April 25, 2005 00:12
Wow! Long post indeed ;-) ;-)
I'm a big fan of GPSNavX, so I'll add my two pennies worth...
1. S57 support (which I believe the developers are working on.) Only thing that worries me about this is the availability and price of UK / European S57 cartography.. it's out there, but is often encrypted, so there could be issues running it with GPSNavX...
2. C-MAP support. I think all all non-US users are crying out for this. However, I think that the real limiting factor hear is C-Map themselves, and their Windows-only SDK. I may be wrong, though... <b>CMAP, please help!</b>
3. Touchscreen interface. OS X is an incredibly sexy UI, and very intuitive. However, when you're being tossed around on deck, and your trying to select menu items on your 8" touchscreen, with Musto sailing gloves on, it can be a tad tricky! A full-screen finger-friendly interface a la MapTech Offshore Navigator would be so useful. Also, slightly larger icons would be useful
4. A zoom / chart select toolbar where you can either increase / decrease zoom, or select larger scale / smaller scale charts of the current location.
.............Chart +
.............../\
Zoom - <.....> Zoom +
...............\/
.............Chart -
5. Tidal data. I agree that on-screen tidal flows would be nice. However, I think this would probably require vector cartography. Current, I use the free Mr Tides X software which is excellent. I'll have to add a link.
As regards to price, I never thought I'd actually say this, but I'd definitely pay more.. GPSNavX at it's current price is an absolute bargain. If there were a "professional" version that included greater functionality, I'd happily pay $99 for it.
GPSNavX.. keep up the good work!
I'm a big fan of GPSNavX, so I'll add my two pennies worth...
1. S57 support (which I believe the developers are working on.) Only thing that worries me about this is the availability and price of UK / European S57 cartography.. it's out there, but is often encrypted, so there could be issues running it with GPSNavX...
2. C-MAP support. I think all all non-US users are crying out for this. However, I think that the real limiting factor hear is C-Map themselves, and their Windows-only SDK. I may be wrong, though... <b>CMAP, please help!</b>
3. Touchscreen interface. OS X is an incredibly sexy UI, and very intuitive. However, when you're being tossed around on deck, and your trying to select menu items on your 8" touchscreen, with Musto sailing gloves on, it can be a tad tricky! A full-screen finger-friendly interface a la MapTech Offshore Navigator would be so useful. Also, slightly larger icons would be useful
4. A zoom / chart select toolbar where you can either increase / decrease zoom, or select larger scale / smaller scale charts of the current location.
.............Chart +
.............../\
Zoom - <.....> Zoom +
...............\/
.............Chart -
5. Tidal data. I agree that on-screen tidal flows would be nice. However, I think this would probably require vector cartography. Current, I use the free Mr Tides X software which is excellent. I'll have to add a link.
As regards to price, I never thought I'd actually say this, but I'd definitely pay more.. GPSNavX at it's current price is an absolute bargain. If there were a "professional" version that included greater functionality, I'd happily pay $99 for it.
GPSNavX.. keep up the good work!