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From the preliminary info available for iPhone I believe MacENC will be able to run on the new iPhone! This is very exciting.
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MacENC is resolution independent (Quartz) & architecture independent (PPC or intel). MacENC is developed in ObjC/Cocoa (The toolkit for all professional grade Mac OS X applications). Of course Mac OS X apps will not run on the iPhone as is. They will need to be recompiled and adapted to the new user interface (touch) available on the iPhone.
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Google Maps are not usable as marine charts (i hope no one is navigating their boat with them!!). A MacENC version for iPhone would use S-57/S-63 ENC charts. Because the iPhone only has 8GB of storage it would be a challenge to keep many raster charts on it.
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Assuming one has an internet connection. While wifi and cell phone coverage continues to expand, one cannot assume they will have access to Google maps. Even so Google Maps are fine for sharing with friends (i.e.) KML files, but should under no circumstances be used for real-time marine navigation.
Can't speak to expanding iPhone capability. Also this is just iPhone 1.0. One can expect more capability in future versions.
OS X could be the biggest OS if the phone really takes off. Who knew?
Last time I checked Engadet was not a premier member of ADC.
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Looking like a MacENC on the first iPhone will probably not happen..
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/1...questions/
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Actually MacENC will run on the iPhone or for that matter any web browser. It will run as a client to the MacENC OS X application. What this means is you can have MacENC running on your Mac down below and have an iPhone in the cockpit and bring up MacENC remote on the iPhone Safari web browser. You will see the same things you see on the MacENC application (i.e. the Chart, GPS position, waypoints, etc.)
MacENC remote will be included with a future version of MacENC. All registered MacENC users will receive it at no additional cost.
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While I am sure the iPhone is a great device, I am quickly tiring of all the media coverage of no substance. In a couple weeks no one will care.
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Hi Rich,
How's the MacENC Remote support coming along? At the moment, I'm using VNC on my Nokia phone, but it's not ideal.
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Now that the iPhone SDK has been released I believe an ENC application on the iPhone and iPod Touch is possible. In fact the location (using cell towers) API has been exposed. Stay tuned.
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While waiting for the real thing you might want to try vnsea on your iPhone.
This iPhone app lets you control your mac offside acting as a touchpad with iphone functionality, but it also shares the same window. Use ducktape to tape your iPhone onto your ibook and you will have an airbook ;-).
Functionality is a bit moderate especially touching an object at the edges, but it allows you to scroll and zoom. All other actions are in my opinion dangerous to use while navigating.
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Seems Apple is turning down most developers..
Quote:Dear Registered iPhone Developer,
Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your enrollment status at the appropriate time.
Thank you for applying.
Best regards,
iPhone Developer Program
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Received this..
"Thank you for contacting Apple Developer Technical Support...
POSIX is present in the iPhone SDK, Bluetooth access is not part of the iPhone SDK."
So any iPhone nav app will have to use an integrated positional device.
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Could use NMEA streaming over wifi.. with an serial > ethernet bridge..
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We will support real-time positional data by all means available - wifi, cell-towers, GPS receiver.
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