Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

http://earthnc.com/

Nautical Charts of the whole continent plus a lot more....uses Google Earth
coupled to your GPS data.....$50!

Take a look at the video....

The days of the $2000 proprietary chart plotter ripoff is ending...

....right on your laptop or handheld tablet.

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:40:19 +0000, Larry wrote:

http://earthnc.com/

Nautical Charts of the whole continent plus a lot more....uses Google Earth
coupled to your GPS data.....$50!

Take a look at the video....

The days of the $2000 proprietary chart plotter ripoff is ending...

...right on your laptop or handheld tablet.

Can it be used without an internet connection?

If not, then it's not quite ready for chart plotter replacement duty,
not by a long shot.

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

Wayne.B wrote in
:

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:40:19 +0000, Larry wrote:

http://earthnc.com/

Nautical Charts of the whole continent plus a lot more....uses Google
Earth coupled to your GPS data.....$50!

Take a look at the video....

The days of the $2000 proprietary chart plotter ripoff is ending...

...right on your laptop or handheld tablet.

Can it be used without an internet connection?

If not, then it's not quite ready for chart plotter replacement duty,
not by a long shot.



Yes. All the charts come on a $50 CD for North America. It stores all the
map tiles from Google on your hard drive prior to leaving home...just like
my Nokia N800 internet tablet's Maemo Mapper does. Then it goes to the
memory for the map tiles of satellite photos, for instance.

The only thing it needs internet for is the live, realtime weather/points
of interest/stuff that can't be stored. Everything else is your GPS input.

This is really cool looking stuff.

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Jul 13, 2:02*pm, Larry wrote:
Wayne.B wrote :





On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:40:19 +0000, Larry wrote:

http://earthnc.com/

Nautical Charts of the whole continent plus a lot more....uses Google
Earth coupled to your GPS data.....$50!

Take a look at the video....

The days of the $2000 proprietary chart plotter ripoff is ending...

...right on your laptop or handheld tablet.

Can it be used without an internet connection? *

If not, then it's not quite ready for chart plotter replacement duty,
not by a long shot.

Yes. *All the charts come on a $50 CD for North America. *It stores all the
map tiles from Google on your hard drive prior to leaving home...just like
my Nokia N800 internet tablet's Maemo Mapper does. *Then it goes to the
memory for the map tiles of satellite photos, for instance.

The only thing it needs internet for is the live, realtime weather/points
of interest/stuff that can't be stored. *Everything else is your GPS input.

This is really cool looking stuff.- Hide quoted text -

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What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:dbb940e8-d2bd-40cb-
:

What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"



I don't know. I just found the website and wanted to know if anyone here
had used this company's products.

That probably adds GPS data to the PC on PCs that won't talk to NMEA

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Jul 13, 4:43*pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:dbb940e8-d2bd-40cb-
:

What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"

I don't know. *I just found the website and wanted to know if anyone here
had used this company's products.

That probably adds GPS data to the PC on PCs that won't talk to NMEA

It has added features over free GooPs.

I bought their stuff and I'm going to try out their charting system on
my trip from New Buffalo Mich. To Marco Island FL.

I upgraded to GooPs pro as well.

Capt. Bill

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:f67fdcf3-2084-4fb8-
:

On Jul 13, 4:43*pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:dbb940e8-d2bd-40cb-
:

What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"

I don't know. *I just found the website and wanted to know if anyone he
re
had used this company's products.

That probably adds GPS data to the PC on PCs that won't talk to NMEA

It has added features over free GooPs.

I bought their stuff and I'm going to try out their charting system on
my trip from New Buffalo Mich. To Marco Island FL.

I upgraded to GooPs pro as well.

Capt. Bill


Please give us a good report on your realtime experiences with it...thanks.

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Jul 14, 11:55*pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:f67fdcf3-2084-4fb8-
:





On Jul 13, 4:43*pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:dbb940e8-d2bd-40cb-
:

What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"

I don't know. *I just found the website and wanted to know if anyone he
re
had used this company's products.

That probably adds GPS data to the PC on PCs that won't talk to NMEA

It has added features over free GooPs.

I bought their stuff and I'm going to try out their charting system on
my trip from New Buffalo Mich. To Marco Island FL.

I upgraded to GooPs pro as well.

Capt. Bill

Please give us a good report on your realtime experiences with it...thanks.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I will. In fact if I can get it all to work you may be able to "ride
along" via video link.


Capt. Bill

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Jul 15, 9:53*am, "Capt.Bill" wrote:
On Jul 14, 11:55*pm, Larry wrote:





"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:f67fdcf3-2084-4fb8-
:

On Jul 13, 4:43*pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:dbb940e8-d2bd-40cb-
:

What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"

I don't know. *I just found the website and wanted to know if anyone he
re
had used this company's products.

That probably adds GPS data to the PC on PCs that won't talk to NMEA

It has added features over free GooPs.

I bought their stuff and I'm going to try out their charting system on
my trip from New Buffalo Mich. To Marco Island FL.

I upgraded to GooPs pro as well.

Capt. Bill

Please give us a good report on your realtime experiences with it...thanks.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I will. In fact if I can get it all to work you may be able to "ride
along" via video link.

Capt. Bill- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Got the EarthNC and GooPs up and running. Pretty good stuff. Will not
take the place of a real plotter (and the company agrees) but close.
Lots of detail though.

Should have video and tracking up and running for the trip.


Capt. Bill

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Jul 19, 1:53*pm, "Capt.Bill" wrote:
On Jul 15, 9:53*am, "Capt.Bill" wrote:





On Jul 14, 11:55*pm, Larry wrote:

"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:f67fdcf3-2084-4fb8-
:

On Jul 13, 4:43*pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:dbb940e8-d2bd-40cb-
:

What does this do?

"GPS Option for Chart Plotter Functionality
GooPs Pro GPS Software Download (PC Only) $19.95"

I don't know. *I just found the website and wanted to know if anyone he
re
had used this company's products.

That probably adds GPS data to the PC on PCs that won't talk to NMEA

It has added features over free GooPs.

I bought their stuff and I'm going to try out their charting system on
my trip from New Buffalo Mich. To Marco Island FL.

I upgraded to GooPs pro as well.

Capt. Bill

Please give us a good report on your realtime experiences with it...thanks.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I will. In fact if I can get it all to work you may be able to "ride
along" via video link.

Capt. Bill- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Got the EarthNC and GooPs up and running. Pretty good stuff. Will not
take the place of a real plotter (and the company agrees) but close.
Lots of detail though.

Should have video and tracking up and running for the trip.

Capt. Bill- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Video and EarthNC tracking is up: earthnc.com/captbill

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On 12 Jul, 22:40, Larry wrote:
http://earthnc.com/

Nautical Charts of the whole continent plus a lot more....uses Google Earth
coupled to your GPS data.....$50!

Take a look at the video....

The days of the $2000 proprietary chart plotter ripoff is ending...

...right on your laptop or handheld tablet.

Check this out, NOAA charts overlaid on Goggle Earth. Note:
Transparency adjustments in upper right.

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

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Jul 25, 1:13*pm, "
wrote:
On 12 Jul, 22:40, Larry wrote:

http://earthnc.com/

Nautical Charts of the whole continent plus a lot more....uses Google Earth
coupled to your GPS data.....$50!

Take a look at the video....

The days of the $2000 proprietary chart plotter ripoff is ending...

...right on your laptop or handheld tablet.

Check this out, NOAA charts overlaid on Goggle Earth. *Note:
Transparency adjustments in upper right.

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

You got something better than this link. I always get an error message
and can't use the transparency functions.

Also if you go to their webs site it looks like you have to buy their
software and build up a mapping/charting system. They do not seem to
do the mapping.

"Your problem :
Your goal is to publish maps or orthophotos on the Internet.

But, classical webmapping solutions appear inaccessible because of
their price and/or their technical implementation.

The solution :
GeoGarage, spatial image server."



Capt. Bill

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:8fa9a3e5-c71a-4866-
:

You got something better than this link. I always get an error message
and can't use the transparency functions.

You're too late. The whole webpage structure has changed from the DEMO of
their system that WAS posted to what is up there now trying to sell you
their service. Sorry.....


Also if you go to their webs site it looks like you have to buy their
software and build up a mapping/charting system. They do not seem to
do the mapping.


They're in business to sell charts....just like everyone else.

Anyone using Earth NC charting?
 

On Aug 1, 9:32*am, Larry wrote:
"Capt.Bill" wrote in news:8fa9a3e5-c71a-4866-
:

You got something better than this link. I always get an error message
and can't use the transparency functions.

You're too late. *The whole webpage structure has changed from the DEMO of
their system that WAS posted to what is up there now trying to sell you
their service. *Sorry.....


I looked at it when this was first posted. I still see the same NOAA
chart demo.




Also if you go to their webs site it looks like you have to buy their
software and build up a mapping/charting system. They do not seem to
do the mapping.

They're in business to sell charts....just like everyone else.

I don't even see where they sell charts? Only software for charting/
mapping.


Capt. Bill