Mapcreate US Topo Accessory Pack
- MAPCREATE USA ACCESSORY PACK
Product Description
MAPCREATE™ USA 7 SOFTWARE
The newest Lowrance enhanced mapping software for all the U.S. and Hawaiion a single DVD!…now bigger and better with the addition of over 3,000 inland U.S. lakes with depth contours, plus mapping coverage for the whole of Alaska! Also features topographic contour lines with elevations, enhanced shoreline detail for coastal and inland waters with nav aids, 2 million searchable Point-of-Interests, exclusive hunting databases (WMAs, WMUs GMUs, Public Lands, etc.) highways, roads, landmarks and more. MapCreate™ Series 7 Accessory Pack includes MapCreate™ Series 7 DVD, LEI MMC/SD card reader-writer, and a blank memory card!
Searching. MapCreate™ lets you search for POIs, land features and more, just as you can in a Lowrance GPS unit.
Aviation Searching. Load a card containing a Jeppesen® Aviation Database into the card reader and MapCreate™ lets you search for items such as air… More >>
Mapcreate US Topo Accessory Pack
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
I just received this GPS mapping software. I played around with it for a little while and found it to be interesting. I haven’t tried map creation yet but I’m sure it will be a great tool for my Lowrance iFinder Expedition c.
The lake detail of the Great Lakes specifically Lake Erie seems very good. The contour lines seem accurate. The port locations also seemed accurate.
The local roads both urban and rural seemed pretty good as well. 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. 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. 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.
Software is not that great. Had to install an upgrade just to get it to work w/o crashing/hanging up (on Win XP). Even then, it cannot do large maps at one time. thus you have to make several smaller ones which just takes more time. Will occasionallly lock up anyway. Also, appears to require a special card reader to limit # of MMC/SD cards used. Pretty lame attempt to limit people copying maps for others.
The website is not great either for updates, etc. My device has a newer version than available upgrade on the website !
The maps are far out of date. I live in N. Va and although the copyright is 2006, it appears the maps for this area are at least 10 years old. Even major roads like 267, a toll road, are not shown.
I knew this software limited it’s owners to only 5 memory cards, but my GPS can use up to a 1 gig card, so I didn’t think that would be a problem. I made a map of the southwest, 850 meg, and thought all was going fine until the software ended with “!!!!! Assert Failed !!!!!” while writing the map to the card. I contacted Lowrance and their recommendation was to limit maps to only 16 meg, a maximum of 32 per card. That only will use about 1/2 of the 1 gig card. A 16 meg map doesn’t even cover a rectangle bordered by Phoenix, AZ and Las Vegas, NV. That requires 70 meg. They said the GPS would move from file to file automatically but there is no way in the software to tile the maps so I’ll have to guess at borders when building the maps.
Maps can only be rectangles or corridors, which are rectangles linked together.
The DVD must also be in your drive to use the software, not just when writing to a card. The kit came with a memory card, but I haven’t found a way to determine what size it is and my PC can’t read the card directly. So it is useless to me.
My GPS is a Lowrance iFinder PHD so maybe yours will work better and the software won’t crash.
I had great hopes for this software and it may yet deliver, but it is going to be very painful and time consuming to build maps for the area I need.