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Your GPS system should be set to the same WGS 84 datum
setting. Both categories must agree in both the position format
and the datum settings.
Google Earth saves the positions as an .kml or a .kzm. files.
These files will be the ones you transfer to the computer and
then to your GPS unit.
Zoom in on the Google Earth program and mark your places
(waypoints).
Mark and save your positions by using the “Add placemark”
icon link or by using the Control + shift + S key strokes.
Save your locations as a placemark (aka waypoint) one at
a time. You can select the color of the map pins by using the
right click of the mouse in the waypoints box and selecting the
Properties button.
After all of the waypoints are saved and moved into the My
GPS file, you are ready to make the transfer.
Select the location where you want the data to go and copy
the Google Client file to that location,Part Two
On the web, go to http://www.GPSBabel.org and start the download
by clicking on the link. It is a free data Internet download.
Install an icon on your desktop for the program.
Open the Babel program, select the Input format as Google
KML and select the Google place file where you placed it. All of
the Google Earth place locations you marked should be in that
one folder.
Indicate that file in the Babel program. Click the Waypoints
box in the Babel Program, and then select the Lowrance or the
Lowrance version 4 for the file type, depending on what version
of Lowrance software your unit is running.Try the Version 4 first.
Click OK. The data should all be converted to Lowrance .usr
waypoints and should be in the appropriate folder.
Now copy the converted file to the spare memory card. In
doing so, you might want to rename it or use the full name.
Place the memory card in your GPS unit and, using the Menu
features in that unit, transfer the data into the internal way-
point memory.
All of the waypoints should appear as overlays on whatever
mapping program you have.Other options
If the unit does not recognize the file, you will have to use the
Lowrance data program called Insight Planner that is sold on
the Lowrance web site.
Lowrance offers several types of supplemental mapping that
you might be interested in, including Insight Topographical
maps. I like this type of mapping, as I believe it shows the
Louisiana coastal marshes with much better detail than some
of the other mapping versions.aSk caPt.
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