Steve,
    I have downloaded OziExplorer on my laptop and paid the shareware fee (about $75, i think), and it has worked extremely well for me. It allows you to digitize in existing charts, or get the electronic charts (i have some of each), create and edit waypoints and routes, and move them back and forth between your GPS.
    It also does the real-time position plotting, which is great fun -- last summer, I left La Conner at 2:00 a.m. and navigated out of the channel to the south, watching my position on the laptop (and carefully watching markers and shoreline as well). It's way cool ;).
    Its a lot of software for the money -- www.oziexplorer.com

Loyd Myers
M-17 334 "Whippersnap"

Steve & Diana Parsons wrote:

Does anyone on the list have experience with GPS mapping software. I bought a Lowrance GPS/Sonar unit, and am curious if anyone knows the tricks that would be most beneficial for creating maps/routes/waypoints/etc.. Answer offline if this is too off topic. Regards, Steve