BlackJack58
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I know if you already have GPS nav system on your boat, this is of little interest, but I just came across this site, which might be useful for the rest of us who don't:
http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/
What they've done is overlay NOAA navigation charts over the interactive, zoomable Google map. You can search it by just entering a location (like "Put in Bay, OH") and like a regular Google map, you're right there.
It seems to work fine on a laptop--course you'd need G3 wireless to use it; otherwise you could, I suppose, save and pre-load screen shots as images to save as chart files. I was really hoping to see how this works on the iPhone--which would be really handy--but it seems slow, and the zoom is hard to use on the touch-screen. Maybe another phone [blackberry] might work better.
Just thought it might be handy in a pinch...
http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/
What they've done is overlay NOAA navigation charts over the interactive, zoomable Google map. You can search it by just entering a location (like "Put in Bay, OH") and like a regular Google map, you're right there.
It seems to work fine on a laptop--course you'd need G3 wireless to use it; otherwise you could, I suppose, save and pre-load screen shots as images to save as chart files. I was really hoping to see how this works on the iPhone--which would be really handy--but it seems slow, and the zoom is hard to use on the touch-screen. Maybe another phone [blackberry] might work better.
Just thought it might be handy in a pinch...
