Home PC chartplotting...

[Duffman]

For the home laptop. Looking for something simple. Plot courses, see distances between points and store waypoints.

Did the google search and head is swimming after reading so much info!

Thanks

[Gerry Zagorski]

Do you have a tablet?? If so Navionics app is free and it's awesome. Not sure how it is on a pc but you might want to give it a shot. The tablet/phone app will do everything on your list and you can use it out on the water as a back up for your on board chart plotter as long as the tablet or phone has a GPS built in.

Some of the newer navionics based map boat chart plotters now come with wifi. You can then take what you've done on the phone or tablet and synch it with your boat plotter via wifi.

[Gerry Zagorski]

PS - The Navionics web app will do what you are looking to do as well

http://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en

[Hunter 2]

Yup, Navionics is the way to go Dan..

[MrAC1980]

Nice find! Gerry do you know how to enter a waypoint on that web app so you can get a bearing/distance?

[Duffman]

Have navionics app on the phone and it works great. Trying to figure out the PC version. How to put in GPS numbers and have it map the spot or throw a pin down and get the locations #'s????

Had a program years ago. Forgot the name? Nautical net maybe ? Was able to view the chart of sandy hook area with all my spots overlaid on the screen

[Gerry Zagorski]

Hmm - just tried it to and looks like the only thing you can do on the web app version is measure distances....Thought maybe you had to purchase an upgraded PC app but I could not find anything on the Navionics site so not sure what's up.

Maybe Santa will be getting you and iPad for Christmas Duff. It works really slick. If you are thinking of getting one, if you buy the wifi only version it does not have a GPS module in it so you can't use it like you would your chart plotter but can plot you spots, create routes etc.

I think the only full size versions of the iPad air that have GPS built in are the ones the Cell Phone companies are selling. I think however the iPad mini can be purchased with GPS and you don't have to buy it though a Cell Phone company.

[Tiderunner]

Try the program from Andren..andren.com.
Allows for conversion of Loran to GPS w/ extreme accuracy as well.
Local charts and you can create your own library of waypoints w/ ranges/bearings.
Mike

[Gerry Zagorski]

Nice find! Gerry do you know how to enter a waypoint on that web app so you can get a bearing/distance?

Ant - When you open the webpage and the map loads, you will notice a tool on the bottom right (see attachment). Click on it and it will snap a line with a pin on each end. Click on the pins and drag them to your desired start and end points and it will give you distance and compass heading.

The iphone and ipad apps are much slicker since you can click on a desired point on the map, drop a marker, save and name it. You can also create and save routes and use the app like you would your chart plotter on your boat.

An added bonus is, if you have a wifi enable chart plotter on the boat that is Navionics based, you can then take all your routes, markers etc from your Ipone/pad and move them over to your boat chart plotter through wifi.

They also did something that is really slick. If your Navioncs based chart plotter also reads depths from your boat transducer, the unit can log the depths along with the GPS coordinates. You download the log from your chart plotter to the Ipad/Phone and push it up to the Navioncs cloud and they update their charts. Pretty smart way to get and keep your charts up to date.