navionics gold card help

markas76 · #1 31-10-2014, 11:33 PM

Hey guys,
I just got a Australia wide gold card for my lowrance hds7 touch, now the maps are showing water depths and contours for some of my nearby waterways such as brisbane waters, pittwater and Sydney harbour etc but other large waterways such as Lake Macquarie and St Georges basin ARE NOT showing these water depths and contours of the bottom.
Is this correct? I thought all the major estuaries and waterways in Australia should be showing these depth lines. Do I need to download updates via the internet???
Any advice would be great, thanks. .

todd88 · #2 31-10-2014, 11:37 PM

I'm pretty sure it's the data overlay settings, it will save depth etc from everywhere you drive

thecheif · #3 05-11-2014, 01:02 PM

I dont know with the gold cards but with the platinums you can turn on a function called fishnchips and it gives you bayerythmic contors for every thing and you can also get updates im not sure about the gold cards for updates better check

Ian Sewell · #4 05-11-2014, 11:23 PM

Is it an all of Australia card or is it just a certain part of the coast?? I am not familiar with the waters you are looking at so need to also ask are they shallow systems with little variation in bottom contours?

Fishnchips works on the gold card (at least it does after an update on the card) however half of the info in Fishnchips mode is pretty dubious, I have found a number of good looking lumps that do not even exist.

HOUDINI · #5 06-11-2014, 01:14 AM

I have the garmin g2 on my handheld GPS and it does not have St George's basin either. I have been told by people that these types of cards don't cover a lot of inland waters.

markas76 · #6 06-11-2014, 06:36 AM

Thanks for all the replies guys. In regards to your question Ian its a 50xg card I believe which I was told covers the entire Australia and New Zealand. Ive scrolled around on the maps and it does appear to cover the entire country but there's certain waterways that are missing which I mentioned earlier such as lake macquarie and st georges basin which are substantial size waterways. On the navionics website it allows you to choose a particular card and then preview all the areas that card covers, when I previewed the 50xg card it does show nav marker info and water depths in lake mac and st georges basin so wasn't sure why it's not showing on my card, ill look into that fishnchips setting and see if that helps.
Thanks again for all the replies

ptr244 · #7 18-11-2014, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by markas76

Thanks for all the replies guys. In regards to your question Ian its a 50xg card I believe which I was told covers the entire Australia and New Zealand. Ive scrolled around on the maps and it does appear to cover the entire country but there's certain waterways that are missing which I mentioned earlier such as lake macquarie and st georges basin which are substantial size waterways. On the navionics website it allows you to choose a particular card and then preview all the areas that card covers, when I previewed the 50xg card it does show nav marker info and water depths in lake mac and st georges basin so wasn't sure why it's not showing on my card, ill look into that fishnchips setting and see if that helps.
Thanks again for all the replies

Did you sort this out markas

markas76 · #8 19-11-2014, 08:42 AM

No ptr244 i havent sorted it out yet, i rang the store i bought it from to queery them and was told someone would ring me back but that never happened, i also looked at the fish and chips option as someone suggested but it is "blacked out" on my screen and cannot be selected.
My main issue was that Lake mcquarie was blank on my card and only showed nav markers and depths in the channel leading into the main body of water and the main body of water shows nothing at all, but according to the navionics website which allows you to preview the coverage of each card it should show some info on markers and depths in the main body area, i have a similar issue with Forster and Sussex inlet.
I might ring navionics directly and ask them, but i was wondering if anyone on this forum who has a gold 50XG card could tell me if their card shows the info in these areas that mine doesnt?

ptr244 · #9 24-11-2014, 01:31 AM

Mate we have 1 foot contours for St Georges Basin, we should have it processed within the next week or so. Takes awhile to get them ready for sounder & App. Shoalhaven is already done as well as a few others. This is the detail for Lake Macquarie which we are releasing today.

Lake Macquarie has undergone some significant changes since it was first released.
These include:
• 1 foot (0.3m) contours on sounders at a zoom level of 100m and 1m contours on the App (unfortunately 1 foot contours are too busy for the App!).
• 3D bottom mapping - great for finding those humps, bumps, sneaky little channels and drop offs. Available on sounder and App, awesome viewing on a desktop PC with a big screen.
• Colour coded shallow, intermediate & deep water - great when looking for overall depth changes, also pretty good as a travelling map.
• Artificial reefs, all navigation markers, boat ramps, roads etc. And if someone tells you the fish are biting at Myuna Bay, no problem – points, bays and other localities are all labelled on this version.
As with all of our maps, anyone who has purchased Lake Macquarie on SD Card receives a free upgrade. Just return the card with a stamped, self-addressed envelope together with your sounder model to Charted Waters.
Compatible sounders include Lowrance, Simrad & B&G.

markas76 · #10 27-11-2014, 03:01 AM

Thanks ptr244, how does this work if I bought a lake macquarie sd card for my lowrance hds touch? Do I need to remove my navionics gold card from the sd slot and put your charted waters sd card in everytime I want to use it? As far as I know the hds 7 touch only has 1 sd card slot (could be wrong on that).
I have a hds 5 linked to the hds 7 touch via an ethernet cable, could I have the charted waters sd card in the hds 5 and keep the navionics card in the hds 7 touch and share the info from both cards between the two sounders? Any advice on that would be appreciated, thanks.

ptr244 · #11 27-11-2014, 04:18 PM

Yes the 7 touch has only 1 slot.
All Lowrance machines have a setting under chart options where you chose between Navionics & Lowrance, they do not cross talk, it's one or the other. The Lowrance mapping has many more functions. (some US Tournament anglers actually run 2 HDS's on the console, one set to navionics & the other set to Lowrance, be nice to have a budget like that )
Providing both your sounders are Gen 2 you can view the map on both machines with only 1 card, but I don't think you could run Navionics in one & Lowrance in the other & see them on both machines, in fact i'm sure you can't.
That's all the theory, in reality when you're on the water it's one or the other and depends where you're fishing. If you want 3D bottom mapping & 1 ft contours for St Georges Basin, you use Lowrance mapping, if your going out to Jervis bay you use navionics. I bought a waterproof case off ebay that holds 8 cards that lives in the hatch, I change cards all the time, it takes seconds, not minutes. Cheers Phil

nabs · #12 28-11-2014, 01:14 AM

I can view Lowrance and Navionics on the same unit on my HDS 12. I can run a split screen with 2 charts side by side. One with navionics and the other with Lowrance. It may work with the HDS 7 and 5. Just make sure both units have recent updates.

ptr244 · #13 01-12-2014, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by nabs

I can view Lowrance and Navionics on the same unit on my HDS 12. I can run a split screen with 2 charts side by side. One with navionics and the other with Lowrance. It may work with the HDS 7 and 5. Just make sure both units have recent updates.

handy to know nabs as I am getting close to an upgrade. the HDS 5 & 7 don't have dual cards though