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Thank you Jeannette!

But I still cannot open the NOAA files because they are in the .KAP or BSP
formats...

What am I missing here???

Claus
"jeannette" wrote in message
...


hmmm...Fugawi is not a freebie...it's $199. per their website
http://www.fugawi.com/docs/navframe.html


The ENC Viewer est gratuit

http://www.fugawi.com/viewenc/viewenc.html

Jeannette
Bristol 32, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html

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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:54:30 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Thank you Jeannette!

But I still cannot open the NOAA files because they are in the .KAP or BSP
formats...

What am I missing here???

The ENC Viewer is for ENC charts.

You need this one: http://www.marineplanner.com/freeviewer.cfm

Jeannette
Bristol 32, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html

USA Electronic Charts and software?
 

"jeannette" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:54:30 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Thank you Jeannette!

But I still cannot open the NOAA files because they are in the .KAP or BSP
formats...

What am I missing here???

The ENC Viewer is for ENC charts.

You need this one: http://www.marineplanner.com/freeviewer.cfm

Jeannette
Bristol 32, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html

USA Electronic Charts and software?
 

Jeannette,

Now I am even more befuddled...I downloaded and installed
SoftChart_Viewer....and it only reads charts with the file suffixes of .nos
and .geo, which I would guess are the proprietary file formats for that free
viewer..

Help...

Claus
"jeannette" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:54:30 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Thank you Jeannette!

But I still cannot open the NOAA files because they are in the .KAP or BSP
formats...

What am I missing here???

The ENC Viewer is for ENC charts.

You need this one: http://www.marineplanner.com/freeviewer.cfm

Jeannette
Bristol 32, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html

USA Electronic Charts and software?
 

OK - finally figured out what the problem was...I had simply ended up with
the wrong download from NOAA... sigh

The "Chartserver" is where the ENC charts are available...and I can read
them fine with the free Fugawi viewer..


Cheers,
Claus

"cvj" wrote in message
...
Jeannette,

Now I am even more befuddled...I downloaded and installed
SoftChart_Viewer....and it only reads charts with the file suffixes of
.nos and .geo, which I would guess are the proprietary file formats for
that free viewer..

Help...

Claus
"jeannette" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:54:30 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Thank you Jeannette!

But I still cannot open the NOAA files because they are in the .KAP or
BSP
formats...

What am I missing here???

The ENC Viewer is for ENC charts.

You need this one: http://www.marineplanner.com/freeviewer.cfm

Jeannette
Bristol 32, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html

USA Electronic Charts and software?
 

cvj wrote:
OK - finally figured out what the problem was...I had simply ended up
with the wrong download from NOAA... sigh

The "Chartserver" is where the ENC charts are available...and I can
read them fine with the free Fugawi viewer..


Cheers,
Claus

Snip

That's amusing, I couldn't figure out where you'd managed to download Kap
files from the NOAA site. All I could get from there were ENC charts!

Kap files in BSB format can be imported and used by Oziexplorer, just for
the record!


Dennis.

USA Electronic Charts and software?
 

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:01:42 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Gordon,

1. I downloaded the NOAA maps and installed them - the files show up with
the file suffixes of .KAP and .BSP


The .KAP/.BSB charts are the "normal" vector format charts used by
most marine chart programs used by pleasure boaters.

There is a free program called "SeaClear" that will display these,
available through my GPS/NMEA website listed below.


--
Peter Bennett VE7CEI
email: peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
GPS and NMEA info and programs: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/index.html
Newsgroup new user info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq

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EUREKA!!! SeaClear plus the Maptech charts works for me...

Thank you Peter!

Claus
"Peter Bennett" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:01:42 -0800, "cvj"
wrote:

Gordon,

1. I downloaded the NOAA maps and installed them - the files show up with
the file suffixes of .KAP and .BSP


The .KAP/.BSB charts are the "normal" vector format charts used by
most marine chart programs used by pleasure boaters.

There is a free program called "SeaClear" that will display these,
available through my GPS/NMEA website listed below.


--
Peter Bennett VE7CEI
email: peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
GPS and NMEA info and programs:
http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/index.html
Newsgroup new user info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq