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Old 13-10-2018, 08:50   #1
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OpenCPN: Explorer Charts Bahamas now available

The Explorer Charts for the Bahamas are now available for OpenCPN via Fugawi.com

The Explorer raster charts for the Bahamas are widely recognized as the most reliable chart material for cruising the Bahamas. Tested, reported and confirmed by OpenCPN users and developers sailing these waters.
That's why we were very keen to make these chart set working for OpenCPN.

We have observed glitches in the presentation of the Explorer Charts as result of some wrong meta data and the way of trimming the raster charts from the paper originals.
Don't get me wrong: This does not influence in navigation or geo-referencing.
All this is spot on. Projections, scales and dimension are correct.


But quilting charts may give unpleasant results in some moments. Not the behavior we would expect from raster chart sets presented by OpenCPN.

Therefore we recommend to use these charts in single chart mode.

Anyhow, we will not stop here and are working with Fugawi to get things completely right also for the Explorer Charts.

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Re: OpenCPN: Explorer Charts Bahamas now available

Do you have any updates on the Explorer Chart availability on OpenCPN?
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Old 02-03-2019, 09:18   #3
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Re: OpenCPN: Explorer Charts Bahamas now available

As you might know, Fugawi has pulled out of chart distribution, shutting down their operations since December, 1st 2018.

We are working on alternatives to get the Explorer charts finally in a well designed way back for OpenCPN. When this matures we will report back.
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Bahamas Explorer charts on OpenCPN would of course be excellent! I'm sure there would be many happy new explorer chart customers. Thank you very much for the update and efforts.
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Re: OpenCPN: Explorer Charts Bahamas now available

How are things going getting Explorer available via o-charts? The current Bahamas charts there appear to be produced by Navionics and we all know how wonderfully accurate they are for the Bahamas... Is there anything I can do to help push this along? Happy to spend some time to get this rolling.
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Old 27-04-2019, 10:23   #6
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Re: OpenCPN: Explorer Charts Bahamas now available

Just give us some few weeks more, the project is advancing reasonably well.

It requires a new format for OpenCPN, licensed raster charts as an equivalent to the oeSENC vector charts.
Plus the logistics to make this new format available for distribution.

The Explorer Chart sets are already nicely prepared and packaged for OpenCPN.
The issues we observed with the Fugawi sets are resolved and quilting will work well with the sets.
Expect three chart sets corresponding with the Explorer Guide Books for the Bahamas: Near Bahamas, Far Bahamas and Exumas.

Hubert
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Re: OpenCPN: Explorer Charts Bahamas now available

Awesome, if you need anyone to help test let me know.

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Just give us some few weeks more, the project is advancing reasonably well.

It requires a new format for OpenCPN, licensed raster charts as an equivalent to the oeSENC vector charts.
Plus the logistics to make this new format available for distribution.

The Explorer Chart sets are already nicely prepared and packaged for OpenCPN.
The issues we observed with the Fugawi sets are resolved and quilting will work well with the sets.
Expect three chart sets corresponding with the Explorer Guide Books for the Bahamas: Near Bahamas, Far Bahamas and Exumas.

Hubert
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