DepthScout Find a lake Research Blog Pro
Sign inSign up free

Contribute depth data

If your depth finder has been logging while you fish, you're sitting on real bathymetry. Send it in and we'll fold it into the chart, with your name or association on the page as the source. Clary Lake in Maine got its 30-foot hole this way, from an association member's ten-year-old survey files.

How it works: DepthScout reviews every file before anything changes on a chart. Good data gets built into the page and credited to you. Nothing is blended in silently, and community data never masquerades as an agency survey. That's the same standard behind every chart here: see how we build these maps.

1. Which water is this from?

2. The depth file

Whatever your unit or software exports works: GPX or CSV track logs, Lowrance .sl2/.sl3, Humminbird .dat, a zip of everything. Up to 100 MB.

3. About you (optional)

By sending a file you confirm you collected the data and give DepthScout permission to publish charts derived from it, credited as you specify. We never sell your data. Questions first? Email cody@depthscout.com.