Wayneman Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Hey guys, glad i found this site! Getting back into bass fishing. I am stumped on something and can't find the answer. I have Lowrance gen 2 electronics. I want to be able to go back in history on Google earth and place pins and transfer them as waypoints on my graphs. I've heard yes it can be done and no it can't. If it can I'd be willing to pay for lessons. I don't get much fishing time and trying to optimize what little time I have. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountainman Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 I'm by no means a technology guru, but......I could see it working by using a WiFi network & connecting your unit to Google Earth. However, I see issues in overlaying Google mapping onto your units internal mapping. I'd suggest calling lowrance directly & see what they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31Airborne Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 You'd have to have a link to a search capability that would enable you to retrieve then display archived data. The microprocessor on your Lowrance units is certainly robust enuff to do this. I just don't know if there is code embedded in the unit to allow you to do this. Maybe a call to the Lowrance customer service people will help you??? As for pinning and registering WPs, there is a manual entry mode for these. You can also add/transfer them using an SD card. May require you to store them in an intermediate medium (like iCloud). Not hard. You'll find how-to info on the Lowrance site. There are prob 100s of You-toobs on how to do this if you're a visual learner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzebackhuntr Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 There’s a mapping card (I wanna say platinum) that you can overlay google satellite view onto your graph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 I use Google earth to get the Long/Lat numbers and the manually enter them into a free program called EasyGPS. Once entered into that I can download them to an SD card and import them into my HDS Gen2 or 3. If its just one or two you can manually enter them into the HDS2 or 3. Hope this helps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayneman Posted September 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Thanks a bunch Gents! I have some homework to do. Tight lines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHTN Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 12 hours ago, bronzebackhuntr said: There’s a mapping card (I wanna say platinum) that you can overlay google satellite view onto your graph. My old Navionics card did indeed have the satellite overlay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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