April 7, 2007 17:08
IMHO, the navigation chart world is just at the beginning of the move to the “open” world. The current players Raymarine et al have always been proprietary in their approach and will hang on to that until they die. The “open” world will provide lower cost solutions than their proprietary world even can. Just look what happened to the proprietary mini-computer world. I would suggest the best approach is to ignore their proprietary formats.
Ray
Ray