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Brazil DHN update in the Marine GeoGarage

Hi,

User of MacENC and iNavX - love both products. I've noticed a couple of differences between the 2 products that I'd love to be 'fixed' if possible.

Firstly - iNavX shows AIS AToN (Aids to Navigation), but MacENC doesn't. They're trialing a few AToN in the Solent, so if you want some NMEA data for them, let me know and I can capture some.

Secondly - MacENC understands the radar target messages for Raymarine MARPA tagrets and shows them as 'RADAR-1', 'RADAR-2' etc, but iNavX doesn't show them at all.

Cheers,
Rick

I used the on-line service to buy activation codes for $39.99 PLUS a DVD for $19.99.

iportis charged my credit card for the full amount on April 10. I received an email with the activation codes but it is now May 4 and the DVD has not arrived.

There is zero support here. I have asked iportis for help several times; no responses at all. Polar Navy has no means that I can find to ask for customer service.

Does anybody know how to get this resolved?

Hi,
I have Raymarine multifunction display, which offers a native Wifi network. Would anyone know of a way to connect iNavx with that Wifi Network to synchronize waypoints etc... between the two, without the need for an additional Wifi mux ?

Kind regards,
Michel.

Today we are releasing the first public beta of Charts&Tides for Mac. If you are interested contact us to participate in the program. Program participants will have the chance to influence and improve Charts&Tides through their feedback.

You can find more information on our blog:
Navimatics Blog

Bill Zissimopoulos
Navimatics Corporation

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NZ Linz update in the Marine GeoGarage

I recently purchased the 2013 Navionics 3XG Caribbean, Central and South America chart for iNavX. I'm having problems with the values shown for the depth contours not matching the sport soundings in the vicinity. I did a quick search but couldn't find other reports of a similar issue. Does anyone else see this (or not)?

When viewing the area around the UK Virgin Islands, 18° 30.250'N 64° 23.604'W, the contour lines have incorrect depth markers. Based on the spot soundings shown on the chart it looks like the contour values have been incorrectly converted from meters to feet. i.e. if the original value was 30 in feet, but assumed to be meters, then when I have iNavX set to display in feet it takes 30 and multiplies by 3.29 to get feet and displays 98.4 on screen. The same error occurs no matter whether iNavX is set to display in feet, meters, or fathoms.

Attached is a screenshot from iNavX, set to display feet, with markups showing the incorrect depth contours for the above location.

I have no idea if this is an issue with the Navionics chart, the x-traverse packaging of the data, or a bug in iNavX - so I've sent it to all three.

Earlier this week we sailed from Marsh Harbour Bahamas to Daytona Beach Florida going NW through the Abacos. We departed for Florida from an anchorage at Strangers Cay.

We noticed that a waypoint created on the Wavey Line chart Ab - Strangers Cay to Carters Cay = B34 was displaced seven miles or so to the ENE on the Wavey Line Grand Bahamas Overall Chart B148B.

The vessel position and track showed correctly on the Strangers Cay chart, but was again consistently displaced on the larger scale chart. It looked like we were sailing thru land when in ten feet of water on the Grand Bahamas Overall chart.

However, the waypoint appeared normally on the NOAA USA East Charts and the lat long at the waypoint agreed with both my iPad, on board GPS units and of course visual sights.

Other Bahamian waypoints appeared normally on various scaled Wavey Line charts so perhaps the anomaly is limited to this chart group.

Also, the Wavey Line aren't as functional in iNavX as the NOAA charts, i.e no quilting or easy access to different scale charts, and are no substitute for the printed Explorer Charts.

This was our first use of this software, so perhaps there was user error. However, we reset and messed with this waypoint multiple times and the position offset repeated itself every time, and the problem did not replicate for other waypoints on other charts.

The lesson of course is to keep you head out of the cockpit and trust your eyes not some computer.

But if you are transiting Strangers Cut with this software please be very, very careful.

Cap'n John

Is there a way to change the default Waypoint names setup (from WP001..) to something else?
Can edit the name to change to something else but when using several waypoints (setting crab pots) would be quicker to just change the default setting. As the list of Waypoints grow you have to scroll to the end of the file.

Thanks

Is there a way to change the default Waypoint names setup (from WP001..) to something else?
Can edit the name to change to something else but when using several waypoints (setting crab pots) would be quicker to just change the default setting. As the list of Waypoints grow you have to scroll to the end of the file.

Thanks