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Are there any plans for integrating the Koden Radar PC product to do Radar overlay in MacENC? Radar overlay really seems to be the only thing missing from many computer based solutions vs the proprietary route.

I absolutely agree. This a major feature missing from MacENC / GPSNavX vs hardware plotters and some of the more advanced PC apps.

I looked at doing this as a separate application a couple of years ago, and, in principal it looks really straight-forward. The Koden radar has an ethernet interface, and the API is really straight forward.

I never pursued it as my Objective C skills are utter pants. Having said that, the guys from Koden were really helpful.

If GPSNavX were to look at doing this now (and I'd certainly encourage this functionality for both Mac and iPhone based apps) then it would be worth looking at coding for broadband radar as well.

Just my two-pennies worth...

P.S. My other two wish list items are:

• on-chart tidal flow and height indicators (this data is present in the Navionics chart packs)
  

• weather routing using GRID and tidal data
  

I guess there is no comment?

I too would like to see "black box" radar capabilities in MacENC. I have the Nobeltec Admiral system with PC radar and would switch back to MacENC as my main nav program if it had this feature. As it is, I'm running Nobeltec on my MB and soon on a mini. Works fine, but I'd like to get rid of the windows requirement.

What's more, with a simple wi-fi setup you could have radar data (via ethernet) and NMEA data (via serial to ethernet adapter) accessible wirelessly either via a Mac or via, dare I say it, an iPad.

ReeferJon Wrote:P.S. My other two wish list items are:

• on-chart tidal flow and height indicators (this data is present in the Navionics chart packs)
  

• weather routing using GRID and tidal data
  

and logbook function ;-)

Ok, we'll try this one more time with new information...

What about Radar support with the Koden product or the newly announced Navico Broadband Radar SDK ?

Yes this is something we will look at. Often times the SDK's are MS Windows centric (i.e. DLL's), but often the producer will provide source code. We have similar project going on supporting Actisense NGT-1 N2K gateway.

Fair enough, I have been in DLL hell before as a developer myself. Thanks, keep us posted.