![]() ![]() The years of development Garmin put into the ActiveCaptain app and hardware integration are probably why all its aspects have tested quite well for me so far, and Garmin also took the time to build feature explanations and setup guidance into all the platforms. will want to have, even if they only use a few features. The bigger picture: ActiveCaptain the app is a bundle of goodies that most every Garmin boater - cruisers, fishermen, racers, etc. It seems very likely that more merging of the two ActiveCaptains will happen, but, for now, Garmin just seems to have used the good name. So while the info that’s now called the ActiveCaptain Community is fully available in the Chart section of the ActiveCaptain app, just as it was in BlueChart Mobile (BCM), AC data does not (yet) appear on AC-enabled Garmin displays, and other aspects of the old AC, like eBoatCards, remain solely on the recently overhauled site. In fact, the app has been in development at Garmin for three years, and Garmin only acquired ActiveCaptain last May. Note that ActiveCaptain the app is very much about integration of mobiles with Garmin marine electronics, and so far not particularly about the excellent ActiveCaptain crowdsourced cruising information many of us associate with the name. Here’s what the new ActiveCaptain page looks like on a Garmin display, in this case a GPSmap 742xs. In short, when Garmin touts ActiveCaptain as an “all-in-one” app, they are not exaggerating! On the other hand, the charts, which allow you to plan trips wherever you are now, cost nothing, as long as you already own the same area on a compatible WiFi-enabled Garmin display - a major feature called OneChart.Īnd finally the Helm tab is just like the standalone Helm app that has long allowed Garmin owners to view and control their WiFi MFDs with their phone or tablet when on the boat. ![]() Meanwhile the Chart tab is very much like the BlueChart Mobile app Garmin introduced in 2012, except the weather features are not included (yet). Using and/or sharing QuickDraw crowdsourced depth data also got a whole lot easier, and more. The Dashboard offers a set of utilities like setting up the novel Smart Notifications, as well as familiar tasks like Software Updates that used to be much harder to do. ExpertGPS can calculate distances and areas, plot the elevation profile of your hikes, and export your GPS data to Excel, other programs that use GPX files, and to ArcGIS and AutoCAD.Let’s start with a peek at the three major tabs in the free Garmin ActiveCaptain app, as seen above on my Android phone (click the image larger for more detail). ExpertGPS lets you quickly edit the names of your GPS waypoints, clean up your GPS tracklogs,Īnd save your GPS data to your computer for safe-keeping. ![]() You can use the Go to Address commandĬonnect any Garmin, Lowrance, or Magellan GPS receiver, and click Receive from GPS to see all of your GPS data on the map. As you scroll around the map and zoom in and out, ExpertGPS will automatically download maps of the area you are viewing. Select Australia from the list,Īnd ExpertGPS will display a map of Canberra. To download unlimited maps of Australia, download and install ExpertGPS.Ĭlick Go to Country. How To Download Maps of Australia For Your GPS New features were added to ExpertGPS on July 7, 2023ĮxpertGPS runs on Windows 11 and Windows 10. Download now and start your free trial of ExpertGPS 8.52 ![]()
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