Nautical chart comparison: mobile apps, oeSENC and paper charts

Posted on By Jaykay 1 Comment on Nautical chart comparison: mobile apps, oeSENC and paper charts
Mobile apps, Boating software, Nautical charts, OpenCPN

In this post, I compare the nautical (navigational) charts from the following iOS mobile apps: Navionics Boating app, Garmin ActiveCaptain (using BlueChart g2 charts), 0100100 Merellä and Nautics Sailmate. In addition to those, I have also included oeSENC (vector chart) from o-charts.org and photos of the official TRAFICOM paper charts. The app screenshots are full … Read More “Nautical chart comparison: mobile apps, oeSENC and paper charts” »

Sunlight readable monitors for boating and marine applications

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Displays, Boating electronics and hardware

The most challenging part of building your own DIY chart plotter or some other marine device with a display, is finding a suitable, and reasonably priced, high brightness, sunlight readable monitor. There is a lot of discussion about it, for example on OpenCPN wiki and on cruisersforum.com. I spend probably north of 100 hours researching … Read More “Sunlight readable monitors for boating and marine applications” »