I have a NAVIONICS hot maps premium East card. I also use a Macbook as a computer. I had the understanding that you could put the card in your computer slot and read the card. When I do it seems to know what is on the card (28 lakes) but can't open them to read them. I don't know what program opens up the extension used on the card. Anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be appreciated. John
You need to buy NavPlanner2. It comes with a Navionics compatible card reader. Be careful using non compatible devices the card is copy protected and you can easily wipe them out.
Mark from NY over on the Lowrance board will know .See how fast he is .
Thanks guys,
Will the navplanner work on an (Apple)Macbook? I only saw PC or Microsoft compatible
Navionics NavPlanner 2 is for Windows XP, Vista, 7. No Mac OS X version. In fact, I am pretty sure there is not a single Mac program in existence that installs off a DVD and then reads in Navionics cards. There is a web based Navionics browser experience that does things with a Navionics card... go to the Navionics.com web page while your card is inserted, click the Freshest Data link, and you may be able to get that working for you.
Of course, many Mac users get the Virtual Computing software "Parallels for Mac" or "Fusion" by VMWare... so they run a variety of Windows software "underneath" the Mac so to speak. And it works pretty good, I've done it: you can use NavPlanner 2 in the virtual Windows environment and it will see the Navionics card and read it in. Sometimes you have to coax the virtual computer to see any USB device, but eventually you can always make it work.
Another alternative is to get Mac software like MacENC and then feed it for-pay download versions of charts hosted on X-Traverse.com. But this combination still does not read in the Navionics SD or CF card, not an included feature.
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