Databases

Here in Florida, we have packaged FishWhere with large regional location databases. These were assembled by researching internet websites that included the county artificial reef programs (updated in 2008), fishing websites, online magazines, the federal government shipwreck registry, etc. Closer to our home base in Bradenton, many locations are derived from our personal experience and "horse-trading" in the fishing-buddy networks.

If you already have a large location database, you can easily export/import FishWhere locations to/from your Magellan, Lowrance, Garmin, and many other GPS units using EasyGPS software that is free on the internet.

FishWhere is also packed with many Map Layers that can be displayed with your locations - see below for a virtual listing.

Not in Florida? No problem - FishWhere can be used anywhere, and we'll package coastline data for your area (note that we also have a Great Lakes data set). You can easily add your local locations from any source to FishWhere and create your own location database.

We have formed a partnership with the Reel Nauti fishing team, and they have provided their extensive offshore location database (1000's on Florida's west coast) that we are now offering as paper charts or as optional add-on FW digital locations to our software customers. See the ORDERS page for details on all of these. Please check the website soon as we will be adding many more charts!

Standard Fishing Locations Provided with FW 2.0

Florida is broken into nine regional databases which you can review in the slide show below.

The Map Layers Provided with FishWhere 2.0

Any organization dealing with spatial/map data will utilize a Geographic Information System (GIS) to manage it all these days. Most governments, whether federal, state, or local, and most universities utilize GIS in a major way. Since these are public entities supported by our tax dollars, much of this information is published to the internet in standardized formats where it is avaliable for free. FishWhere utilizes many of the most common GIS formats, so we've found anything relevant to fishing and packaged it with FishWhere. Keep in mind that you do NOT need to pay continuing maintenance or subscription fees to us to access these maps. Although we have done all the hard work already and packaged a wide range of maps in FishWhere, you can easily find additional information yourself and add it to the FishWhere GIS map. You'll certainly want to do this if you are using daily Sea Surface Temperature maps - yes, these are now free on the internet, and we'll tell you where to find them and how to layer them in the FishWhere map - it is easy!

We have created a large map database for Florida that includes Water Depths (bathymetry), 3D "shaded-relief" water depths, coastlines, lakes, rivers, Loran grids, NOAA nautical charts, etc. There are many specialized maps for certain areas, such as coral reefs in the Keys, grass flat locations in the Panhandle, high-resolution water depths in and around Sarasota Bay, etc. You can review some examples in the slide show below.

We are expanding beyond Florida, and now have Great Lakes Coastline and Water Depth maps. We can easily build new maps into the system for your area - let us know and we'll expand there!

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