"Nav_Quest" wrote in message
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On Oct 7, 4:35 am, "Capt. JG" wrote:
"cavelamb himself" wrote in message

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wrote:
You can go to NavQuest.com and download all the charts you want FREE,
save as a .GPX

Other links:

Marine Chart Download -http://navquest.com/marinecharts.html

Is this for real, or jut me?

The site would display but could nopt find files for download.

(Besides being slow and clunky to use)

Trip Planning -http://navquest.com/trip.html

Float Plan -http://navquest.com/floatplan.asp

Marina Map -http://navquest.com/marinamap.asp

Dive Sites -http://navquest.com/divesite/divesite.asp

Shark Attack File -
http://navquest.com/sharkattackfile/sharkattackfile.asp

World of Boating Radio -http://navquest.com/cms/cms.asp

Regards,

Gaspare

I was able to download charts in PDF. I guess that's useful. the trip
planning was lame.

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Please give more details on "lame" Constructive criticism is always
welcome.

If you are here just to devalue a free product for the point of making
a point no need to respond. I posted here to get feedback not to
squabble with the boating community.



I'm not devaluing something that is already free, but fair enough, although
I think you should be less sensitive and more curious. Lame is a reative
term, which means some important things are missing or poorly designed.

Lame specifically means that for trip planning entering two city/marina
names and getting two lats/longs isn't particularly helpful. A straight line
isn't going to tell me anything, not even giving me an approximation about
duration or how to steer. The planning beta doesn't seem to do much or is
broken or the UI is too hard to figure out.

The trip check doesn't seem to work, even including the export function to
gpx. It's exporting xml.

The float plan is minimal information and seems to what the gpx file.

The marinas on the west coast of the US are missing in action, and the UI is
very slow. You've switched from a drop down list to tabs. Why? The marinas
that are listed overlap so much that it's hard to tell which is which. The
dive site and shark attack sections has the same basic problems... lack of
completeness and difficulty in navigation.

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and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard

On Oct 7, 5:19 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard

What link are you going to?

http://www.navquest.com

Regards,

Gaspare

Nav_Quest wrote:
On Oct 7, 5:19 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:

and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard


What link are you going to?

http://www.navquest.com

Regards,

Gaspare


I was using (from the first post)
Marine Chart Download - http://navquest.com/marinecharts.html

This brings up the chart and nav window. Seems to work ok.

clicking on the "click here to download NOAA charts" takes me to
the charts menu - ok.


I was trying (mainly) to D/L 1116A 1 Gulf Coats - Mississippi to
Galveston.

Clicking on this link give me a 404 with an address of:
http://www.navquest.com/noaa/1116A_1.pdf

Trying that address in a new window gives the same 404.


So I tried the one that you just now supplied (above) - selected
menu option for chard D/L and clicked on the chart link.
Same problem. 404


I've checked and verified that you are allowed to set cookies and make
pop ups.

I'm Running Netscape 7.2 on an XP pro machine with access via Verison
FIOS.

Direct connect - no proxies. No Filters...


Does any of that help?

Richard

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:55:23 -0700, Nav_Quest
wrote:

On Oct 7, 5:19 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard

What link are you going to?

http://www.navquest.com

Regards,

Gaspare

I clicked the URL given above, scaled and dragged the displayed
Florida chart to the Gulf coast, and printed a chart.

Brian W

Nav_Quest wrote:
On Oct 7, 5:19 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:

and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard


What link are you going to?

http://www.navquest.com

Regards,

Gaspare


I forwarded this link to a friend (also on FIOS) who
has the same (404) results...

"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
...
and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard


It's possible it's on your side... The downloads are the most useful part of
the website.

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Capt. JG wrote:

"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
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and I'm still getting 404s...
What's up with that?

Richard



It's possible it's on your side... The downloads are the most useful part of
the website.


No argument there.
Those charts on a lap top would be worth taking the lap top to sea.

But I can't figure out the why of it not finding the files...

Richard

Any real good reason not to get the BSB charts free from the feds
where you can also get the latest updates?

Just asking

Michael Porter



cavelamb himself wrote:

Capt. JG wrote:

It's possible it's on your side... The downloads are the most useful part of
the website.


No argument there.
Those charts on a lap top would be worth taking the lap top to sea.

But I can't figure out the why of it not finding the files...

Richard
Michael Porter Marine Design
mporter at mp-marine dot com
www.mp-marine.com

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"Michael Porter" wrote in message
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Any real good reason not to get the BSB charts free from the feds
where you can also get the latest updates?

Just asking

Michael Porter



cavelamb himself wrote:

Capt. JG wrote:

It's possible it's on your side... The downloads are the most useful
part of
the website.


No argument there.
Those charts on a lap top would be worth taking the lap top to sea.

But I can't figure out the why of it not finding the files...

Richard
Michael Porter Marine Design
mporter at mp-marine dot com
www.mp-marine.com

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Just thought the PDFs were nice... other than that, no reason I can think
of...


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