Cap'n 4.5 opens the NOAA charts once you tell it where they are. Cap'n 6.1 (Voyager) will not, I think I remember they must be renamed or some such silly thing but I tried that and it did not work, however it CAN see them just won't open them. Maxsea 12.1 opens them with no trouble, however it will not look in sub-folders for them so you have to move each and every chart out of their single sub-folders that they were un-zipped to after you downloaded them and put all the single chart files in a single big folder one by one, a PITA. Thats what I have found. I did speed it up a bit by extracting only the charts, not the text files, then using a batch program to move them, but it only saves a certain amount of work. A batch robo-move program would be nice, I used to have one but can't find it. SeaClear opens the NOAA charts as well. Open CNP would also I guess if I felt like fooling with it and figuring out how the bloody heck to use it by sorting out the goobelygook that passes for English on the on-line forums! Someone needs to 'get real' there.
So far Maxsea is my fave as it can use both raster (including the fre NOAA charts) and vector charts at the same time and seamlessly blends and zooms the raser charts as well. I also have two versions of Cmap ECS which I like but cannot find newer charts for although one of them has world wide charts, but they are now over ten years old. -Ken _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
