Waypoint Management

[Bill Sutton]

Just curious what you guys use for waypoint management. My goal this year is to improve in that area and I'm looking at different software to try to help me. Navionics started out looking good but it is very limited and I can't get standard measurements it only does metric. All opinions welcome, please and thank you.

Bill Sutton
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[geareng]

Bill,

first if you are referring to Navionics PC application about it only being metric, I thought so at first as well. But if you go to settings and then use your mouse and "scroll" down you can change the metric to inches.

As far as waypoint management, the key is to do it from the start. I do mine by lake and just store them in a folder on my computer. I know there are a number of different software available, I use MapCreate and Fugawi currently. The Navionics PC application is relatively new and I would guess that it will eventually be very good based on what they did with NavPlanner.

[Bill Sutton]

Mark,
Thank you for your response. I feel a bit foolish as I was talking about the Navionics PC application but when I was hitting settings on my laptop it wasn't showing the lower section of the settings. Once I dragged it there was the conversion. Thanks again. Do you need Fugawi in conjunction with mapcreate of do you just use then both?

Bill Sutton
NPAA #619

[geareng]

Bill,

no you don't need both, either will work. The problem is Fugawi is more of a mapping deal and it not exactly cheap and I don't even know if they make Mapcreate any more is the other issue. If neither of those work out for you, I would suggest downloading GPSBabel, it does conversions and some waypoint management. I have not messed with it much because I have not had the need, but I have heard good things about it. Let me know if that works or not. If that doesn't work, then I would suggest converting your file to excel and seperating them that way. Then at that point just do it by lake from then on.