![]() charts.īy the way, breaking the raster story generated a record number of readers here at Panbo, and for a moment made me feel like Matt Drudge (in a good way). In fact, if I was a Mac person, I wouldn’t think twice about paying the extra $35 for MacENC. I’m looking forward to inexpensive DVDs loaded with both types of free U.S. Please download the version directly from the link. Not to be confused with the REAL PolarView I did a bit of a double-take the guy who runs PolarView has. We have tested i-Boating Mac ENC plotter against several external GPS receivers - bluetooth, USB etc. Right now it’s quite useful to have both RNCs and ENCs for the same area each has data or display features that the other lacks. So well have to help with a little bit of owner-drawing. ![]() There is no separate version of Incredible Charts for Mac Users at present. Eventually-when ENCs are perfected and coverage complete-NOAA will drop raster chart production altogether, even printing paper charts from the vector database (if they print charts at all). Incredible Charts is Windows native software. They’re better than RNCs in many ways, and they’re definitely the future. And users will be able to update those charts weekly if they want (making that easy will be another chance for developers to add value). Now we know that by about next spring Rich and other developers will probably be able to sell their charting software on a DVD that includes the digital equivalent of every single NOAA U.S. paper chart, without any encryption hassels and at little added cost. But after Tuesday’s news about free raster charts, it no longer seems like a big deal. ![]() It was just last week that Rich Ray sent me this screenshot of MacENC, a new version of his GPSNavX charting program that supports NOAA’s free ENC vector charts.
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