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IS THERE ANYTHING TESTED FOR NAUTICAL USE ??I HAVE GARMIN MAP SOURSE BUT ONLY SHOW MY POSITION ON MAP.I WANT SOMETHING WITH NAVIGATION TO WAYPOINTS AND ALL THIS GOODIES.I LIVE IN GREECE (SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH).

Hi tito1231,

to Laptop GPS World.

Check the products Fugawi offers: http://www.fugawi.com

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Marvin Hlavac

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Check Garmin's web site. They have many navigation products specifically for on-water navigation as well as map products with all the necessary data that normal road maps do not include.

Look under PRODUCTS >> ON THE WATER.

...ken...

I use MaXSea http://comen.maxsea.fr/MaxSea/

TNX GUYS I LOOK FOR ALL THIS I HOPE GREECE INCLUDE IN THE MAPS OF THIS PRODUCTS

Cool, tito1232. Let us know what you end up buying, and how you like it, etc. Perhaps, if there are several people interested, we may even open a forum section dedicated to PC GPS navigation on water.

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Marvin Hlavac

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tito you can get nautical maps for EVERY navigatable water way in the world (including Greece) - be it ocean or inland. One word of caution though, the nautical world is used to paying in the thousands $ for world coverage whereas we are used to hundreds $ for land navigation. Probably has to do with the numbers nusing both types of navigation. The sea navigation software is actually (from what I van see of the land stuff), more sophisticated than the land software, although since there are no roads, planninig a route is usually by way of clicking on the maps and setting waypoints. Saving tracks in critical, especially when anchoring since you can, in a storm, simply up anchor and motor back out the saved track in pitch darkness and driving rain without hitting anything (assuming you didnt hit anything on the way in )
Enjoy and like Marvin, I look forward to your comments

Hi Tito

I am looking for the same thing. I am familiar with maptech.com - they have individual maps for all of the Med. that I am familiar with and are very good - you can see them here:

There is also a newer version offered containing the whole of the Med. in one single purchase:
http://www.memory-map.co.uk/acatalog...ope_atsea.html

I have spoken to the Maptech agent in the UK and apparently the company is in the middle of being sold and there is no software available at present. I was told to come back at the end of August.
The nice thing about the Maptech agent in the UK, besides the fact that I am not familiar with any other, is that they offer the maps, driver and also a gps mouse option all in one package. This is good for those of us (me) with limited knowledge of all the issues involved.

There is of course also Garmin but I feel that if you do go in that direction then just use their GPS hardware instead of your laptop

Hope this helped....

Tito,

Sorry I am only just now getting back to you, but I have been very busy planing an overland excursion (very rare thing, I usually sail where I go).

There are two places that you have to look:
Seaclear is a very capable FREE program that does everything you are looking for and more. Manuals are available in other languages than English. This program can only accept NMEA data. But it can also display more than just GPS data from the NMEA buss.
http://www.sping.com/seaclear/

Another very good program is GPS Utility. It is not free, but is is very reasonable. This program can accommodate several different GPS outputs (and NMEA).
http://www.gpsu.co.uk/

Both will use scanned charts that you can calibrate.
Both will import many types of charts files, but be sure you find out what is available in your area before you count on using either one.

Fair Wind and Smooth Sea

Matt Colie

THANKS MATT I LOOK FOR BOTH SOLUSIONS
GEIA SAS from GREECE