God knows what copyright violations this might entail and I am not too interested. Before I went on my last trip, I took my charts and scanned them with my computer. I then could take the part of the chart, sometimes combining things from more charts with Photoshop-equivalent software and then printed them on the National Geographic paper. That paper allows you to make waterproof charts with the ordinary ink-jet ink that smears so readily on ordinary paper. In addition to being waterproof this stuff is fairly strong. You can print on both sides. And once the images are in the computer you can do lots of interesting things such as showing the coastline enlarged in some areas and the other parts of the chart reduced in size elsewhere. Create overlap charts etc. Typing notes to yourself etc. Basically you are making your own custom chart. This works very well. The magic is the National Geographic "Adventure" paper. It comes in a few sizes, I used 8.5 by 17 which was the largest my printer could handle. I got the paper from REI though I see you can buy it on-line from National Geographic Topo Maps area. I was just at their site buying the Washington State Topo map which has finally come out with a Macintosh version. It worked basically as advertised. With these Topo maps which are already digitized you could do some additional cools stuff such as combining the nautical chart with the Topo maps so the land and sea information was of maximal quality. Not too hard with Photoshop. Combine in some satellite picture data etc... The unfortunate things is that I do most of my paddling in Canada where digital map information seems less accessible (I would like a National Geographic British Columbia map for example.) So I scan in the paper chart(s). *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 06:36:28 PST
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