Transferring Co-ordinates - Garmin to Lowrance

[GM-Bluewater]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have information on how to get my co-ordinates from my old Garmin GPSmap 172c onto a Lowrance Elite 9? I love the old Garmin but the screen is on its way out and im heading off on Thursday for 3 weeks and need to transfer my marks.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

[Owen]

You need a serial cable for it
http://narcose29.free.fr/docs/pcwiring.pdf

The drivers for the 172c unit won't work on 64bit windows

Only other option is a card reader (they're special cards)

[scottar]

If you aren't tech savy you may have left it a bit late. As per Owen's post, the easiest way (and possibly the only way now due to the age of the unit) is a serial data interface direct to the PC. If your PC doesn't have a serial port you will also need a suitable USB to serial adaptor and relevant program in the PC. Whereabouts are you located? Someone on here that is near you may have all the gear ready to go.

[GM-Bluewater]

Thanks for the info guys! I think i have left it a bit late, will just have to manually change them over i think. Something to do on a windy day... I can still just see the screen but add some glare and salt spray and it will be difficult!

[honda900]

I actually have a 172, serial connection / power supply if you need it. the data transfer is relatively straight forward.

Regards
Honda.

[GM-Bluewater]

Hi Mate,

Only just got back from Holidays. That would be great if you could assist. The screen is completely rooted now, i managed to grab a few marks off it manually but would be good to get the rest. Where are you located? I have the GPS here but the boat is still at Fraser.

[Bremic]

Any advice on going the other way with waypoints? I have some .LOW files I saved from an old Lowrance that I would like to convert to .GPX. I no longer have the old unit or disks I used to download from the unit to computer.

[scottar]

Any advice on going the other way with waypoints? I have some .LOW files I saved from an old Lowrance that I would like to convert to .GPX. I no longer have the old unit or disks I used to download from the unit to computer.

Humminbird PC program will apparently do it.

[Cape Crusader]

G'day
There's a free program out there gps babel that can do most of the conversations including that one
Cheers
Rod

[Bremic]

Thanks Rod, I couldn't find the ."LOW files as a download option.

Managed to download the Hummingbird software though, which has sorted it out. Marks retrieved and saved.

Thanks for your help Gents, very much appreciated.