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Does anyone know of a detailed world chart available that works with MacENC and/or GPSNavX? When I was still on the dark side and using MaxSea they had several, including one (I believe C-Map) that was detailed enough for passagemaking except for the landfalls. The one with GPSNavX is not nearly as detailed. I've looked on the net but haven't found one. In fact I couldn't even find a 'world' chart.
Scot
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Scot,
My apologizes... I just went to the web site I quoted you and it appears they are out of business... all the requests link to Maptech.
Maybe GPSNavX knows of another source?
Regards,
Jim
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Sadly Maptech bought Marineplanner (and took many folks chart credits) and basically shut them down. Even the free US charts they now provide are unusable on a Mac. Very disappointing because marineplanner was a great source of International charts.
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ARCS has almost exactly what I want - six or so charts that essentially cover the world. However I really don't want to use two apps (MacENC and PassegePlus) switching between the two for planning/longer passages and landfall/coastal. Just too much hassle.
I had tried MarinePlanner and was able to download one North Pacific chart from Maptech that DID work with MacENC (it was a .exe self extracting file that I dumped into VirtualPC to extract) but all of the rest of the ones I tried to download ran into 'technical problems', so basically Maptech :evil: stuck it to us.
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IMAPS SoftChart Coastpak region 450 contains "International Charts of the World."
I'm using it with GPSNavX.
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The IMAPs is the same one previously offered by MarinePlanner and bought out by Maptech. I tried to get it some time ago but Maptech is no longer producing Region 450 (or apparently any other Softchart regions) and I haven't been able to find a retailer with one left.
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chartworld.com may have an S-57/S-63 one, but I find their web page so difficult to navigate. If you are able to find one on chartworld contact me directly and I will give you assistance on loading it into MacENC.
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I agree about Chartworld. I've spent a little time looking there but I'll try some more. If I find anything I'll let you know. Their site always seems to go into an endless loop when I try to go into the catalog using Safari, but seems to work with Firefox. Don't know what's going on there. Regardless, it's still hard to find what you want.
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OK, I tried Chartworld. I actually downloaded their Chartbrowser and ran it in Virtual PC. It's much more user friendly, but slow as a dog in vPC. Anyway, there weren't any S-57/S-63s to be found covering the broad oceans, whether 'official', Navionics, or otherwise. They only exist in Paper or ARCS. I also went to the ic-enc and Primar/Stavanger sites and confirmed there. Since these appear to be generated country-by-country no country has apparently taken on themselves to create the large scale oceaning charts, similar to what C-Map has done. Hopefully the Brits will eventually convert their raster versions to enc. Until then looks like we're out of luck, unless someone has some other ideas.
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Thanks Jim. There are some very interesting ones in there. Are these all Marine Planner downloads (i.e. public?)
I've found a place that claims to have some Softchart Region 450 (global planning) coming. It they actually show up I'll let people know. In the interim, if I find I already have some that you don't I'll go ahead and post them. I'd love to find some more for the South Pacific, plus some larger overview charts.
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Great Scot... if I come up with any more I'll post it here and upload the files.
Cheers,
Jim
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Chart 21140 added to Mexico and Central America.
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New charts added to the database.
Returning users the IP has changed. New IP 70.70.163.137
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Very nice idea your wired server Jim :wink:
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Hi All,
Maptech MEDCD04 Algeria and Tunisia (2002).sitx
Maptech MEDCD03 IBIZA - MALLORCA - MENORCA (1999).sitx
Thanks Karl.
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Jim,
Finally got on and was very pleased to find the Softchart_World charts. They appear to be the world planning charts I was looking for when I started this discussion. Next to download are the BC charts, since I'm headed there for the summer in a few weeks.
I'll look through all of my charts to see if there's anything I can add.
Scot
btw - anyone know why I can't auto-logon to this board? I can to the other boards I visit, but even checking the box everytime I log in doesn't seem to work.
