Re: Garmin/ Mapsource US Recreational Lakes
Mapsource is a generic name for their PC software. There are 3 products that actually provide the data for it: US waterways & lights (no longer sold) which contains maps, buoys, markers, lights, etc but no depth info or marina info). Fishing Hotspots which contains depth info and fishing hotspot info, not sure what else) and Bluechart which contains everything - maps, markers, depth, marinas etc., etc.<br /><br />Bluechart is excellent. It sells for $150 but you can find it for around $110 on eBay and Amazon. Waterways & lights is fine if you don't need depth info (you navigate from channel marker to channel marker or use your GPS in conjunction with paper charts) I can't speak to fishing hotspots - I have it but never used it because I am strictly and ocean boater and hotspots is for all the US Lakes.<br /><br />You can also buy the Maptech waterproof maps for your area which now come with their PC software called Offshore Navigator - It does all lot of the same things as Mapsource. You can download routes and waypoint to your GPS from it but you can't download the actual maps. You can however, put it on a laptop, hook it up to your GPS and use it as a killer GPS chartplotter!
