Nav update options

John_Silver said:
Have been playing around with the free version of Orca over the winter and like the functionality (and responsiveness of their help desk messaging set up, in aiding exploration that functionality). In two minds whether (currently) available charting detail is sufficient for primary navigation. May be partly presentational.
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I think the thing that concerns me is how difficult it is to discern the solent precautionary zone on the orca chart (and what else of equal importance it might be easy to miss)

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John_Silver said:
Think the £500 Core … it's the key to making a plotter out of your tablet(s), with full integration of AIS/ radar and (I think) all N2K data......
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B&G chartplotters act as a wifi access point like this. I've had OpenCPN on a laptop connected to mine, showing AIS ships it got from my Vulcan via wifi. I believe the B&G mirrors anything it sees on NMEA 0183 or NMEA 2000 as NMEA 2000 sentences over TCP/IP to anything connected to it.

But I've just tried the current state of the B&G apps and they're still completely broken - it's worse than it was 5 years ago! The green bars bug is still present, and now it crashes all the time when trying to view remotely.

Orca are going to eat these guys for breakfast if they don't cotton on fast to the necessity of tablet support in the 21st century.

Anyone know if Raymaine or Garmin have better tablet support?
 
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