Thanks for the pointers!

I did a little hunting around because Fugawi's only runs on NT, 2000
and XP, for some reason yet to be discovered, probably related to
reporting in background. That's usually the reason, now. I found a
program for the rest of us called SeeMyDEnc from www.sevencs.com in
Hamburg, Germany. It hasn't asked for money, yet, but may be
shareware. It runs under Win95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and Linux, which is
nice. My system is Win98SE, because I don't like copy protected XP
saying NO BOOT if I change hardware. I'm downloading all 196MB of the
chart data, now, so I'll test SeeMyDEnc and see how it works. There
are a couple of other ENC freeware programs I saw in my search, too,
that didn't require networking and sharing to boot.



On 07 Mar 2004 07:36:24 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

Surely you jest.......

Just because your taxes paid for the damned charts, cartography that
drew them and all the research that went into them....that doesn't
mean you actually can USE or download them without paying some 3rd
party who's bribed your government for exclusive rights to them......

Dammit all....Someone should hang!



Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!





Good news, Larry

NOAA has released electronic charts, free.

Here's the secret handshake:

http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

These are ENC format charts, and they require a "viewer". A viewer can be
downloaded, free, at www.fugawi.com/viewenc/viewenc.html


Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!