AIS on Lighthouses, Buoys etc

[tillergirl]

For those of you that don't follow my Notice to Mariners service on the East Coast Forum because you are not on the South-East Coast, there is a NtM from Trinity House this week listing all their AIS set-ups on Aids to Navigation. I have created a PDF download of the list which is country-wide (well it's more than just East Coast - coverage isn't yet all round the coast) on my web site. You can get it at:

http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

First item in the 2014 list under week 6. Hope it helps.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

This is surely one of the best uses of AIS. So much debate about its usefulness in ship to yacht situations but having a constant and dynamic update of navigation marks is a major benefit in the era of electronic charts. Thanks Roger for keeping us up to date. Any chance of making it a PDF download? I store your downloads directly on the iPad I use with Navionics charts, brilliant for flicking between the chart and your chartlet or other aid to navigation.

 

[tillergirl]

I've made the list a PDF download. You can click on the link on the right hand side of the notice. Or did you want the whole notice? Or where you thinking of an illustration of positions?

 

[FullCircle]

Most excellent. I knew it was a great idea to try this out.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

I've made the list a PDF download. You can click on the link on the right hand side of the notice. Or did you want the whole notice? Or where you thinking of an illustration of positions?

When I click on the download link it opens this web page on the ipad which isn't like your PDF downloads which I open and store in iBooks http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

 

[prv]

I know an increasing number of aids to navigation are having their positions broadcast via AIS. What I can't quite figure out is why this is seen as especially useful. Surely you already have the position of the buoy on your chart? If, as most people do, you're displaying AIS on a plotter, it will just draw a little diamond over the buoy symbol, and what have you gained?

Is it just an attempt to propagate buoyage changes before they make it into chart corrections (which I guess is kind of useful) or is there something I'm missing? Most of the Channel buoys that now sport AIS haven't moved in the few years I've owned charts of the area.

Pete

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Things move on the East Coast rather frequently! Having AIS on the Deben and Ore bar buoys for example would be excellent. A number of the Thames Estuary buoys are moved each year and the wind farms would be better marked if they had AIS. Digital chart updates are generally issued in June and November incorporating changes made about six months previously.

 

[tillergirl]

When I click on the download link it opens this web page on the ipad which isn't like your PDF downloads which I open and store in iBooks http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

Umm, not sure I really understand. ipad have always seemed to me to be a triumph of marketing over common sense but I accept that I am the only one in step. One that page 9 of my web site in the Notice to Mariners there is a link to the pdf file which should give you access to it as a download. Does it not do that?

 

[prv]

I think the Kipper is after this link: http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/Trinity House Notice to Mariners 3 of 2014.pdf

Pete

 

[tillergirl]

Well that is certainly the one. He's just got me worried though. Is that not visible on an ipad like it would on a laptop etc?

 

[MoodySabre]

Well that is certainly the one. He's just got me worried though. Is that not visible on an ipad like it would on a laptop etc?

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This is how it appears on an iPad.

PRV's link opens ok on its own

 

[tillergirl]

And can it be downloaded?

 

[MoodySabre]

I am playing with the boss's new ipad which has no ibooks that Kipper refers to. I can save it as a jpeg in my photos or save it to my reading list. Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.

 

[tillergirl]

Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.

How strange. But then I use a lot of pdfs.

 

[bikedaft]

I am playing with the boss's new ipad which has no ibooks that Kipper refers to. I can save it as a jpeg in my photos or save it to my reading list. Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.

Get the kindle app

Then, when you view a pdf via safari it asks you if you would like to view in kindle app

And/or you get an email address to mail .pdf's to, that are then readable via your kindle app

At least that's how i've got it to work

To the OP - thanks!

 

[Ian_Rob]

Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.[/QUOTE]

......I have Adobe Reader on my iPad??

 

[Leighb]

Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.

......I have Adobe Reader on my iPad??[/QUOTE]

And I on my iMac

 

[Rivers & creeks]

I think the Kipper is after this link: http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/Trinity House Notice to Mariners 3 of 2014.pdf

Pete

That's the one. I clicked on "download here" and it opened a web page not the PDF. All sorted now.

As for the unforgivable comments about the iPad! It's our plotter, tides tables, library of chartlets, almanac, web browser, TV, digital radio, ebook reader, and it means I could watch episodes of Top Gear from Netflix sat in the wheelhouse on the long motor from Dover to Brighton last year. Priceless not expensive.

 

[MoodySabre]

Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.

......I have Adobe Reader on my iPad??[/QUOTE]

Oh good. It's not my toy and its only been hers for 6 days. Some surreptious playing is required! Thanks

 

[prv]

Apple don't do pdfs as you would know them.

I'm not sure how anyone else knows them, but PDFs are deeply baked into OS X. So much so that I believe the basic graphics drawing system of the OS itself (that which causes windows and icons to appear on the screen) borrows from the PDF format. If you take a screenshot it appears as a PDF. Every application can print to PDF natively, and always has been able to since the OS was invented. PDF crops up all over the place, because in many ways it's the basic, default document and graphics format of the platform. Even really obscure things, like the way you can nominate a shell script as a virtual printer - how does the script receive the document data? Yep, as a PDF.

"Apple don't do PDFs", indeed. It's other OSes that don't do PDFs, as they need third-party tools to deal with them.

Pete