July 17, 2005 05:26
Great to hear! S57 support came faster than expected. :-)
At first I was disappointed too that it is a new program, but as GPSNavX team stated it has been in development since over 1 year and that it´s a new written program. So a second program isn´t that bad as it appears as it looks like the program works quite the same way as GPSNavX. So no big learning curve here.
As for the price it´s really ok!
If you look at the ideas wrote in another thread (ideas for GPSNavX) I would even pay more for it!
The only real problem I have is if MacENC will compatible with S-57 (ENC) from private companies. As original professional (commercial navigation) S-57 charts are quite expensive, several 100-1000 Euro per region.
On the other hand the French SHOM hydrographic institution wants from 2006 on publish ENC charts which are cheaper than paper charts, as the new French laws (2005) allows for electronic charts instead of paper charts!
At first I was disappointed too that it is a new program, but as GPSNavX team stated it has been in development since over 1 year and that it´s a new written program. So a second program isn´t that bad as it appears as it looks like the program works quite the same way as GPSNavX. So no big learning curve here.
As for the price it´s really ok!
If you look at the ideas wrote in another thread (ideas for GPSNavX) I would even pay more for it!
The only real problem I have is if MacENC will compatible with S-57 (ENC) from private companies. As original professional (commercial navigation) S-57 charts are quite expensive, several 100-1000 Euro per region.
On the other hand the French SHOM hydrographic institution wants from 2006 on publish ENC charts which are cheaper than paper charts, as the new French laws (2005) allows for electronic charts instead of paper charts!