 - in reply to #788843)
Subject: RE: Map Chip Madness

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jlong - 10/16/2015 1:50 PM

Well, I upgraded my electronics to Lowrance HDS Gen 2 and Gen 3 Touch units. With that upgrade, I had to say goodbye to my LakeMaster mapping chips. Started researching my options... and gotta say.... the mapping chip situation is "off the charts" so to speak. Holy confusing. Nothing is compatible anymore... and the varying degrees of accuracy and detail are rather frustrating. So, those of you that have been running these units in WI, MN, and Ontario.... what have you found to be the best option in regard to a Map Chip? I'm leaning towards just playing it safe with the Navionics Premium Hotmap North chip.... but feel that I'd be missing out on something "better". What have you guys found to be the best option?Thanks for your input.

I would highly rec. the Navionics + with the High Def SonarCharts layer, Premium only has Nautical charts which lacks the detail of SonarCharts layer. It is a map card that comes preloaded with Nautical Charts layer you download the high Def SonarCharts layer of the areas you fish. One card will cover all of US and Canada. If you have your units networked together via ethernet you can share the map card between units. You also can do depth contour highlighting with Navionics.

You can preview mapping on the Navionics Web App all of Navionics mapping is on the web app preview. After you zoom in click on the sonar icon on the lower left corner fro the high def SonarCharts layer available on Nav +
http://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#@6&key=ssooGzmbxP