Anyone have experience with the Texas One Map put out by Standard Mapping?

Standard Mapping - Texas One Map

I've got a Garmin Echomap UHD 94SV on my 21' center console. Fish primarily in the Rockport/Corpus area. Bays/shallow water. Looking to expand my time on the water and places I go. Wondering if this map is worth it.

Looks like there are two versions. Classic and Premium.
Premium has more detail and costs more $$...

Are the detailed maps any good? Having a hard time to see the last time they were updated..

Just another gimmick to take $350-$450 out of my wallet?

Thx SW '86

I have the classic for my Garmin 942xs. It is fantastic. Well worth the money.

Strong wind, did you buy the map? I'm interested in this as well

Have not purchased the map yet - Looking for more feedback...
Trying to understand the differences between the Classic and Premium.....

I got it for Christmas and have only used it a couple times with my Lowrance HDS-9 LIVE. I got the Premium.

I fly fish from a poling skiff in the LLM, so a GPS is little more than an expensive speedometer when you can always see the shore and can almost always see the bottom. I was happy for for years with no GPS, however, when we took our TexAgs Everglades back country trip, GPS was a requirement. I bought the Florida Marine Tracks from Isla and it was awesome. There was detailed imagery, every landmark, and tons (I mean TONS) of tracks all through the glades. That place in crazy and without that GPS I'd still be there.

Coming back home, the base map sucked. For LLM around Port Mansfield, half the bay shows up as dry land. It is not an accurate depiction of the bay system if you are in a tunnel hull boat. I had to have that satellite imagery; it's very addictive. In my limited use: The imagery is quality. I can't really tell how dated imagery is because not much has changed around here. All navigational markers, marked obstructions, stuff like that are there. I have yet to find any 'proven tracks' but our fishery doesn't really need that - maybe there aren't any, maybe I haven't activated the layer, I'm not certain. Also, in my limited use, I haven't seen any 'local contributions', like unmarked obstructions: a piece of oilfield pipe, a sunken barge, stuff like that. On Florida Marine Tracks it would not be shocking to find a note "Bob spun a prop here and drank a 12 pack waiting for George to tow him in". The level of contributions to the map was nuts - Texas One isn't that, but again, the fishery doesn't lend itself to it. I can absolutely see sandbars, guts, passes, channels and TONS of bottom feature in the imagery - so I'm happy.

tl;dr A couple trips in, and using the LLM as the example: I am not sure the jump from Standard to Premium is worth it if 'proven tracks' or local contributions to the mapset is what you are looking for. Your fishery for your fishing style may be totally different. For satellite imagery basemap with all the markers, waterways, and navaids, it makes your GPS come alive.

Thanks for the summary CP90.

Agree with the limited resolution with the "factory" basemap on a lot of the shallow water bays around where we fish. I'm always looking at Google Earth before our trips trying to find my way around. The Garmin is pretty amazing when it comes to its accuracy and repeatability. I think the addition of the aerial maps will be helpful navigating around new areas and finding the reefs/sandbars/etc. Really want to expand where we fish and have some confidence I won't rip off my lower unit....

Thx again - SW '86

Strongwind86 said:

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I'm always looking at Google Earth before our trips trying to find my way around. .... I think the addition of the aerial maps will be helpful navigating around new areas and finding the reefs/sandbars/etc. Really want to expand where we fish and have some confidence I won't rip off my lower unit....

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Then buy it and don't look back; like hook60 said - you'll love it.