Free Andriod Charts?

[CJ13]

Plenty of free Apps out there but can anyone recommend a free android chart for the Med, that I can download onto a smartphone?
It will only be used as back up/ planning!

John

 

[V1701]

Never seen any (legal) free charts for Android or anything else. Navionics works well but better on a tablet for bigger screen and is very good value...

 

[JumbleDuck]

Never seen any (legal) free charts for Android or anything else.

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

 

[NormanS]

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

Do they do charts for British waters?

 

[LadyInBed]

The Cmap charts that are available for Windows OpenCPN also work with the Android version of OpenCPN.

 

[Robin]

Do they do charts for British waters?

Nope. NOAA charts areonly for USA waters and very good they are too, vector and raster versions available and you can update as often as you like simply by downloading the latest chart set and the opencpn software automatically uses the newest version from those stored,, leastways on the computer version, not sure about the android one. I transfer mine from the laptop to the tablet via a flash stick and an OTG cable. NOAA charts arein sets by USCG area and can be downlosde free as a set from which opencpn selects the latest from where you have them saved. One of the things the yanks do well, the principle being taxes paid for them so you should not be charged again as a taxpayer. My Samsung tablet is very good but in bright Florida sunlight only the dedicated Garmin cockpit chart plotter display is clearly visible.

 

[NormanS]

Thanks for the explanation, Robin.

 

[SteveSarabande]

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

The original post was for android charts in the med, these are not much use.

 

[SteveSarabande]

The Cmap charts that are available for Windows OpenCPN also work with the Android version of OpenCPN.

Does open cpn work on a smartphone?

 

[JumbleDuck]

The original post was for android charts in the med, these are not much use.

Indeed, but I was responding to a claim that no free charts exist.

 

[LadyInBed]

Does open cpn work on a smartphone?

I see no reason why it shouldn't. It may be Android SW ver dependant, but that would go the same for Tablets as well.
I didn't bother putting it on my phone, as screen size would be a bit small.
I have the charts on the extended memory card on my Tablet, when setting up Ocpn it does take a bit of navigation to point to the chart location, but once found, Ocpn is happy.

 

[ronsurf]

I used an android chart in the Med last year that was free, but it wasn't legal. I paid for the navionics app for a Hudl.

 

[BlackPig]

http://openseamap.org/index.php?id=openseamap&L=1
free legle and covers med don't know how reliable.

 

[Robin]

I see no reason why it shouldn't. It may be Android SW ver dependant, but that would go the same for Tablets as well.
I didn't bother putting it on my phone, as screen size would be a bit small.
I have the charts on the extended memory card on my Tablet, when setting up Ocpn it does take a bit of navigation to point to the chart location, but once found, Ocpn is happy.

I put the android opencpn app on my smartphone but didn't succeed in putting the charts on it so it works instead on google maps/Google Earth, Ok for fishing trips locally in the RIB or in the grab bag if I didn't manage to grab the tablet as well.

 

[karl.e]

Plenty of free web apps. Good enough for planning.

 

[[70521]]

http://openseamap.org/index.php?id=openseamap&L=1
free legle and covers med don't know how reliable.

I wish I had the time to learn how to edit the charts. I use OpenStreetMap and it is really very good and would like to use this on the boat, but not my primary navigation tool.

If anybody knows of a simple instruction manual for this I'd be interested, the online stuff demands time and effort and I am way to busy to put time aside to learn another package.

 

[ffiill]

Never seen any (legal) free charts for Android or anything else. Navionics works well but better on a tablet for bigger screen and is very good value...

Not true-Linz(NZ equivalent Ordnance survey/hydrographic office) charts -can be downloaded for freeand they cover NZ and the south east pacific basin out past the Cook Islands.Similarly Brazilian government ENC charts Not sure if the US RNCs are available for Android as they were for windows.
There is an open CPN version for android which is used by My Harbour for their package of UK charts.

 

[GHA]

There is an open CPN version for android which is used by My Harbour for their package of UK charts.

unfortunately not opencpn, visit my harbour use "Marine Navigator":
http://www.visitmyharbour.com/download-android-charts/

 

[st599]

There are 3 or 4 paid for suppliers that OpenCPN can use for Europe. Most use a broken security model where you need to run a programme on Windows to install a licence key, but won't supply the licence key for anything with a Linux kernel (including Android).

There is one, S63, but you need to purchase each chart individually.

 

[fergie_mac66]

Does open cpn work on a smartphone?

Works perfectly