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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Heyis there a way to get waypoints off a lowrance to a humminbird? Is it as easy as Savin them to an sd card and puttin it into the humminbird? |
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| 1) Save the waypoints from your Lowrance to an SD Card.
2) Put the card in your computer and open the waypoints with the HumminbirdPC program. This program is a free download available from their website when you register your Humminbird unit.
3) Follow the program's instructions to convert the waypoints to the Humminbird format and save them back onto an SD card.
4) Load the waypoints into your new Humminbird unit.
5) Be happy.
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Location: Hayward, WI | Can also be done on Navionics Explorer. Really neat program. Has all lake maps and interacts with Google Earth. |
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Location: Central Wi | Is it just as easy to go the other way... Humminbird to Lowrance? |
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Location: Central Wi | I found this from another web site from a post in 2008, would guess not much has changed...
TRANSFER PROCEDURE:
Step 1) Save data from Humminbird unit:
Attach a SD card reader to computer
Insert card in card reader
Save data from Humminbird unit to the MMD/SD card by going to the Main Menu NAV tab and selecting Export All Nav Data.
Step 2) Convert Humminbird waypoint file to GPS Exchange format:
Attach the SD card reader to your PC and place the SD card in the slot
Launch the Humminbird PC software application.
You will see a SD card icon. If you don’t see the card make sure the reader is plugged in and a card is in the reader.
Use the From SD card to PC arrow to transfer the waypoint data from the card.
Once the waypoint data is loaded (displayed) highlight the .gpx file shown in the upper left corner.
Select FILE, SAVE AS and direct it to the SD card (E: drive).
You will now have a .gpx file on the SD card to be used in step 3.
Step 3) Upload Humminbird waypoints to Easy GPS
Open EasyGPS S/W
Select OPEN FOLDER ICON (second from left on tool bar)
Select file saved on Desktop in Step 1
Select SEND Button
“Select a GPS” form will appear
Select “Add GPS” button
Select Lowrance from list on left
Select Unit model from list on right
Connect via file, select OK
Select OK on “Select a GPS” form
Select OK on “Receive from GPS” form
Select OK on “SEND TO GPS” form
Add name of new file to be created to file name line (Lowr_wypts.usr)
Step 4) Upload waypoints to SD card
Transfer Lowr_wypts.usr file to MMD/SD card (You can copy/paste or drag file name to window for Data card reader)
Step 5) Load new waypoints to Lowrance unit
Load MMD/SD card into Lowrance unit
Press Menu, Menu System Setup – Transfer my Data Press Enter button
Select the Load Key.
Highlight your saved file and select Load. |
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Location: Bemidji, MN | I use a free downloadable program called GPSbabel. It will pretty much convert anything to anything, including points from arcgis, which is used by all the DNR agencies.
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