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I do know the tools, terrain mapping and such.įound AquaMap.which also provides the USACES survey data.which covers areas the ENCS/RNCs may not have.

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In the past I did terrain software, and even helped with user manual for MaxSea in a previous life. So back to the apps, like OpenCPN and others.

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Most commercial apps (on chart plotters) are not updateable via the web, and the cost of updates (300.00 plus for some cartridges) makes the plotter updates not very feasible. I am fussing with the ENCs/RNCs on OpenCPN.and looking at what the differences are for on the water features.(eye opening).and the fact paper (RNC) are being phased out (five years.but). Army Corps of Engineers Inland ENC ĭavid, great blog comments.

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The "qt" part means it is developed using the Qt cross platform software tool-as such, I believe the convention is to pronounce this "Cute VLM."Ĭorporations/organizations offer a number of charting related products The name "qtVlm" comes from Vlm standing for Virtual Loup-de-mer, which is an online sailboat racing simulator that can be used to participate in actual live races, such as Sydney-Hobart, Transpac and many other global races. Its interface and presentation of the ENC objects and attributes is one of the best.

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(1) qtVlm is an amazing full function free navigation program, well documented, with many sophisticated features including optimum sailboat routing, tides and currents, Gribbed weather and ocean forecasts download and display, and georeferenced graphic image import. These seem to be gone now-I suspect largely pushed aside by OpenCPN and qtVlm, which have become such a powerful programs.įor now the shortlist that meets our criteria is so far: In these old days, the free versions were often called "voyage planners" in that they would show the charts and let us set up routes and so on, but no live GPS. The other few left on the list also no longer have a free version. Memory Map was one of the first ever echart programs, in that it formed the basis for what is nominally the first one from MapTech, years ago. Memory Map Navigator is still a fine product, but no longer has a free version-we used Memory Map for very many years in our courses, before the time that OpenCPN developed. Two popular ones, Fugawi and Polar View, ended support in 2019. In the original 2013 version of this article we had a list of over 20 products, and for now I will just leave these links here at the end, many of which are defunct. These are called S-63 format ENC, whereas we are restricting to S-57 ENC. (4) We are not requiring live GPS functionality, just chart viewing, and we are not requiring coverage of encrypted ENCs or RNCs sold by other nations. These are essentially the same viewers we see at their chart selection options (see /getcharts). Click the (i) icon on the ENC viewer to get into a cursor pick mode. Thus we do not count several online viewers, notably the NOAA viewer for ENC and their NOAA viewer for RNC. (3) Must be stand alone product for PC or Mac or mobile device. Prices range from $50 to $2,000 or so, with several popular products in the $300 to $500 range (Coastal Explorer, Time Zero, WinGPS, to mention just a couple we are familiar with.) Most all of the commercial products include some free demo period that serves to show the unique features they offer, and indeed it is worth checking out a few contenders. (2) Must be truly free, not just a temporary demo. A popular example of these would be the many Navionics products. These can be quite good and the products cost effective, but they are not included here. A large number of these commercial ECS use third party vector charts that they produce themselves based on the official charts. (1) Must show either or both official RNC and official ENC. To clarify our shortlist amongst these hundreds, we have these criteria: Together this is called an electronic navigation system (ECS).

There are hundreds of computer and tablet programs that display echarts in some form and also accept a GPS signal for moving map navigation.