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06-19-2014, 01:05 PM
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Location: Dana Point
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Gold maps
Are the Nav Gold maps worth the extra cost or is the standard included map fine for a Lowrance elite-5?
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06-19-2014, 03:29 PM
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Brandon
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: San Diego
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I have elite 5 also and had the gold card come with the unit when I bought it from west marine. Since it runs out after a year, I recently upgraded to navionics+ and like it more. It has all kinds of number already loaded to it (such as the oceanside ARs, dana pipe, etc.. And you can select certain areas to download to your card. On my card, I have uploaded southern cali out to about 40 miles off the coast. From LA down to TJ. And also a couple key places in baja that I go to often.
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06-19-2014, 05:37 PM
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Xcoastie
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06-19-2014, 08:22 PM
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Brandon
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06-19-2014, 09:31 PM
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Xcoastie
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Westminster
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Is there anyway to program in an overlay? So I could manually program in MPLA zones and things like the pipeline?
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06-19-2014, 09:59 PM
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Made in U.S.A.
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Dana Point
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Their webapp shows the pipe with Gold, and a lot more depth contour lines with Plus. Not sure why it doesn't show the pipe on the fish finder with Gold.
http://www.navionics.com/en/webapp .
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06-19-2014, 03:32 PM
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Location: Camarillo
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How much was upgrade to navionics+?
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06-19-2014, 03:33 PM
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Brandon
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: San Diego
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$99 I believe
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06-19-2014, 04:00 PM
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06-19-2014, 04:08 PM
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Brandon
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: San Diego
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Yes it is, and gold has an annual fee as well
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06-19-2014, 04:16 PM
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Made in U.S.A.
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Dana Point
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So better off getting the Elite without the Gold card, and then buying the Plus card separately instead.. but it's $99 per year?
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06-19-2014, 04:30 PM
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Brandon
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: San Diego
Posts: 2,345
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Option 1) Buy your unit with the gold mapping, if you can get it for a good price. Then after a year, upgrade to plus.
Option 2) decline the gold card, and go straight for the plus because the maps are more descriptive. Depends on the deals you can get on the included gold card when you buy unit. But the $99 is well worth the better maps in my opinion |
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06-20-2014, 05:23 AM
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Brandon
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: San Diego
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They may have integrated the numbers on the gold maps, however my version of gold last year, did not have em
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Hybrid Mode
