turtle Posted December 28, 2012 Report Posted December 28, 2012 I have a Garmin Montana 650 GPS and would like to load hydrographic lake maps for Ontario (mostly for Lake Simcoe) onto it. Is the Garmin Blue Chart map the only option? How do like using it? Thanks.
Richard S. Posted December 28, 2012 Report Posted December 28, 2012 (edited) IMO navionics is way better, ft. by ft. contours in depth and shows more lakes. I have both, blue chip on my garmin and navionics on my iPhone and I prefer the navionics. Rich. Edited December 28, 2012 by Richard S.
Terry Posted December 28, 2012 Report Posted December 28, 2012 I don't think you asked if you bought the right make...so imo garmin maps are great, more and better details of lakes and I have both lowrance and garmin........and if you type in the right words in google you can get them for free if yours has a memory card a friend can give you an image of lake simcoe too
BillM Posted December 28, 2012 Report Posted December 28, 2012 IMO navionics is way better, ft. by ft. contours in depth and shows more lakes. I have both, blue chip on my garmin and navionics on my iPhone and I prefer the navionics. Rich. You probably don't have your Garmin setup properly if you're not getting ft by ft contours on it. I've got Bluecharts on my Garmin 62S and have no issues getting great detail with it.
Fisherman Posted December 28, 2012 Report Posted December 28, 2012 I don't think you asked if you bought the right make...so imo garmin maps are great, more and better details of lakes and I have both lowrance and garmin........and if you type in the right words in google you can get them for free if yours has a memory card a friend can give you an image of lake simcoe too Terry are you talking about ibycus?
porkpie Posted December 29, 2012 Report Posted December 29, 2012 Well if you are, Ibycus is freeware, and nothing that needs to be spoken in circles about!
bassfanatic25 Posted December 29, 2012 Report Posted December 29, 2012 Garmin Bluecharts and the Inland Lakes card will both have Simcoe! Great maps too
BillM Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 Well if you are, Ibycus is freeware, and nothing that needs to be spoken in circles about! Ibycus is topo, not hydro. Terry is most likely referring to one of the many torrent sites out there
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