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Linz NZ charts updated in Marine GeoGarage

Yesterday I downloaded the "Ship Tracker Lite" for my iPad. As I checked out the ship location data I pondered... What is the possibility of adding this type of functionality to iNavX. So this morning I found marinetraffic.com and saw they are getting ready to support a "data interchange"..... I think it's more than just receiving AIS data from a static receiver. If overlaying AIS data were doable it would be an excellent ad for us who don't have AIS on board and were in cell phone range. Could it be an optional overlay? We charter some and the boats we get on don't have AIS. Sometimes we sail at night and in less than perfect weather. This would be just one more layer in our safety net.

Thanks!

This is good news and will allow MacENC and iNavX to support Canadian marine charts from Navionics in the very near future ..

http://www.chs.gc.ca/announcements-annon...30-eng.asp

I'm running MacENC v8.00. I noticed on the screen shots page of the web site "Display of both vector and raster charts". When I click on "view" raster and world base charts are checked but grayed out. Only Navionics Charts is able to be checked and unchecked. When I uncheck Navionics Charts, then I'm able to see the raster charts. My question is, how do I do what I see in your screen shot... overlay both raster and vector?

yesterday i bought a license to give polar navy a try on my sailing boat in croatia/adriatic sea.

many things work fine, some don't.

BUT what is really a problem, is that my boat position on all charts i have (maptech and official croatian BSB charts) is offset by about 0.22 nm to the east. This makes it useless for real navigation.

The charts work fine with GPSnavX and the image download (nice idea!) shows the boat at the right position (gmap).

So I think this may be a problem with the right datum of the chart. Is there a way to adjust this?

Any other suggestions?

Thank you

Matthis

Handy tip if you want to have PDF documents available on your device..

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4227

I'm thinking of taking an Airbook cruising, but I need to input audio from the SSB (for fax decoding) and connect an iridium phone (for email). The satphone has a serial connector.
The first isn't too difficult, but how about the second? Serial/Bluetooth adapter?

Wondering if NEMA data can be brought to MacENC via ethernet cable, specifically using a Raymarine SeaTalk hs Network Switch. See link here:


http://www.raymarine.com/ProductDetail.a...oduct=3064

Thanks!

A terrific upgrade to the app would be the ability for it to recognize one has arrived at a waypoint and then automatically (or after user acceptance as with RayMarine chart plotters) navigate to the next waypoint in a route rather than having exit the chart, go to the route tab and tap on the next waypoint in a route.
If this is now doable, how is it done?

I used the app for the first time on a trip. On the first leg I was not navigating to a particular waypoint and noticed that the ribbon compass at the top was completely different than the digital "Heading Magnetic" read out of the heading I was on (the digital was correct).
On the next leg I navigated to a waypoint and they were in sync. What am I doing wrong? I did have the "Pos. Icon Kept Visible" off. Did that have something to do with the problem?