LakeMaster Mapping Examples: South Louisiana Aerial Charts

[Doug Vahrenberg]

Southern Louisiana and Coastal Louisiana is a rapidly changing environment. LakeMaster now offers Aerial Imagery of the Coastal and Southern Louisiana marsh, bayous, natural lakes and rivers area. Check out this video of the Louisiana Charts Card and Screen Captures Available to Humminbird Owners now.

Video:



Examples:

Venice, Buras and Mississippi River Delta Region













Lake Cataouache (Where KVD Won BASSmaster Classic)



Bayou Black





Atchafalya Region

[KG_LA05]

Have you heard of any issues with this card? the land coverage on mine is red.

[teampps]

Does anyone know how this chip is over by Orange, Texas and east of there?

[LittleGazoo]

Sweet. . .

You show high altitude looking around screen views. And at a point you seemed to fail when really attempting to zoom in close. Is this a limitation?
And how is the resolution when you zoom in more. Maybe, zoom in close on the marina docks in pic#6.

[MichAngler]

Good to see you posting again!

[jcdogfish]

The south LA card is adequate at best, not very clear and zoom is limited. Mine is red too, is this the only option? I can't figure out why you can't get a good HD map for the birds like the standard mapping chip that only works with lowrance and a couple of others. HB is missing a lot of market in South LA because of the poor mapping there. Went from gen 3's to the humminbirds. I fish Toledo Bend and south LA. I'm probably going back to the Lowrance units because of the mapping.

[jcdogfish]

BUMP.........Anyone know why these maps are showing up bright red. Does it on all 3 units I have, Helix 10 and 898's.

[cards21]

BUMP.........Anyone know why these maps are showing up bright red. Does it on all 3 units I have, Helix 10 and 898's.

Do you have a picture? What is your shallow depth highlight set at?

[jcdogfish]

I have changed depth highlights, no difference. Its shows the land bright red. I will install the latest software and see what that does.

[jcdogfish]

Latest software still land shows up red

[jcdogfish]

UPDATE! KG,,Just got off the phone with Humminbird. They loaded the card in units there and it is red also. Looks like that's just the way its gonna be. Still wondering how Dougs shows up correctly. The red makes it a lot harder to put different color trails, waypoints etc in. and see them clearly. I'm going to update my navionics gulf of mexico card and see how that does. If not, here I come Lowrance...........again.

[LittleGazoo]

What map format are the HB aerial photo files?

Lowrance is using Navico's AT5 format, therefore the map folder contains numerous files named xxxx.AT5.

[Doug Vahrenberg]

Humminbird LakeMaster Satellite Imagery for the LA Coastal Card now highlights the Land and non-water in red to make it easier to view. I have had the chance to use this card on both the Atchafalaya Basin Area and West Louisiana and East Texas around Orange, Texas and here are a few images that show the advantages of the new highlight and details.

You can see here it highlight each individual Cypress Tree



Here is shot from West Texas in Taylor Bayou near Port Arthur and still had coverage



Henderson Lake is top of coverage near I-10

[Bob B]

Doug Who ??? !!! Welcome back.

[Doug Vahrenberg]

Here is a couple comparisons that show why LakeMaster added the Red Highlight to make it easier to quickly see the difference between land & water... Sure makes it easy to find the Run Outs too!

[Doug Vahrenberg]

Here is Coverage in East Texas around Port Arthur and Orange from the same Louisiana Card plus it adds offshore chart data: Red Highlight is Current Version





Taylor Bayou Area and shows the accuracy of the Aerial Charts

[Doug Vahrenberg]

Bayou Black & Venice Area and How Red Highlight can help distinguish the Land Quickly

[Doug Vahrenberg]

East Louisiana Coverage Example and how the Red Highlight helps enhance the land

[LittleGazoo]

Still curious what aerial image format Humminbird uses? Could someone look in the SD-card's aerial image folder for the file-types?

[Rick1067]

Doug, tried to PM you a question but your PM’s are full. Please PM me.