Garmin Launches Quickdraw Community

Marine electronics manufacturer Garmin has introduced a free online user-generated platform called Quickdraw Community, where users can browse and share HD mapping content, and download the data free of charge to enhance their existing Garmin mapping options.

The Quickdraw Community builds on the company’s Quickdraw Contours software feature, which allows mariners to instantly create personalized HD maps with one-foot contours on any body of water. “Garmin customers have been collecting Quickdraw Contours mapping and depth data on their devices since the free software feature became available earlier this year, and now they have a way to easily share that data with others,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales. “Not only is Quickdraw free and easy to use, but thanks to Garmin Panoptix all-seeing sonar technology, it’s the only map sharing platform to use multi-beam sonar recordings for high-quality, accurate and complete HD contours.

Creating Quickdraw Contours allows users to instantly see contours with labels generated right on their screen as the boat moves along, with no need to upload files for remote processing. The results can be viewed in real-time, and show where usable depth information has been collected and where gaps still exist, so users can easily see what areas of their favorite lake or river still need to be collected.

The collected data can be stored on any off-the-shelf SD or micro SDTM card, as well as existing Garmin BlueChart g2, BlueChart g2 Vision and LakeVü HD Ultra cards.

For more information, visit garminconnect.com/quickdraw.