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[CamoHunter]

I'm sorry if this has been covered already.
If i create a map with AC, I understand I need the ZL-card to view that map on a Humminbird-unit. But does that card need to have the map transferred directly from the PC with AC? The reason I'm asking is that I want to put AC-maps from my region online so any Humminbird-owner can use them. That idea will not work if there is any sort of encryption aside from the end user needing a ZL-card to download to.

That was my understanding of how it works. It could be different now though.
Other way to accomplish sharing, would be to just share the edited .acd files you used to create your map. Other users would just import your .acd files, and create the map in their program to upload to AutoChart SD card.

[Team Colibri]

That was my understanding of how it works. It could be different now though.
Other way to accomplish sharing, would be to just share the edited .acd files you used to create your map. Other users would just import your .acd files, and create the map in their program to upload to AutoChart SD card.

Great, thanks for answering. I have Autochart on the way, so guess I`ll find out for myself in a few days as well. :)
Those other users will not hace AC, just the ZL-card. There are about 80 guys in this project sharing data, at this point we make maps for 58 lakes here in Norway.

[CamoHunter]

Great, thanks for answering. I have Autochart on the way, so guess I`ll find out for myself in a few days as well. :)
Those other users will not hace AC, just the ZL-card. There are about 80 guys in this project sharing data, at this point we make maps for 58 lakes here in Norway.

I don't think you can just copy the map from one card to another. I believe it is tied to the serial # on the card.
It might be possible, I just haven't had luck doing that with my two ZLCs.

So, the way you could share data between everyone, would be to share all the .acd data files.
Best thing would be to have them all saved somewhere online, and share the link with everyone. Or just have one person be the 'mapping expert' and be the one everyone sends their recordings to for processing in AutoChart.

It's not extremely easy to share maps with AutoChart, but doable for sure.

The other issue though, is that AutoChart maps are only readable on Humminbird depthfinders. Do all 80 people have Humminbirds?
AutoChart can now import some other file types, but .sl2 logs from Lowrance would still need to be converted to another data type before they could be imported into AutoChart.

Just letting you know you'll have a few things to sort out.