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Location: Wausau | I'm seeking advice how to convert Lowrance icons into Lowrance waypoints.
Any help...please.
Edited by agrimm 4/5/2014 11:37 AM
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Location: WI | Are you referring to the type of icon you get when you set a waypoint? You can edit old icons to change there symbols. Like a blue dot into a fish or weeds. I guess I need more info. |
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Location: Wausau | Thanks for seeking more info...I need to convert the older Lowrance LCX icons into Lowrance HDS waypoints so I can then use the Hummingbird program to convert to waypoints
I searched a few other forums and the best I have is a "maybe" if you save the icons on a MMC card in load into a HDS unit, the icons will transfer into waypoints. Then I can save the HDS file will all waypoints.
My huge concern is 90% of my data are icons...not to helpful if only waypoints transfer.
Edited by agrimm 4/5/2014 11:59 AM
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Location: Eastern Ontario | The icons will convert to waypoints if loaded to HDS or Elete series but they will not be titled. my biggest complaint with HDS is loosing the icon feature. |
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Location: Wausau | Thanks again.
I went to local Lowrance shop and tried uploading a few LCX files onto a HDS unit. The icons were listed as a waypoint named icon. I thought this was a good sign. I saved the HDS file and tried to upload to the Humminbird PC program, but received an error message that file was unreadable. Am I missing a step or need to save under a certain HDS format?
Ughhhhh...back to the start. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | If you still have your LCX unit you could try changing your most important icons to waypoints and then trying to import the LCX file to hummingbird. Just try a few to see what happens if you live in the north you have lots of time. |
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Location: WI | There's always loading them one by one manually using lat. and long. Long process but doable. |
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| When I went from Lowrance to bird I converted the waypoints and icons using a free program off the internet called GPS Babel. Before I used that program I couldn't load my data using the free lowrance software or the bird software. |
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| Try exporting as gpx out of the hds then open directly in hbird PC. |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | GPS Babel just did the trick for me. Makes me very happy, Thank you NickD! |
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Location: 31 | I hear you Joe; transferring icons/waypoints can be frustrating...
I had issues transfering waypoints/icons from LCX to HDS... until finding out I had to delete all of the LCX routes/trails before saving them to the SD card.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=97...
Edited by Jerry Newman 9/29/2016 12:38 PM
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