It's a bargain. Whether you have a GPS side imaging sonar or not, I consider this a must have if you plan on stepping outside of your home territory. Even around home, it could be helpful.

It has every lake/pond/river, including those in hi-def that are contained in the in the Hot Maps Premium Chips for the entire U.S. Plus, it also has all the coastal waters as well.

You can print them. You can plot courses, waypoints, etc., and with the chip reader, that comes with it, (it holds two chips, one for a hot map chip and the other for a recordable chip) and overlay the data for use on your boat.

Here are a couple of images I printed from Kentucky Lake. Pay attention to O'Brien Branch. Notice that flooded timber appears on the enlargement, not the first.

Up to a point, the more you zoom in, the more info that will appear. If you have the Platinum Chip, you can zoom around in 3D.

With shipping, from Tiger GPS, it cost just under 120 dollars. Ordered it on Tuesday, got it on Thursday. Order before 3:00 p.m. Eastern, and it ships same day from NJ.

I forgot one thing. It will not produce map chips that will work in your Lowrance, Humminbird, Garmin or whatever. If you download waypoints, courses or whatever onto a recordable chip, they will interface on your sonar, and overlay them onto the chart/map on your display.

The program comes on a disc. Once installed on your computer, you go to the Fugawi web site to get it activated. You can activate it on two computers. Fill in the info, with the product key and the serial number, online, and it will be activated.

Agreed!  NavPlanner 2 is great, I've had it for 6 months.  Great for researching lakes you are relatively unfamiliar with and for cleaning up your user files.

Tom,

What are the green rectangles and red cones in the pics?

Navigation bouys.

The pictures are not as sharp as they appear on the monitor.  The problem is that I had to print them, then scan them into a folder on the computer, then open them to photobucket, and from photobucket copy the image irl and paste it onto the post.

The last step should be ok because it's a digital transfer of a file.  The scanning no doubt is the weakest point in the link as far as quality lost in a transfer.

I've also downloaded google earth.  Fugawi has a beta plug in which puts a satellite image and the map image side by each.  There is no way of printing the image on the monitor.  It's interesting to expand them and see that the docks and other features are are reliably shown on the map, even to the shape of the dock.

I expect that once they get all the kinks out of the side by each thing there will be a charge for the plug and play to display the satellite image of the map image side by side.