February 7, 2010 11:56
OK, I would tend to agree with you regarding the warm and fuzzy raster chart (I too learned to navigate with paper) but the reality is that vector is navigation moving forward. NOAA (or other's) will not be supporting or creating raster in 20 years, that is a pretty sure bet. To address your original post; writing code for new hardware (iPhones, etc.) to optimize raster quilting would not be very cost effective for any developer (are you or anybody you know doing it?) nor would the end result be as effective as running vector on a small screen. Creating SENCs as Navionics has done is a viable solution for handhelds, trying to get full-blown computer functionality on a phone is not-if anybody does it, I'll be among the first to adopt it.