AngusMcDoon
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If anyone gives details the mods will immediately delete it and the perp sin-binned, because they are illegal pirated copies.
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If anyone gives details the mods will immediately delete it and the perp sin-binned, because they are illegal pirated copies.
Nicholas123
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Well, the suggested search on this forum will reveal hits of which at least one is free from PUP.
Scanned by Malwarebytes and antivirus program regularly. On a known good server, no torrent or download managers forced on people (don't ask how I know ):anonymous
What is PUP? it sounds like a sort of juvenile canine diarrhoea.
Nicholas123
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I bought a replacement stern light for my boat a few years ago & it seemed like a direct copy of the old one made by a Chinese Company, the only difference being that they had made the holes too bloody small to get the wires to go into. :disgust:
It is a great pity that the mods can't do anything about that!
laika
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I've not done it and don't know anyone who has, but if you have access to an appropriate scanner *I believe* you can scan your paper charts for use with OpenCPN:
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/book/export/html/44
Whether that technically violates copyright if you're doing it with your own charts you've paid good money for for your own personal use I don't know but I don't think many would be morally outraged.
AngusMcDoon
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No, it won't. You have paid for the information.
Nicholas123
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I have a scanner that can scan A3 I think A4 documents but there is no way I could scan anything like the size of my rag tag collection of charts. I checked out your link & it looks very complicated. An interesting concept if you had say a small treasure map you wanted to scan.
Nicholas123
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OK I have got what I think is called a small chart portfolio of the Solent & surrounding waters so if you can actually scan them (because you have already paid for them) How about (& this dos'nt sound unreasonable to me) if you were able to access their website & get charts for a chart plotter in that way?
I shall look up the details of my portfolio & see if they have got a website when I am down my boat later today but I think it's a very well known portfolio so I should think it's very unlikely that they would'nt have :encouragement:
Of course even then you'd have to prove that you bought a legitimate copy I suppose which would mean a receipt going back about ten years in my case
Nicholas123
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Update: Did'nt go down my boat yesterday because it was raining & the work I had to do was outside but remembered my small chart portfolio was by Standford. Do thy do chart plotting software./charts? Anyway that avenue might be covered by a kind benefactor :encouragement:
Next stop see if my etrex picks up a signal from inside the cabin this afternoon & if not buy one of those on a long lead mentioned here for outside work. Have seen some for fifteen quid
Am toying with the idea of buying one of those internet radio things for the Radio + AIS but the setup procedure looks very complicated & it would probably drive me nuts.......looking forward to GHA's report.......mind blowing stuff
Next stop see if my etrex picks up a signal from inside the cabin this afternoon & if not buy one of those on a long lead mentioned here for outside work. Have seen some for fifteen quid
Am toying with the idea of buying one of those internet radio things for the Radio + AIS but the setup procedure looks very complicated & it would probably drive me nuts.......looking forward to GHA's report.......mind blowing stuff
Tranona
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Stanfords was bought by imray a long, long time ago, so I expect your charts show distances in leagues and depths only measurable by lead lines! The Imray software and chart portfolios I mentioned earlier are the 21st century equivalents.
Nicholas123
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You have touched on a sore point there. I only really go sailing to get away from the 21st Century & probably live most of my life in the past.Certainly I find our nautical ancestors the most inspiring so In that regard I suppose I am a romantic.Time machine anyone?
Tranona
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Ditch the lap top, pack the ships biscuits and lemons to guard against scurvy and off you go.
GHA
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You're allowed to do both
Something like opencpn on a laptop is a great way to play around with passage plans at home without having to haul piles of charts around even if you don't turn it on onboard.
laika
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Are you sure about that? Whilst it would seem logical, it is still technically illegal to rip your own CDs for personal use on your iPod. I *thought* they'd done away with that years ago but nope, apparently still the case:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/21/govt_messed_up_home_taping_exception_so_badly_it_needs_to_start_again/
That's not to say that charts are covered by the same rules as music but the principle is surely the same.
quark-elec
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Somebody combine Opencpn with Google Map, so he can see Google satellite images on OpenCpn, which is very cool. But I did not get it worked on my laptop.
GHA
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AngusMcDoon
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Just spoken to UKHO. Leisure users are allowed to make an electronic copy of a paper chart for your own personal use, including in navigation software. However, being a typical civil service beuracracy, you have to obtain a license from them to do it legally, which is free if you have paid for the paper chart. And then you have to renew it every year!
http://www.ukho.gov.uk/copyright/onlineapplication.aspx
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st599
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OpenCPN is a very good, free chart plotter, BUT the UK government (unlike the US and many other countries) don't give the chart data away for free. Visit My Harbour will sell you a stick for low cost with all the UK on it.
quark-elec
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Thanks st599. I have get GE plugin successfully installed in OpenCPN, Everytime I click 'GE' icon, OpenCPN crashed. Anybody have this problem before? OpenCPN is V4.0, which is the latest one.
GHA
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Google made some changes to GE so opencpn can't hack into it using the same method it used to, fix here...
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f134/google-earth-plugin-doesnt-start-google-earth-147750.html
Nicholas123
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Update: I managed to load Lubuntu onto the laptop & it seems to run faster than my home pc so now the worlds my oyster, maybe..........
Anybody know if this thing can be run on Linux https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foxnovo®-R...refRID=0BPQPWE7GXNE9SQWZPF7&ref_=pd_sim_23_24
GHA you said you were going to try it out? It sounds like it might be fun to play around with + the CPN software & associated free charts if I ever manage to get my hands on them.
Anybody know if this thing can be run on Linux https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foxnovo®-R...refRID=0BPQPWE7GXNE9SQWZPF7&ref_=pd_sim_23_24
GHA you said you were going to try it out? It sounds like it might be fun to play around with + the CPN software & associated free charts if I ever manage to get my hands on them.
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