![]() Q: Do I have the option to share my maps with friends or with Garmin?Ī: Of course! Like we said, the maps you create are yours to do with as you please. Quickdraw Contours is just one more added benefit for you, the angler. That map is created as you drive around or fish, and is available instantly, without sacrificing quality. It’s not your job to do theirs, which is why we aren’t forcing you to give us your sonar data in exchange for a map that you worked hard to create. Our highly skilled marine cartography teams are on the water surveying 365 days/year to create the best lake maps on the market. That’s just not how we roll.Ībsolutely! You own the maps you create, plain and simple. Q: Is there a monthly or yearly fee to keep my maps private?Ī: Not a chance! We aren’t going to charge you a monthly or yearly fee to keep your maps private. Q: How long does it take for a lake map to be created?Ī: Only as long as it takes you to map it! Quickdraw Contours creates HD maps with 1’ contours instantly without sacrificing quality. Garmin doesn’t believe in forcing you to share your hard-earned data with us in order to get your map back. Q: Do I have to upload my sonar logs to Garmin in order to get my map back?Ī: Nope! There is no tedious process that requires you to upload sonar logs when you get home. Trust us, you won’t want to go back to the ancient way of doing things. If you’ve used other mapping programs before on your old units, try Quickdraw Contours. Users are now able to download the latest marine software update to create their own HD lake maps with 1’ contours. Lack of that computer functionality appears to be intentional to encourage people to upload to Quickdraw Community, and is sleazy, in my opinion.Garmin is changing the game once again with the release of Quickdraw Contours. ![]() I thought I would be picking my ice hole spots from home, then uploading them to my handheld GPS and walking right to the spot, all with a hard copy of the map in my hands. Can't view quickdraw maps on computer to study at home and plan trips. ![]() Quickdraw doesn't show colour coded contours while recording, it shows in green/white where you have/haven't recorded, so you can't take advantage of the colour coded topo until your map is 'done'. Quickdraw doesn't use the Lakeview files as a base and improve them, it uses a quickdraw base map which doesn't even show the shoreline in the right place in my neck of the woods. From a mapping standpoint it has been way below my hopes & expectations, but there's not a lot of info online, so I don't feel so bad about having taken the risk and lost. Overall the chart plotter has been a revelation for marking fish, which is neat, but not that important to me. They might even be receptive to my concern about sharing a map of where I fish. The other thing I can and should do is ask Garmin to upgrade their software. Having realized the limitations of my SV95, I'm much more likely to put together an ice kit so I can get the function I was hoping for, at least when it's warm out. I ice fish in -20C and below a lot, so I don't really want to subject my Garmin to that, having seen the toll it can take on my much simpler Marcum LX-5. I haven't tried the Active Captain app - I'll look into it, thank you for that prompt. It does show pre-purchased maps, but the Canada Lakeview 2016 which came with my 95sv is in 15 or 30ft increments for the lakes around me and low accuracy at that. ![]() Homeport shows my waypoints and tracks, but doesn't show my quickdraw contours, which is what I'm really after. (I realize that when I then turnaround and use Facebook I'm a big hypocrite, but it doesn't change how I feel.) Beyond that, I simply can't get over the fact that I'm paying Garmin over $1000 for the privilege to spend my time and gas to make something that directly benefits them. So if I do 3-4 trips to a lake over a summer, then upload, I'm not providing much in terms of mapping, but I'm giving a very clear map of where I fish. It would take 1000s of hours to map just one of our big lakes (sounds like the panoptix 'ducers make it go much quicker, and will be one more reason to get the upgrade for me). Up here we have many large lakes and very few people. AlgaeKilla, you're right, I could choose to take a generous approach to it, to a great extent my outlook is specific to my location. ![]()
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