Andy
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how can i display my position, on the laptop (chart), using a magellan 315 or garmin 120?
gps & laptop
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You'll need the following:
1. A chart display program such as Navmaster
2. An electronic chart or charts
3. A cable between your GPS and the PC
That lot will cost about £500.
Install program and charts, connect cable between gps and pc, configure gps to talk to pc and bingo, you'll have your position on a chart on a pc.
Regards
Chris Enstone, Rival Spirit
1. A chart display program such as Navmaster
2. An electronic chart or charts
3. A cable between your GPS and the PC
That lot will cost about £500.
Install program and charts, connect cable between gps and pc, configure gps to talk to pc and bingo, you'll have your position on a chart on a pc.
Regards
Chris Enstone, Rival Spirit
david_bagshaw
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Much cheaper way
visit www.oziexplorer.com about 80 $ for the registered version , but the test version is not too disabled to give a through idea of its capabilities, to scan your own charts and connect to lap top & display. you can see the results on my own web site, addy below.(in voyages, and page down to chart of Tyborøn) Have used for the last 2 1/2 years now, a wonderful piece of software.
try it and see.
intrestingly, i found out about it from this BB from just such an enquirey.
david
See my web site www.yachtman.co.uk
visit www.oziexplorer.com about 80 $ for the registered version , but the test version is not too disabled to give a through idea of its capabilities, to scan your own charts and connect to lap top & display. you can see the results on my own web site, addy below.(in voyages, and page down to chart of Tyborøn) Have used for the last 2 1/2 years now, a wonderful piece of software.
try it and see.
intrestingly, i found out about it from this BB from just such an enquirey.
david
See my web site www.yachtman.co.uk
seahorse
New member
Re: gps & laptop OZIEXPLORER!!!
Yes, I think it was me who told David about Oziexplorer.
Forget the rest!!
I use a Garmin45 in the cockpit interfaced to a Tillerpilot & an Acer laptop on my chart table (needs an invertor).
A "Black Widow " scanner was cheap enough to complete the outfit Lots of advice on the Oziexplorer site.
Let me know if u have any probs.
Yes, I think it was me who told David about Oziexplorer.
Forget the rest!!
I use a Garmin45 in the cockpit interfaced to a Tillerpilot & an Acer laptop on my chart table (needs an invertor).
A "Black Widow " scanner was cheap enough to complete the outfit Lots of advice on the Oziexplorer site.
Let me know if u have any probs.
kdf
New member
Depends on what you really want to do:
- If all you want is to display your position on a moving chart then use Oziexplorer. This product was originally designed for walkers and climbers and is good at what it was designed to do. You will have to scan and allign the charts for it as I don't believe there's a service for compatible charts for this product.
- If you want to do more then buy a product designed for navigating on the water (Seapro, Navmaster, mapsea etc). These all have tide tables, good route planning, pop-up info on marks, obstructions, ability to hide/show different features/layers etc, good support for marine charts (ARCs, vector charts)
As in everything you get what you pay for. To to the various sites and download their demo's. You can play with the features and then decide what best suits your needs.
-kevin
- If all you want is to display your position on a moving chart then use Oziexplorer. This product was originally designed for walkers and climbers and is good at what it was designed to do. You will have to scan and allign the charts for it as I don't believe there's a service for compatible charts for this product.
- If you want to do more then buy a product designed for navigating on the water (Seapro, Navmaster, mapsea etc). These all have tide tables, good route planning, pop-up info on marks, obstructions, ability to hide/show different features/layers etc, good support for marine charts (ARCs, vector charts)
As in everything you get what you pay for. To to the various sites and download their demo's. You can play with the features and then decide what best suits your needs.
-kevin
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You will have to scan and allign the charts for it as I don't believe there's a service for compatible charts for this product.
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Yes, he is right, and David should have mentioned that you will also need ImageAssembler (URL'd from OziExplorer site) and you can then scan and stitch PERFECT maps. Mine are better than ARC, due to my better scan depth, and I can do a SC portfolio 11/12 charts, in about 2 hours.
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- If you want to do more then buy a product designed for navigating on the water (Seapro, Navmaster, mapsea etc). These all have tide tables, good route planning, pop-up info on marks, obstructions, ability to hide/show different features/layers etc, good support for marine charts (ARCs, vector charts)
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OziExp has great route planning, pop-up info, including photographs, etc etc, but does not have tide tables. But then, those commercial products he mentions do not have full tidal information either - they have tidal data for ports (which I have in a £15 package) but not proper tidal planning, which DOES come with the top end packages (costing well over £1000 with charts extra) as they have an awareness of full tidal data (cotidal tables etc.). Additionally, OziExp does all those nice things like getting the best scale map on screen for your position, automatically going to the next chart to save navigating off the edge of the world - nasty thing to do! Some of the commercial packages do that not so well.
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As in everything you get what you pay for. To to the various sites and download their demo's. You can play with the features and then decide what best suits your needs.
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Now, there, I agree completely. Just don't let negative postings push you into spending loads on more than you need. Incidentally, if you are going to use a laptop - have you thought about how you will mount it so that it is truly usable when tacking in a stiff breeze? You know how things go flying about, you don't really want your laptop going the same way!
David B (and modest me) use the laptop for planning, and the Yeoman plotter (yes! you have guessed it, I use the same paper charts which I scanned in to the laptop) for on-board navigation. Yeoman plotter is the biggest, highest res display on the market today, and tomorrow.....
PS, 'twere DB who saved me £100's as he may be saving you now!!
You will have to scan and allign the charts for it as I don't believe there's a service for compatible charts for this product.
<end snip>
Yes, he is right, and David should have mentioned that you will also need ImageAssembler (URL'd from OziExplorer site) and you can then scan and stitch PERFECT maps. Mine are better than ARC, due to my better scan depth, and I can do a SC portfolio 11/12 charts, in about 2 hours.
<snip>
- If you want to do more then buy a product designed for navigating on the water (Seapro, Navmaster, mapsea etc). These all have tide tables, good route planning, pop-up info on marks, obstructions, ability to hide/show different features/layers etc, good support for marine charts (ARCs, vector charts)
<end snip>
OziExp has great route planning, pop-up info, including photographs, etc etc, but does not have tide tables. But then, those commercial products he mentions do not have full tidal information either - they have tidal data for ports (which I have in a £15 package) but not proper tidal planning, which DOES come with the top end packages (costing well over £1000 with charts extra) as they have an awareness of full tidal data (cotidal tables etc.). Additionally, OziExp does all those nice things like getting the best scale map on screen for your position, automatically going to the next chart to save navigating off the edge of the world - nasty thing to do! Some of the commercial packages do that not so well.
<snip>
As in everything you get what you pay for. To to the various sites and download their demo's. You can play with the features and then decide what best suits your needs.
<end snip>
Now, there, I agree completely. Just don't let negative postings push you into spending loads on more than you need. Incidentally, if you are going to use a laptop - have you thought about how you will mount it so that it is truly usable when tacking in a stiff breeze? You know how things go flying about, you don't really want your laptop going the same way!
David B (and modest me) use the laptop for planning, and the Yeoman plotter (yes! you have guessed it, I use the same paper charts which I scanned in to the laptop) for on-board navigation. Yeoman plotter is the biggest, highest res display on the market today, and tomorrow.....
PS, 'twere DB who saved me £100's as he may be saving you now!!