Commodore Joe Redcloud© wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:28:01 GMT, Gary wrote:


Commodore Joe Redcloud© wrote:

What vector charts were those?

One of the great things abot Vector charts is you can add or subtract
overlays with as much or as little information as you like. When you
zoom in or out, you can even set them so that notations either zoom in
and out with the chart, or stay one size.


Commodore Joe Redcloud©


DNC produced by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The add or subtract feature is great for a Nav team but for one guy
sailing along in a strange place constantly fiddling with the computer
to get info is distracting and time consuming. Light characteristics,
for example, require one to mouse over the object and a window opens
that obscures other stuff.


That sounds like a poorly designed piece of software you've got there!
I single hand a lot of the time, so I'm the team. I can turn light
characteristics on and off with a single muse click or a key
combination.


Commodore Joe Redcloud©
That is my point, the single mouse click etc. On a dark rainy night, in
narrow waters, I like to just look. Taking a glove off and reaching
under some protective cover to do "just a mouse click" sucks.

It is not the siftware that limits this, it is the ISO approval that
demands it.