Step 1. Unzip your download to a folder in your documents on your computer/laptop. You may need a free unzipping program like winzip or WinRar or 7zip to do this. ( don't get sucked in to pay for it) Extract them to the folder you chose on your PC. ( Right click & look for unzip or extract)

Step 2. Copy the new ( UNZIPPED ) folders to your Micro SD card.

( I use sandisk and Samsung 32gb in the HDS)

32Gb is the maximum size the latest HDS Live & Pro accept to read data.

16Gb for the older Elite Ti2 model

The MICRO SD card now gets put into your Lowrance Chart Plotter.

These maps won't work in Humminbird or Garmin. ( Sorry)

Step 3. Depending on what map you have, utilise your built in maps ( Navionics or C-Map) and zoom in to that location. ( Or if you live at the lake map you purchased)

You find your maps in > More options > Chart Source ( on the HDS model). If you purchase several maps you may see the names like Lowrance If you see "Lowrance" click on that

You will not see the Lakes maps Titles listed , you will only see " Lowrance"

Step 4. By now you are back to a white screen.

Look in your settings , might need to go "back" & maybe just above your Charts and look for > Chart Options > Shaded Relief . Give it a tick/ tap (maybe an orange triangle in the corner appears & so does your new imagery) (Get used to doing this for other maps) Check tutorials below.

Simrad users select "Insight" as your main Chart Source, and then find "Shaded Relief"

Step 5. If you are struggling and still only get the white screen, zoom in closer starting at Step 3 again.

Step 6. * **** Troubleshooting Further****

Check the file you copied onto the card is NOT the .Zip file.

*If you have a Navionics or C-Map card, remove it from the machine to test these maps ( Their card encryption overrides everything maps)

*Maximum size sd card is 32GB

**** This fix has been done several times now to get the maps working**** In the Chart Plotters Main Settings ( The gear cog picture) for some models is sometimes a tick box in Charts for a YES/NO display option. Make sure it's YES.

*Ensure your files are inside the the file/folder on the card exactly as when you unzipped. You only want to see the location names. Not the data contents. names all over the card. Take your time copying the main folder, some folders have many sub folders of data in them.

If you bought 5 maps, you will see 5 folders on your card.

*Do not reuse and copy to an old Navionics card you might have. It has encryption that will not allow the maps to be seen in the Lowrance.

Step 7. Any new additional maps will have to go through this procedure to add the shaded relief notation to them. Get familiar with those chart options button locations & you will wizz through it. The rest will disappear into the system under the title "Lowrance". ie say you got , C-Map, Navionics , " Lowrance" that is normal.

INFO : Sometimes a good old turn it off and on again solves everything. There have been cases where I have not zoomed in far enough for a new map and ended up unticking the "shaded relief" option & had to re-tick it to see the imagery. So it will happen, it may get muddled but you will get there. But once you are up & running and your zoom maps are visible you don't need to go to Shaded relief. You just flip between the maps in either the area you are fishing at or by searching for an area manually on your chart plotter. Like doing a search on the internet

Some users with the Older Ti2 models have mentioned the map quality looking a bit poor. Yes the chart plotter machines like all screens get better quality resolution & bigger processors each new model. And the "low tide maps are a lower resolution than the general satellite maps so there will be quality differences.