June 2, 2009 18:47
ICON Wrote:I have Navionics Gold for my raymarine, navionics gold for my iPhone, do I have to buy even more charts to run on my macbook if I buy MacEnc?
ICON Wrote:ok i've finally worked it out, in order to plot my way from uk to the med on my mac, i have to buy macenc for £150 then 2 folios of charts from navionics for £1200 each. total cost nearly 3K. i may as well get my yacht hauled overland. what a joke.
surely someone know how to hack navionics gold chart cartridges so waypoints, routes etc can be plotted on the mac then put back into crappy old raymarine.
i've just paid £70 for navionics zones 2 and 3 for the iPhone and these won't work with iNav now. this whole thing is becoming a joke.
ICON Wrote:or....
get this
i could buy raymarines plotter (£375) and navionics card reader then i need only ever buy one type of chart and since i already have uk i would only need it for med.
i then need to buy parallells, so defeating the object of ever switching to Mac in the first place, and just put up with the stress and anxiety of XP crashes and freezing all over again. why did navX even go to all the trouble of writing the software if no-one can afford to use it. oh yeah, forgot us gives the charts for free...damn
ICON Wrote:are u seriously waiting for a driver for the card reader, will it really happen? if so i am buying a reader now, and will buy macenc as soon as u have it. the cartridges are so much cheaper than the s57 charts so no prob doubling up on that score. anyway the point is to plot the routes at home then upload to the plotter on the boat.
any idea when this will happen.
hmmmmm....Troll?
ICON, you realize of course that the developers of the SW you refer to are contributors to this board..."hacking" SW is very much frowned upon....