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The difficult choice of electronic charting

Which to choose ? Raster ? Vector ? What costs, for which application, how to Navigation ? As many questions as most of you arise, and rightly. I will try to shed some light.
While visiting my website pages devoted to charting (¹) my website allows to obtain all the information and links to various suppliers, a synthesis is needed here.

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iNavX vs Navionics Mobile (Updated)

Many users are wondering what differences justify the price differences between these two applications. Actually, several points raised question :

Navionics charts associated with Navionics Mobile application are strictly the same as those used by iNavX.
The application Navionics Mobile is included with charts purchased from the iTunes AppStore, then they must be purchased separately with iNavX.
The price of cards purchased from the site of iNavX Fugawi x-traverse.com [...]

Navionics new offer on AppStore

The 23 December, Navionics has posted on the AppStore new charting apps for iPhone and iPad. This offer fully replaces the previous, without the possibility of updating.
The new version is now numbered 1.0 and is to buy for all customers, including owners of previous versions. In return, it reduces the number of apps because areas coverage are significantly enlarged.

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View the currents on electronic charts ?

I voluntarily under this article as a query. Many users, from all countries, are interested in viewing the current in Richard Ray's apps. Actually, there is no display function of the currents in GPSNavX, MacENC and iNavX. It is a deliberate choice of the developer because the current data sources are many and all hydrographic services do not accept to provide their files [...]

Navionics 46XG Region updated

X-Traverse support, Fugawi charts download website , announced by mailing the update of the region whose 46XG folio of maps covering Western Europe.
In France, I noticed that SHOM charts most recent had been taken into account, as the map of the Gulf of Morbihan (ex-7034) replaced in January 2009 by chart 7137, According to new hydrographic survey [...]

Actors of the electronic charting

Navionics, C-Map, BlueChart, MapMedia… You agree that it is hard to navigate all these electronic charting brands. Who is who ? What works with what ?
To help you see things more clearly so I took some time to locate the main actors, ultimately, provide us these wonderful charts that avoid storing pounds of paper. place free, and ecological [...]

Chart management with MacENC

Manager cards MacENC can use several types of cards at the same time, each type consisting of an independent folder.

ENC charts in ENC catalog (ENC_ROOT, ENC_ROOT1, ENC_ROOT2, etc.)
The raster charts in folders that you previously created.
The Navionics in predefined folders per region for download.

I gave the steps to follow to download and install maps on my CNE site in the [...]

Print charts with GPSNavX / MacENC

Both applications offer direct printing of screen content. It is very convenient to print a chart, whatever the scale used to screen. Actually, Print this concerns only the chart content visible on screen, excluding pop-up windows. Generally it must first choose a print in landscape, and then use the File menu > Print.

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ENC User Permit, What is ?

The « permis utilisateur » of ENC charts is a unique identifying number attached to a device, or application, able to read the chart data encrypted ENC (S-63 format). This « User Permit » is required to record a system (chartplotter, chart reader, software) and allow to generate, for charts purchased, a single authentication code to use these charts to the referenced system. Le permis utilisateur (User Permit) [...]User Permit

Enable and use the Navionics Gold with MacENC

To use the Navionics Gold with MacENC from site x-traverse.com (*), must first be subscribed to an account and purchased a (or) folio(s) maps on page « Our Pricing » this site.
In order to activate and download, you must use the application X-Traverse you can download here in French.
1 Activation and download
Once installed the application X-Traverse, close MacENC if you opened it [...]