Help wanted with loading charts to OpenCPN...Please!!

[elton]

I give up!

Looks like I'll be deleting CPN again.

I spent all day searching for the chart downloads. Some sites start the download then ask for credit card details. A few sites require you to tick the box allowing it to reconfigure the computer. Some insist on changing internet settings and installing tool bars and other programs.

I really don't know what's safe and what to avoid.

Some people rate it here, I thinks its quite useless if you cant get charts for it!

Cliff

There's no risk-free way to steal copyrighted material.

 

[Puggy]

Following advice on this forum, I bought charts from visitmyharbour.com - they come on an encrypted USB stick with instructions to load. All works a treat. Cost about £50: £25 deposit on the USB stick(you can upgrade he charts in the stick) and £25 for the charts. Seemed reasonable value to me and much more reliable than fooling about in the nether regions of the interweb. Also, just upgraded OpenCPN to v3.2: make sure you do a complete chart database rebuild otherwise he charts will not load properly.

 

[Mistroma]

Ah FFS... Ye needs a bit torrent prog like Vuze or uTorrent, and then ye points yer browser at the pirate bay me hearties....

Then ye searches for the X...

Unless ye be on Virgin then it gets complicated so yer basically ****ed.

Aaargh Jim lad, then ye would have to try another poxy pirate...........

[Pirate mode=OFF]
I mean use pirateproxy.net instead and just slide around the block.

 

[agurney]

I keep loading this highly rated program and end up deleting it. I can never get past loading charts and only have the image of the world.

I'm using Vista. I have a folder called 'chart downloads'.

How do I get charts into the folder- UK Biscay, North Atlantic and the Med?

I have tried the user manual but I can not find any charts to download!

Please point me in the right direction!

Cliff

If you just want to see what the program can do, you can download (free) US charts from http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm and http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/index.htm

ENC for vector
RNC for raster