Navionics charting questions - need help with charting?

[JDFishing]

Thanks Andre! Lots of good stuff in that video.

[grout-scout]

Those were good videos; but they are with outdated antiquated graphs.

Imagine how many views a new video using a gen3 and the super secretive tricky depth shading would get!


Prostaff/Tommy, you need to erase a few PM's because your box is full. Its almost not fair for you to not share it with everybody else.

[wallyandre]

Those were good videos; but they are with outdated antiquated graphs.

Imagine how many views a new video using a gen3 and the super secretive tricky depth shading would get!


Prostaff/Tommy, you need to erase a few PM's because your box is full. Its almost not fair for you to not share it with everybody else.

I knew they were "outdated" but there is a lot in it that are still valuable for a new Platinium user.

[prostaff1]

Those were good videos; but they are with outdated antiquated graphs.

Imagine how many views a new video using a gen3 and the super secretive tricky depth shading would get!


Prostaff/Tommy, you need to erase a few PM's because your box is full. Its almost not fair for you to not share it with everybody else.

I cleaned out the inbox last week so an incredible amount of good things going on...but getting to be too much for me to keep up.
Driven over 500 miles today and about the same last week and most of the weeks since January... Todays events including FANTASTIC Bass Pro Pyramid Memphis. What a cool place. Been there many times and it always makes me smile walking in. Amazing.
I have some major Marine electronics events and projects (some Prostaff, some personal) coming up now and consuming the next couple of months, including getting my boat in the water a LOT more often, so I will have even less time here.
Tommy
Prostaff Lowrance/Navico
Prostaff Marine Specialist/Navionics

[fishin couillon]

Ok, my turn for a question.......got the navionics platinum plus card using it in a 10 Gen 2 and 7 Touch. I know the photo overlay and shading worked when i got the card. A guy in my club was asking me how to get it the photo overlay to show up and i told him it was pretty simple......well tonight, messing around with my units (both), i could not get either unit to show the photo overlay and/or the shading to work so i know it wasnt him not knowing how to turn it on........i have updated the card a few times since i bought it along with both units having the latest updates......Soooooo am i the only one having this issue or is there others?????

[TahoeDust]

Ok, my turn for a question.......got the navionics platinum plus card using it in a 10 Gen 2 and 7 Touch. I know the photo overlay and shading worked when i got the card. A guy in my club was asking me how to get it the photo overlay to show up and i told him it was pretty simple......well tonight, messing around with my units (both), i could not get either unit to show the photo overlay and/or the shading to work so i know it wasnt him not knowing how to turn it on........i have updated the card a few times since i bought it along with both units having the latest updates......Soooooo am i the only one having this issue or is there others?????

Did you check the Transparency setting?

[fishin couillon]

Yes, turned it up all the way....didnt help or should i say work....

[prostaff1]

First, toggle from clear cursor to restore then back to clear. Set your depth highlight ranges to a test setting of 15min-30 feet max, then adjust it. I suspect you have accidentally cleared your depth ranges to "0", in which case...your transparency does not know what to adjust or not.
Tommy
Prostaff Lowrance/Navico
Prostaff Marine Specialist/Navionics

[JDFishing]

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[bandit53]

Got to thinking about Sonar Charts and lake levels. My home lake has been up to 6' above normal pool earlier this year and they are now lowering it to as much as 3' below normal. That will be a 9' change in, say, 6 mos. When various peoples have been gathering and submitting sonar charts to Navionics during this period, does Navionics account for the lake level change? If not, it would seem a given contour line would not be consistent over the lake? Hope I am making sense. During one 2 year span the lake went from 13' low to 9' high. This would make an even more dramatic inconsistency if not taken into account when sonar data is incorporated into Sonar Charts. I spoke to Navionics Support but they really didn't have any answer, saying this was too detailed an inquiry for their level of support.

[Wayne P.]

Got to thinking about Sonar Charts and lake levels. My home lake has been up to 6' above normal pool earlier this year and they are now lowering it to as much as 3' below normal. That will be a 9' change in, say, 6 mos. When various peoples have been gathering and submitting sonar charts to Navionics during this period, does Navionics account for the lake level change? If not, it would seem a given contour line would not be consistent over the lake? Hope I am making sense. During one 2 year span the lake went from 13' low to 9' high. This would make an even more dramatic inconsistency if not taken into account when sonar data is incorporated into Sonar Charts. I spoke to Navionics Support but they really didn't have any answer, saying this was too detailed an inquiry for their level of support.

Over time with many uploaded sonar logs the "normal" lake level will be used for all contours.

A data point as the depth and GPS location, so as a particular location's depth changes, with enough data provided, there will be an average. Takes time to have an average---many years.
You keep providing the data at the same locations so that the average can happen sooner.

[contium]

When I start Sonar Charts Live, it asks for the current lake level (offset). It's pretty much up to the person collecting the data to do so correctly. I have had sonar logs rejected on both Sonar Charts and Insight Genesis because there was to much of a discrepancy between my logs and other peoples previous logs. It sucks because I go to great lengths to get accurate data.

[grout-scout]

My lake has been down 20'- 28' the last several years and the water line on my Nav card shows that level. If my lake ever fills (doubtful at this point) then I'm going to have a borderline worthless card.

[fishin couillon]

First, toggle from clear cursor to restore then back to clear. Set your depth highlight ranges to a test setting of 15min-30 feet max, then adjust it. I suspect you have accidentally cleared your depth ranges to "0", in which case...your transparency does not know what to adjust or not.
Tommy
Prostaff Lowrance/Navico
Prostaff Marine Specialist/Navionics

Tommy, did what you said, and still dont have the aerial image and "shading" on my unit.....i did a reset to unit and didnt work....i have some other AT5 aerials of local lakes which work correctly but just not working on Navionics. One thing to note is that i updated the whole card (community edits, sonar charts and standard maps). It was working prior not sure if that update of the standard maps changed or deleted something.

Can anyone tell me what file i could look for on card for shading or aerials to see if they are on my card??

[prostaff1]

Tommy, did what you said, and still dont have the aerial image and "shading" on my unit.....i did a reset to unit and didnt work....i have some other AT5 aerials of local lakes which work correctly but just not working on Navionics. One thing to note is that i updated the whole card (community edits, sonar charts and standard maps). It was working prior not sure if that update of the standard maps changed or deleted something.

Can anyone tell me what file i could look for on card for shading or aerials to see if they are on my card??

Hey Jeremy, Just happened to see your message. If you still have my phone number, give me a call and we can step through this one setting at a time. I am working in office today, have a 12 on my desk and I can put in a Plat S card and walk thru this and see what we can do. T

[JDFishing]

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[skeeternuthead]

I also have lost the shading and satellite function on my HDS 9 Touch, have tried all of the above suggestion to get it to work. I know it was working last month when I updated the card HMPTS6 Platinum. I have two Touch 9's linked together and it does not work on either one. Would it be a problem with the card or with the HDS units, also done soft boot and hard boot no luck. any help will be appreciated.

[JDFishing]

Skeeternuthead - have you only updates the cards or have you updated the Lowrance units as well?

[skeeternuthead]

I have updated the Navionics card twice since I discovered the shading and satellite overlays were not working, The HDS 9's were up dated when the latest updates were available for download. Does anyone no if the problem is associated with Navionics, Lowrance or both of them

[bandit53]

Have you lost the shading on all lakes on the South card or just some lakes? Reason I ask is I no longer have shading on Toledo Bend or Sam Rayburn after updating, but have spot checked and still have shading/transparency on Choke Canyon, Guntersville, Fayette Country, Dardanelle, etc. I used to have it on TB and SR, but no longer after updating. Same results on 3 HDS units. I can take my unit and go to Bass Pro and their Platinum card works fine on TB/SR. I would imagine their card hasn't been updated. I can get preferred depth range on those 2 lakes to show up as white (and everything else blue) by turning Colored Seabed OFF.