Please tell me the best coastal map software.

[protozo1]

I'm looking to buy a chip with the coastal maps of the northeast for my lowrance. There are navionics, hotmaps, platinum maps, exl gold maps, navusa, who makes the best most detailed for bouys and bottom structure? Thanks for your help.

 

[cjames]

Re: Please tell me the best coastal map software.

it may sound strange, but go to the docks, and find a commercial fishing boat with a lowrance gps antenna on it, and ask em what they use. Most of them will be using ray, or furuno, but im sure theres a few with lowrance gear.

 

[Boatist]

Re: Please tell me the best coastal map software.

I would call lowrance and ask them but your unit should already have all the Buoy data, at least every Lowrance model I have seen has the buoy data in the base map.

http://www.lowrance.com/Products/Mapping/NauticPath/default.asp

 

[tommays]

Re: Please tell me the best coastal map software.

I find the lowrance charts fine in the costal Ny area

The CG is way behind in the survey work that everbody uses to make there charts so there is really not and DATA to make a better chart at this time



Tommays

 

[protozo1]

Re: Please tell me the best coastal map software.

Thanks, I'll let everyone know the setup I ended up with.