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The port locations also seemed accurate. The lake detail of the Great Lakes specifically Lake Erie seems very good. I was able to locate an obscure rural road that I fish near pretty quickly and it's map location seemed accurate.I also searched for a hiking trail that I use occassionaly and it too showed up on the map. I played around with it for a little while and found it to be interesting. There are a lot of back roads in the area so we'll see.All in all it seems like a good investment with good mappping detail and capabilities. The contour lines seem accurate.
It was marked as a road, however, and not a trail, so I'll need to take my GPS and see where exactly the trail starts. I just received this GPS mapping software. I haven't tried map creation yet but I'm sure it will be a great tool for my Lowrance iFinder Expedition c. The local roads both urban and rural seemed pretty good as well.
For the money i think the progrsm should hsve more detail in the map detail such as water depths etc. Garmin topo map is a much finer program with finer and has more detail and the program can do a lot more so i my openion garmin has a better program.Don
Had to install an upgrade just to get it to work w/o crashing/hanging up (on Win XP). thus you have to make several smaller ones which just takes more time.
Also, appears to require a special card reader to limit # of MMC/SD cards used.
Will occasionallly lock up anyway. My device has a newer version than available upgrade on the website.
Software is not that great. Even then, it cannot do large maps at one time.
Pretty lame attempt to limit people copying maps for others.The website is not great either for updates, etc.
The map detail is not as detailed as my Navionics Hot Maps Premium chip used in a newer gps/depthfinder, but the lowrance LCX15 would not except that chip and called for the one made by Map Create. I think it was user error. Map Create 7 is easier to use than previous models because everything is on one CD. There was some confusion getting the map border that I chose to the SD card. You need to save map before you transfer it to the chip.
I like the 540c but would have purchased another brand GPS if I knew how poor Lowrance software was going to be with there reader. 1 of the 2 new readers didn't work at all and the second one worked for a couple of months and now it's dead. I sent it to Lowrance for repair and after a couple of weeks they sent me 2 new card readers at no charge. 6.3. I purchased version 7 after buying a Lowrance 540c. I've had nothing but problems with the supplied card reader. I asked around and found out that this has been a problem all the way back when they released ver.
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