home-made maps for eagle/lowrance

[Ozie_3]

so... ive got an eagle 642C with a navionics australia gold card... its the whole australian coast and wide... but nothing from a few miles inland...and i want impoundments shown....

ive had a shot at making maps and did ok with leslie and connolly in my trial version of OziExplorer...but it dosent support eagles....

so i need software that i can create maps readable on the eagle or something that can convert the OziExplorer ones..

can anyone help with info please....

the other thing, can anyone tell me how to create a trail on the compuetr... or convert a a route into a trail....i made routes around the green zones but they dont show up on the screen unless im navigating them, driven round a couple and saved the trails of that in green...but thats a little inacurate and kinda sloppy... i use GDM6 but its very limited

i have been searching posts in the forums and googling the www.. but to no avail unless i lived in america

i do tend to fish close (real close at times) to a couple of green zones but don't want to break the rules.....

and as for the mapping ive just bought a kayak and want to fish the impoundments within driving range and would like the outline at least on my screen..

thanks in advance

[Ozie_3]

I had really hoped someone could help out with this.... there must be someone out there fishing impoundments or skinny water and using a GPS with maps ....No ??

please

[Lovey80]

I can't help you with the maps mate but why do you want to go around the green zones? They're no take not no nav? Or am I misunderstanding something in your post.

Cheers

Chris

[Ozie_3]

having the green zones marked so as to not fish inside them... but on the edge...
also some like peel island are a go-slow zone as well
handy to have all that visible on the plotter

[myusernam]

you can use a program called oziexplorer to load any map (I have digital copies of the army ones) or you can scan whatever you want and load onto a garmin (don't know what else) gps. if you look on the website you can see. also i think lowrance sell their software called mapcreate which i guess allows you to create maps but i've never looked into it.

[Ozie_3]

still not found anything yet, so i thought id bump this and see if anyone can help now....


hoping

[FishHunter]

GPSbabel will convert almost any gps file to almost any other gps format.

[greenie61]

Try this one & see if it works.

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/