I have recently purchased a Echomap50S to extend my fishing results and to map the lakes i fish. Previously I had access to a Lowrance HDS7 and with the exported sonar recordings i made mighty fine looking depth maps with a tool called Surfer from Golden Software from raw exported x,y,z coordinates.
Along with the Echomap there was delivered 2 pieces of software; Homeport and BaseCamp.
I have made a few trips with the Echomap50S recording 4Gigs of sonar data. Now i want to get my hands on the sonar recordings.
In Homeport i can replay my sonar recordings and i can export the recordings, but the data does not contain depth.
Here is a segment of the first 10 datapoints
ID,trksegID,lat,lon,ele,time,magvar,geoidheight,name,cmt,desc,src,sym,type,fix,sat,hdop,vdop,pdop,ageofdgpsdata,dgpsid,Temperature,Depth,wtemp,hr,cad,
1,1,55.335812224075198,11.637971140444279,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
2,1,55.335812391713262,11.63797264918685,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
3,1,55.335812726989388,11.63797415792942,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
4,1,55.335812978446484,11.637975834310055,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
5,1,55.335813062265515,11.637978013604879,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
6,1,55.335813062265515,11.637978265061975,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
7,1,55.335813481360674,11.637980611994863,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
8,1,55.335813984274864,11.637982707470655,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
9,1,55.335814235731959,11.637984132394195,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
10,1,55.335813984274864,11.637989077717066,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
In the playback i can see the depth just fine.
Any tips on how i can get my hands on the depth data ?
In december 2011 there was a feature request regarding depth in the thread
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?22868-How-would-you-have-us-improve-HomePort&highlight=homeport+depth
about depth data in the export function - but this was apparently not implemented even 3 years later.
BR
Jens
