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MapCreate™ USA Topo 6.3 mapping software is the
industry's best value in higher-detail, topographical electronic charts for GPS
navigation. MapCreate™ USA Topo charts deliver incredible detail for navigation,
including: enhanced shoreline and nav aids detail for inland and coastal waters,
excellent land detail with major highways, city streets, rural roads, railways,
key landmarks, and more - Plus a unique, searchable database of up to 2,000,000
Points-of-Interest to find marinas, restaurants, hotels, airports, emergency
services, shopping, and lots more, along with streets and addresses, National
Parks and Forests with boundaries, Wildlife Preserves, and other great detail!
Simpler Interface. A new, simpler
interface means no more saving a map border file before creating a map, and a
new menu and toolbar layout to help you find what you're looking for more
quickly. You'll also notice pop-up information boxes for POIs, land features and
interstate highway exits, along with Exit pop-up boxes that list nearby exit
services.
New Mapping Data. Topographic
elevations, public hunting areas and game management units are included in the
new MapCreate™ USA Topo 6.3 software.
Additional Symbols. New hunting-specific
symbols make it easier to scout ahead of the hunt and mark important spots,
including ATVs, turkeys, food plots, buck rubs, and more.
Searching. MapCreate™ USA Topo lets you
search for POIs, land features and more, just as you can in a Lowrance GPS unit.
Aviation Searching. Load a card
containing a Jeppesen® Aviation Database into the card reader and MapCreate™ USA
Topo lets you search for items such as airports and VORs.
Display Fishing Hot Spots®. Load a card
containing an IMS Fishing Hot Spots® fishing map into the card reader and
MapCreate™ USA Topo shows fishing details on your computer screen. This makes it
easier to plan trips and manage GPS data with Fishing Hot Spots® maps.
Find Nearest Waypoint or Nearest Highway
Exit. It's easier to find these items with the new right-click shortcut.
Map Category Options Toolbar. A
drop-down menu lets you select pre-set or customizable category settings for
different types of activities, including aviation, boating, driving, hiking, and
hunting.
Routing. MapCreate™ USA Topo lets you
accurately add POIs, land features and aviation navaids to routes with a click
of the mouse.
Dynamic Pan Arrows. The permanent pan
arrows that were located along the sides of the Master Map window have been
replaced with pop-up pan arrows that appear when you move the mouse pointer near
the edge of the map. You can even pan diagonally.
Pop-up Boxes. Pop-up information boxes
for POIs, land features and interstate highway exits now include elevations.
Exit pop-up boxes also list nearby exit services.
Details, Details. The MapCreate™ USA
Topo 6.3 database provides superb detail that covers:
- a searchable database of 2,000,000
Points-Of-Interest (includes airports, hotels, restaurants, entertainment,
emergency services, and lots more),
- enhanced shorelines and navigation aids for
inland and coastal waters,
- elevation contour lines for 49 states -
Alaska not included,
- public hunting areas for 46 states - Alaska,
Hawaii, Washington State and Wisconsin not included,
- Game Management Units for 22 states,
including AZ, CO, IA, ID, KS, KY, MA, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR,
PA, SD, UT, WI, WY,
- Corp of Engineers lands,
- wilderness areas and wildlife refuges (State
and Federal),
- state parks, state forests, city parks, and
recreational areas,
- improved inland hydrography and intermittent
streams,
- swamps and marshes,
- USGS 1:24000 Quad Map Boundaries
(searchable),
- Many Section, Township, Range lines
(searchable),
- boundaries for cities over 2500 in
population,
- military reservations,
- golf course, shopping center, hospital,
cemetery, and large business grounds,
- airport grounds and diagrams,
- these features included in other versions of
MapCreate™:
- rivers/lakes/tributaries,
- Interstate/federal/state highways,
- Interstate exit services (restaurants,
lodging, fuel, auto/truck/RV services),
- rural roads and city streets,
- cities and towns,
- railways,
- key landmarks,
- national forests and national parks,
- searchable street intersections and street
addresses,
- and more!
The MapCreate™ USA Topo 6.3 software is compatible with Lowrance mapping
GPS+WAAS products with digital media memory card (MMC/SD) capability. A variety
of accessory pack options are available with the CD-ROM software, including an
LEI MMC/SD card reader/writer, one digital media card, and with or without a
12-parallel channel GPS+WAAS satellite receiver/antenna.
Note: For security purposes, MapCreate™ USA Topo 6.3 encodes maps to
memory cards, and will restrict the encoding process to a maximum of five
different memory cards. You can create as many maps as you like, but they will
only work on the first five memory cards that you register with the MapCreate™
USA Topo 6.3 software.
Note: You must use an LEI branded
memory card reader/writer for MapCreate™ 6.3 to work properly.
Note: If you are experiencing
problems connecting to a network or the internet after installing MapCreate™ 6.3
on a computer running Windows 98SE,
Note: If MapCreate™ 6.3 freezes
upon execution on a computer running Windows XP with Service Pack 2, please read
this solution document for a temporary work-around.
| View the MapCreate™ 6.3 Manual
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View Manual |
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| For more details on current
mapping features, check out the MapCreate™ 6.3 Installation and Operation
Instructions (in PDF format). |
| MapCreate™ 6.3 Quick Reference Guide
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View Guide |
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| This quick reference guide
will teach you how to successfully transfer custom maps from MapCreate™ 6.3
to your MMC/SD card (in PDF format). |
| How MapCreate™ 6.3 Works: the Basics
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View Guide |
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| This one page excerpt from the
manual explains the basics of how MapCreate™ 6.3 creates maps and manages
GPS information |
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