Opencpn and CM93 charts on windows

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I am having enormous trouble getting the charts to display, they show in the chart files, and chart groups tabs of the options drop down. I am obviously doing something wrong. BTW, no GPS in laptop, but it shouldn't stop the charts from displaying I guess as long as I select an area with the cursor.
 
What have you done so far? If the charts are OK then installing Charts should do it -


https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/d...ual:charts:chart_files_tab#installing_charts1

Chart folder should look like this -

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solent clown said:
I am having enormous trouble getting the charts to display, they show in the chart files, and chart groups tabs of the options drop down. I am obviously doing something wrong. BTW, no GPS in laptop, but it shouldn't stop the charts from displaying I guess as long as I select an area with the cursor.
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Not sure what you are doing wrong Mark,but you are correct that the charts should display without a GPS input.
 
I imagine you already know that the CM93 charts are out of date, but i'll mention it anyway. If you get along with OpenCPN the Visit My Harbour charts are good value.
 
thanks guys, I got it working well enough to decide I will be taking the plunge and buying a proper set of electronic charts, and a tablet to run them from. I seem to remember Paul recommending a particular cheapy tablet.
Hoolie, those look perfect, and cheap too! Paul, visit my harbour is a useful site, I use it often to familiarise myself with places we plan to visit.
 
solent clown said:
thanks guys, I got it working well enough to decide I will be taking the plunge and buying a proper set of electronic charts, and a tablet to run them from. I seem to remember Paul recommending a particular cheapy tablet.
Hoolie, those look perfect, and cheap too! Paul, visit my harbour is a useful site, I use it often to familiarise myself with places we plan to visit.
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Argos always seem to be selling "refurbished" 10" Lenovo tablets on Ebay for about £80-90. Hard to see how they are refurbished, but they work and come with a 12 month warranty from Argos.
 
I took the plunge today, bought a cheapy tablet from Argos, not as trying an experience as I had imagined, it was very quick and easy.
I downloaded open cpn, then tried to buy a set of charts from the o-charts site as recommended, but ran into difficulties as the last three on mty card have rubbed off and for the life of me I cannot remember the number! As a stopgap, in my impatience, I downloaded navionics, just the trial version, and I must say I was very happy with it, so we might go that route, once the boss has had her say. The hurried purchase was partly the result of schooling Karen in chart navigation yesterday, and the less than total success of my teaching. Hopefully with the tablet as a backup she can see where she is going wrong and get used to paper. i think the main problem for her is the slowness of a boat and her wish to progress along the coast!
 
solent clown said:
I took the plunge today, bought a cheapy tablet from Argos, not as trying an experience as I had imagined, it was very quick and easy.
I downloaded open cpn, then tried to buy a set of charts from the o-charts site as recommended, but ran into difficulties as the last three on mty card have rubbed off and for the life of me I cannot remember the number! As a stopgap, in my impatience, I downloaded navionics, just the trial version, and I must say I was very happy with it, so we might go that route, once the boss has had her say. The hurried purchase was partly the result of schooling Karen in chart navigation yesterday, and the less than total success of my teaching. Hopefully with the tablet as a backup she can see where she is going wrong and get used to paper. i think the main problem for her is the slowness of a boat and her wish to progress along the coast!
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I have the VMH raster charts and the O-Charts (vector), i much prefer the VMH charts. So much so, i shall be buying a new set so that i can install them on the tablet that currently only has O-Charts.
 
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solent clown said:
I took the plunge today, bought a cheapy tablet from Argos, not as trying an experience as I had imagined, it was very quick and easy.
I downloaded open cpn, then tried to buy a set of charts from the o-charts site as recommended, but ran into difficulties as the last three on mty card have rubbed off and for the life of me I cannot remember the number! As a stopgap, in my impatience, I downloaded navionics, just the trial version, and I must say I was very happy with it, so we might go that route, once the boss has had her say. The hurried purchase was partly the result of schooling Karen in chart navigation yesterday, and the less than total success of my teaching. Hopefully with the tablet as a backup she can see where she is going wrong and get used to paper. i think the main problem for her is the slowness of a boat and her wish to progress along the coast!
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Navionics and Opencpn is actually a good combination imho, cm93 charts if you just want to pay for one set of updated charts, did you pay for OpenCPN? The free version is ancient with no bug fixes, real version costs little anyway .
 
GHA said:
Navionics and Opencpn is actually a good combination imho, cm93 charts if you just want to pay for one set of updated charts, did you pay for OpenCPN? The free version is ancient with no bug fixes, real version costs little anyway .
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we used the old version, just to see if we would get along with an electronic chart. Playing with navionics today has us both convinced, for me for the ease of use, for Karen, the other bits about blogging/togging that she can use.
 
We had a bit more of a play with navionics today, and are now convinced it is the one for us. There are a lot of neat little extras in the menu that are good for Karen,
the option to take pics to cross reference with the route log and show that in her blog to come were the real clincher! Any pitfalls with navionics? Seems very easy to use so far.
To be clear we are using navionics app not open cpn running navionics charts
 
solent clown said:
We had a bit more of a play with navionics today, and are now convinced it is the one for us. There are a lot of neat little extras in the menu that are good for Karen,
the option to take pics to cross reference with the route log and show that in her blog to come were the real clincher! Any pitfalls with navionics? Seems very easy to use so far.
To be clear we are using navionics app not open cpn running navionics charts
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The route finder thing is clever and generally seems to pick a good route providing you've put in your draft. I'm not sure how well it copes with tides but that not something that I have to worry about. :)

Richard
 
solent clown said:
We had a bit more of a play with navionics today, and are now convinced it is the one for us. There are a lot of neat little extras in the menu that are good for Karen,
the option to take pics to cross reference with the route log and show that in her blog to come were the real clincher! Any pitfalls with navionics? Seems very easy to use so far.
To be clear we are using navionics app not open cpn running navionics charts
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We knew that, cos Navionics won't work with OpenCPN :):very_drunk:
 
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