When you start the program it automatically checks for updates and installs them if you have an internet connection. However the Help has a simple overview and if you take the trouble to read it you will get started very quickly. I found both MapSource and HomePort a little difficult to get started with, a tutorial would help. It is a pity the data points are so spread out but more would probably eat data storage capacity. You can scroll and zoom about after your trip and almost replay the day. Fawn Creek Township is in Montgomery County. Bottom right shows the area of the track on a larger scale chart. Fawn Creek Township is located in Kansas with a population of 1,618. The red arrow on my track shows the point on the depth chart highlighted. Below left shows the bottom – the granularity is about one data point every 300 feet – and below that is the complete route showing the area zoomed. The screen below shows my track (which is saved onto the SD card as part of the User Data). Good for reviewing marks you have travelled over. If you have a fish finder linked to the plotter you can view the depth profile along the track – after the event. One very nice feature is the playback of the Track data. Waypoints are listed on the left, position in the bottom tile and location superimposed on the chart. Top left shows the data files in use – the G2Vision SD card for the chart, and my User Data (waypoints in this case) imported onto the PC. The screen shot above is of the Nab approach channel east of the Isle of Wight. Note I said “import”, maps can only be read from the card but your data can be imported, saved, modified and exported back onto the card. You can save your user data from the chart plotter to a SD card and import that data from the SD card into the PC. If you have G2 Vision data it will even show you the birds eye photographs just as you can on the chart plotter. It will use that map data for the PC display. (If your chart plotter does not have map data on an external card you can usually save pre-loaded mad data to an external card). The software comes with a crude base map, but as soon as you put your Garmin map card in a SD slot on the PC it will recognise it. Once installed, you will have to re-boot the PC but as soon as that it done you are good to go. That way if something goes wrong you have a file on your PC you can go back to. It is simple to install, I preferred to download the file then open the file to install the product, rather than run the install file directly. It is available as a download directly from the Garmin web site, as a free download. Garmin also have an older product called MapSource which allows you to create and transfer waypoints but that was about all it was good for with marine chart plotters. Garmin have launched a new PC-based software product called HomePort, which allows you to play with your Garmin chart plotter map, routes, waypoints and even your track data on your PC. Painting a waterline on a new or refurbished hull.Trouble-shooting the Alderney Ring method.The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.Book “Angling Boats” – Free Digital Edition for Download and Print.More Boating Apps for iPhone and Android.Ray Identification Guides from The Shark Trust.
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