Kenneth Johnson wrote: >Finally made the move to the Garmin GPSMAP 76. Am debating what >MapSource CD would offer the most shoreline detail: I am more concerned >with getting something that shows good shoreline detail (offshore islands >and such) than good road detail. Thanks for your help.....Ken > I use the Maptech Digital Chart Kit, it has all of the NOAA marine chart features (they scanned in the NOAA charts) in the water, but where the land begins they switch to the USGS Topo maps. You get the best of both. The chart kit also includes tide and current data and charting. I like it. Mike > -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
--- Michael Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net> wrote: > I use the Maptech Digital Chart Kit, it has all of > the NOAA marine chart > features (they scanned in the NOAA charts) in the > water, but where the > land begins they switch to the USGS Topo maps. You don't mean on the same chart do you? There is info on the land areas of the nautical charts that is important to navigation so I wonder how they could do this. > You > get the best of > both. The chart kit also includes tide and current > data and charting. > I like it. I have resisted buying charts from them because they are pretty expensive and I hate to pay again for something that we as taxpayers paid for in the first place. Perhaps I am just a cheapskate. My understanding is that anyone can scan the NOAA charts and basically do anything they want with them, legally. It galls me to pay Maptech $200 for scans of charts that are basically freely distributable, especially since the charts were created at the taxpayers expense to begin with. So as a result I have downloaded the topos that I use from topozone (free). I have also pieced together charts of the upper and middle bay from the Maptech online charts (free). All of this was time consuming enough that I probably would have just bought them, were it not for the feeling that it would be a ripoff. I will probably do the rest of the bay sometime when I have the time and patience to tackle the project. It is my personal opinion that NOAA should distribute them in a raster format (tiff, jpeg?) for free. Unfortunately my opinion is irrelevent on this matter. BTW: I find that Oziexplorer is a great tool for creating waypoints and routes from electronic charts and maps and getting them into the GPS. OziCE also works great on my iPaq. I connect it to the GPS and it works like a chart plotter. I have not used OziCE or the iPaq in my kayak though (I do use them in the car and on the sailboat quite a bit). I may do so in camp on multiday kayak trips in the future. Pete Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I don't have any objection to paying a reasonable fee--$16 seems a bit much for charts when topos are only $4. It's like paying a reasonable $2-5 launch fee at a public facility. There's no reason every taxpayer should pay to subsidize my full use of the facility. However, when my tax dollars ARE going into construction, upkeep, and maintenance of a facility, I would rail at having to pay the full value of my use, each time I use it. I hate paying $12 for a National Park campsite. Especially after I've already paid the entrance fee, and my tax dollars go into NPS coffers. NPS budgets have increased exponentially in the past decade, but services haven't increased at the same rate--bureaucracy has. In Glacier NP near where I live, there used to be 2.5 winter staffers...now there are close to 20--and the park is mostly closed then. I don't get it. >It is my personal opinion that NOAA should distribute >them in a raster format (tiff, jpeg?) for free. I agree--the free downloads at Mapserver are too low-rez. I wouldn't even object to a $5/map fee for a high-quality download. Paying someone $200 is too much for my hard-earned dollar, though. >Unfortunately my opinion is irrelevent on this matter. Singularly, maybe yes...but there are probably tens of thousands of people who feel the same way we do. It would torque me worse if I were a British citizen--even their tidal harmonics are Crown property. sheesh! Shawn Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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