good idea. there are free viewers for S57 or converted ENCs but they won;t
accept position input. the cheapest one i found whcih would was about
$400....the $200 version i nearly orderd turned out not to have that ability
either. Nobeltech Admiral V-8 has that ability....if i didn;t Grandfather
into it i would never have been able to justify the cost though.
Fugawi or Ozzi claim to be able to do it but they are still hundreds of
dollars. C-map is deffinately proprietary...just don;t resell what you make.
rick

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:42:33 -0800, Tamaroak
wrote:
Why doesn't someone come up with an adapter cord that connects a cheap
DVD players loaded with those charts to a C Map NT+/BlueChart/Navionics
chip adapter thingy so those of us with chartplotters that use these
antiquated systems can access all those charts without buying all of the
individual chips?

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The electronics of creating your own C-Map chips is not all that
complicated so the real challenge would be to create some software
that would convert NOAAs ENC vector format charts (free) into C-Map
chips that you could plug into your chart plotter. I'd be surprised
if someone doesn't try to do it. There may be licensing issues
however since I believe the C-MAP format is proprietary.