On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:56:40 +0000, Larry wrote:


Now, you're telling me this is all nonsense and we should keep plotting
with a pencil because that's the way we've always done it. I think that
is just stupid. If it saves one boat a year from crashing into that
container in the dark, it has paid for itself many times over....

No one is talking about plotting anything by pencil. My point is that
NOAA's free BSB charts are good enough and there is no need to change
the technology. ENC/Vector has its uses but we have that already as
well. I agree that photo overlay capability would be nice and it
will probably happen soon. It's already available on the web.

http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/

There are licensing issues with the photo images that need to be
resolved among other things.

Have you seen Active Captain at:

http://www.activecaptain.com/

Jeff Siegel, W1ACA, has done a nice job with it.