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Originally Posted by hellosailor ""* Buying a full set of paper charts AND a full set of electronic charts. Very Expensive!"
Sure, but the NOAA electronic charts that used to cost a fortune from Maptech, are online FREE now. From both NOAA and Maptech. So they're no longer expensive, they're free. |
Did I mention that our cruise is mostly outside of the US? Guess not! I have already downloaded the full set of US charts. (Thank heavens for high speed connections!)
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Originally Posted by hellosailor "* Buying a full set of paper charts and scanning them in to the computer. Time consuming and cheap(er)."
If you're outside the US and need more than the NOAA charts, sure. Pain in the but if you cross over into Canada up by Vancouver and need all their charts too.<G> |
Actually, we were planning on going south, but your comment applies to Mexico as well...
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Originally Posted by hellosailor ""* "I have had good success "scanning" charts with my high-end digital camera. Am I missing something an alternative?"
Bad idea. You are almost guaranteed to get keystone distortions, which a scanner wouldn't have. |
Ah, but you can easily correct such distortions with Photoshop :-) I import them after all the lat/long lines are straight and parallel. Done with care, it really does work. Being full time liveaboards, we don't really want to devote the space to a large format printer OR scanner!