cortez
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I am thinking of buying one, has anybody got or used one.
would like to know your views .
would like to know your views .
c-map pc planner
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rubberduck
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Very good but sometimes can get a duff user card. You can set depth alarms etc on pc, & so plan safe routes from home.
Hurricane
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You dont say what equipment is on the boat.
Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
With this combination tho' you must not use the bigger user cartridge for transferring waypoints/routes etc. It has to be the 128kb user card or the Raymarine plotters wont see it.
Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
With this combination tho' you must not use the bigger user cartridge for transferring waypoints/routes etc. It has to be the 128kb user card or the Raymarine plotters wont see it.
Frontier
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I Use it it seem pretty good, aerial photos of marinas, animated lights, good zoom detail.
If you want some screen shots PM me with an email address. I tried to put some on a photo site to include in my reply but for some reason they all end up too small.
If you want some screen shots PM me with an email address. I tried to put some on a photo site to include in my reply but for some reason they all end up too small.
Frontier
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Hello again Hurricane, did you get my PM
Malcb
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Excellent, as you can save waypoints and routes to the user card, thus easily transferring them to the plotter on board.
I alos use Neptune Passage Planner, which takes the pain out of calculating tidal advantages/disadvantages on routes.
I alos use Neptune Passage Planner, which takes the pain out of calculating tidal advantages/disadvantages on routes.
Hurricane
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Frontier
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
clivew05
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.....Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
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I am sure that this is the Navionics Cards - std, Gold and Platinum - I was asking about these yesterday for the C80, apparently the 3D, and flashing pilots - and marina views are only available in the Platinum card which is about £270 Vs the Gold card which is £100 cheaper at £170 ..... when I upgrade to the Latest Raymarine kit - E80, 2Kw Raydome with Raystar 125 GPS ariel Ill be getting the Platinum ... I can then pretend to go to marinas and look at the pics instead ..... (as the weather is so much Sh*&t at the moment /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
.....Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
[/ QUOTE ]
I am sure that this is the Navionics Cards - std, Gold and Platinum - I was asking about these yesterday for the C80, apparently the 3D, and flashing pilots - and marina views are only available in the Platinum card which is about £270 Vs the Gold card which is £100 cheaper at £170 ..... when I upgrade to the Latest Raymarine kit - E80, 2Kw Raydome with Raystar 125 GPS ariel Ill be getting the Platinum ... I can then pretend to go to marinas and look at the pics instead ..... (as the weather is so much Sh*&t at the moment /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
BlueChip
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Ive got one I am thinking of sellling
Bought it last year together with some CMAP charts I needed, but I never used the planner
PM me with an offer if you are interested
Bought it last year together with some CMAP charts I needed, but I never used the planner
PM me with an offer if you are interested
ctva
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Frontier
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
[/ QUOTE ] I would be interested to find out about your "home brew" software as that is the combination I use currently.
Chris
Frontier
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
[/ QUOTE ] I would be interested to find out about your "home brew" software as that is the combination I use currently.
Chris
Hurricane
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I use Memory-Map software and the Admiralty charts from Maptech. I dont use the actual Maptech software.
I recently upgraded my Memory-Map software to the Pro Version - about £50 I think. No big difference from the usual version but the Pro one includes AIS that I wanted to try out.
I do all my planning using Memory-Map - click click click routes very quickly. I then save (Export) the "Overlay" as they call it to disk as a ?.GPX format file.
I've then written a simple Windows application that massages the GPX file into the ?.RT.XML file that C-Map's PC Planner can read using its File Manager. It will also handle waypoints that aren't part of a route but you have to be carefull not to duplicate names.
It is then a simple matter of writing the data card and loading onto the boat's systems. Using this technique, you can double check everything on the C-Map charts before writing the data card.
I have Raymarine Pathfinders on board and they overwrite any existing data when they read in the data cards - no problem though cos all my source info is stored in Memory-Map format. I even keep different sets of waypoints/routes and load them as I need.
I also have a PDA running Memory-Map software and Maptech charts - this works as an instant planning tool but I have taken this one step further as well. I simply output my routes/waypoints (as explained above) onto the PDA and using a bluetooth GPS the PDA will act as a complete backup nav system during the passage. An additional benefit is that the Memory-Map software inside the PDA also automatically records the track so you have a nice log of everywhere you've been.
Here's an example
Obviously, this is way OTT for just cruising around the Solent but for a X channel trip or extended passage it works well for me.
Let me know if you think that the Windows app will be any use to you - it needs the Microsoft DOT Net Framework installed but thats fairly trivial.
I recently upgraded my Memory-Map software to the Pro Version - about £50 I think. No big difference from the usual version but the Pro one includes AIS that I wanted to try out.
I do all my planning using Memory-Map - click click click routes very quickly. I then save (Export) the "Overlay" as they call it to disk as a ?.GPX format file.
I've then written a simple Windows application that massages the GPX file into the ?.RT.XML file that C-Map's PC Planner can read using its File Manager. It will also handle waypoints that aren't part of a route but you have to be carefull not to duplicate names.
It is then a simple matter of writing the data card and loading onto the boat's systems. Using this technique, you can double check everything on the C-Map charts before writing the data card.
I have Raymarine Pathfinders on board and they overwrite any existing data when they read in the data cards - no problem though cos all my source info is stored in Memory-Map format. I even keep different sets of waypoints/routes and load them as I need.
I also have a PDA running Memory-Map software and Maptech charts - this works as an instant planning tool but I have taken this one step further as well. I simply output my routes/waypoints (as explained above) onto the PDA and using a bluetooth GPS the PDA will act as a complete backup nav system during the passage. An additional benefit is that the Memory-Map software inside the PDA also automatically records the track so you have a nice log of everywhere you've been.
Here's an example
Obviously, this is way OTT for just cruising around the Solent but for a X channel trip or extended passage it works well for me.
Let me know if you think that the Windows app will be any use to you - it needs the Microsoft DOT Net Framework installed but thats fairly trivial.
