These programs are part of their Blue chart and U.S. Garmin: The Garmin company offers their Home Port and Base Camp from their website at /en-US/US/maps/trip-planning/c452-c461-p1.html and for Basecamp. Some of these more popular consumer brands are: Many offer this data transfer program as a free download from their website or at a nominal cost.
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Most makers offer a data transfer program as part of their optional supplemental mapping software or even as a stand alone program. Check with the manufacturer’s customer support section to discover exactly what requirements are needed.
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Older units might require a special power/data cable used to link the GPS unit and a computer via a USB or serial port.
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Many of the newer GPS brands accomplish the data transfer via a spare memory card and a card reader installed in a PC computer. I suggest you explore the web site of the GPS brand you have to determine exactly what you need. Those who have the saved data and have the same unit file format, can use one of several mapping or data programs offered by the different manufacturers. It is worthwhile to at least view the program. I use a free one called GPSBabel ( Yes, I said free. If not, then they have to convert the file data to a format that is used by the different unit.īut don’t fret: The data format can be rewritten to the required format either by hand or by one of the many GPS data conversion programs. If these anglers are so lucky as to have data stored on a memory card or in a computer file, the procedure is already halfway done. There is a move under way to standardize the format, but it is not yet an industry standard. Yes, that is right: The format of the data might be different between different brands and cannot be simply copied from one brand to another. Occasionally, some bought a different brand of GPS and need to convert the data to the new format. Most readers who are upgrading to a more-sophisticated GPS unit know or have heard there is a way to electronically transfer data from one unit to another but don’t really know how. I stress that, in the future, they should back up all of their data after each trip if they added a new waypoint or route to the unit, and that they should consider a backup of the tracks and converting them to routes if they expect to travel that way again. I explain there still might be a chance that the electronic data can be recovered and generally explain the procedures. Some might have written hard copies of their waypoints, but dread having to manually enter all of the positions, and they have no record of their routes and or tracks. Many readers do not even know that waypoints, routes and tracks (trails, bread crumb, traxback, etc.) could be backed up.
Generally, on the crashed unit, I first ask if they backed up a file or memory card of the data in the unit.
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