As part of its policy to offer users a leak ever more efficient and safe, the public institution Waterways of France embarked on the production of electronic navigational charts on various domestic routes in its network. The first two : the link "Dunkirk-Escaut" and "Garonne" is published.
The big surprise, unique in the history of the French administration, is that these cards are [...]
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Manage marine charts on the server x-traverse.com
Since May 2009, Fugawi society has commissioned its download site charts x-traverse.com. Through an annual subscription to have a file storage space, you can buy charts region from multiple vendors, with Navionics Gold vector charts.
Once purchased online, the charts folios are available for TWO YEARS on personal space. They can activate [...]
Connect Miniplex-2USB with GPSNavX/MacENC
The multiplexer Miniplex USB-2 (¹) by ShipModul company can connect all the instruments on board directly to a USB connector on your Mac. GPSNavX and MacENC software can receive and display NMEA instruments, and if necessary forward to an autopilot, a VHF DSC, chartplotter, a Radar or any other repeater.
A utility "Miniplex2" to configure the input channels and [...]
Navionics charts 2011 : new pricing
Delivery of Navionics 2011 has accompanied a significant change in pricing : significant decrease in the price of charts for iPhone, increase for iPad.
Europe regions (43XG, 44XG, 46XG, 49XG) decrease by 60% iPhone and increment 35% for iPad. Surprisingly, the British have their region 28XG for iPhone down only 22% ($31), but more than double for iPad ($84). Damned !
Use your iPhone as a MacENC GPS
We knew how to send NMEA data from MacENC to iNavX on iPhone or iPad (¹), and so to use the instruments on board connected to the Mac to provide position for iNavX.
The reverse is now possible. L'application GPS 2 IP, Capsicum developed by Dreams, can use the GPS with an iPhone 3G or iPad for the position in MacENC. Translated into French, very easy to use, GPS 2 [...]
Navionics Charts 2011
Navionics recent weeks published new versions of its charts regions stamped 2011. A new Navionics charts foldes « Gold Marine Charts 2011 » has been added to the function « Add more charts » iNavX.
These regions replace the previous ones and must be purchased to be able to download. I explained the procedure in a previous post. I recall that the Navionics charts are being [...]
Connect GPSNavX/MacENC with an AIS
It is increasingly common to see an AIS receiver, Automatic Identification System (*), receiver above yacht's chart tables. Although only merchant vessels of over 300 tons and passenger ships are required to fit onboard an AIS Class A transponder, small commercial vessels are increasingly fitted with AIS Class B transponders least [...]
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 [...]
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