It's been my experiance that you must use the card reader, and any file created for a specific card can only be use on that card. MC7 is extremely particular in how you create and save maps. I'd since heard that there were map files available, but I've quit crossing the border so now I've no need. Not sure how that could work, but that's impression I've been left with.Īs far as I could determine NO ONE in 2001 had Lowrance maps files for Baja. I've not run back to back tests, but my SOP impression is that MC7's files may be smaller for the same detail level. Matters not to my range of trips, but that might to some folks. MC7 comes on one dvd instead of MC5's two CD's. They say that you have to use the LEI reader as it does some file translation, but I could see the files on the card just from windoz so I dunno. My MC5 used a funky card reader that plugged into a parallel port or serial port (I forget which) and had a jumper in the mouse connector. I'm in the planning stages of a Fall trip and that will be a better test of how useful the information actually is. I've only had it out for a local desert race last weekend, and I know that area all too well to bother referring to the GPS. Having the roads I'm actually driving on shown on the map is something only my Garmin has been able to do until now. Being able to even have topo lines on the display is new to me. I've only just started to use the MC7 myself.
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