I have a lowrance hdi 7.  Purchased it so I could do sonar logs and send in to navionics so I could have maps of places not already maped. I mapped a lake the other day and sent into Navionics.  Week later I get an email saying lowrance does not grant permission for logs recorded in their proprietary format to be used by navionics for improving sonar charts.  Anybody else have this problem and what did you do to fix it?  That was the whole reason I purchased it when it says right on the label it is capable and now its telling me its not.

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I would like to know the answer to this too if you dont might sharing your experience Mr. Wayne P.

 

Thanks in advance.

I would like to know the answer to this too if you dont might sharing your experience Mr. Wayne P.

 

Thanks in advance.

Apparently Lowrance has made it to were if you don't have the HDS model witch is more expensive than the HDI you can not save your sonar logs in the proper format for navionics.  Lowrance has a newish update for the units and I downloaded hopefully it will fix the problem.

You have to be able to save the Lowrance recorded sonarlog in GPX format for the Navionics server to be able to utilize the log.... If you have Go Free on your HDS unit and link it to your phone you can also do SonarCharts Live.

In order to get the sonar log in a format that works with Navionics, submit it to Insight Genesis and then export as GPX.

This functionality is available in the free version of Insight Genesis. Navionics needs the file in GPX format to accept it.

 

 

You can sign up and log in from this page. You will also be able to see your maps in Genesis as well.... Tom Branch