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I can't believe what a hassle it was for you. Even when they do know what's going on, it's still frustrating to jump through so many hoops for something we should be able to pay for and OWN (just like a paper chart).

I can't wait until these charts are cracked and pirated. The providers don't deserve our cash.

Oh, and hello everyone

not sure a bout the pirating bit, but the whole chart ownership is laughable. especially for UK charts, which we have already paid for as taxpayers to have created, but have to continuously re-buy to use in another application

Imagine buying some music on CD and being told you can't play it on the CD player in the car, or the cd player in your kitchen or office, just the Sony CD player in your living room, and if you replace that you'll have to buy another copy of the CD

the whole chart distribution industry absolutely stinks IMHO

worked it out a while ago, in the last few years I have had to buy the same charts 6 times. On a c-map cartridge for one plotter, a garmin card for another and a navionics for a third one, then another copy to use on a magellan handheld, then copies for a PC and copies for GPSNavX

then add to that the way fixed plotter manufacturers change their card formats and provide no backward compatibility.

It sucks