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

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

"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

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

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

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.

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

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

Thank you Peter!

Claus
"Peter Bennett" wrote in message
...
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