Thanks to all for the advice about route planning. It turns out that I had a copy of Mapsource that had been used for a Caribbean trip several years ago. Your comments started me on a search for it.
If I understand the listers correctly, I should be able to use it for route planning on my computer and then transfer the routes to my Garmin 540 on board via a standard SD card. Since I had only used it once, I was able to get a code from Garmin to use it again (the last time) for no charge. They want more money for opening it again! (Sounds a little old-fashioned by today's standards IMHO). Ironically, their web-site simply refused to let me "...navigate..." to this code--which I pointed out was a little strange for probably the world's largest and likely best source of ...NAVIGATION... gear! :>) Of course I could have purchased Homeport and used my 540 for the charts and then transferred the planned routes back to the 540 as well--at least I think that is the case. At least I saved a trip to the boat this way. Charlie Nelson Water Phantom [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Pete Shelquist <[email protected]> To: cnc-list <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 10:35 am Subject: Re: Stus-List iPad/iPhone app for route planning FWIW, I use Garmin BlueChart Mobile on an Ipad and have no complaints. Fast and easy to use tools. Also, it’s easy to connect a remote GPS via Bluetooth and use that for live tracking in the car, boat, etc. Good luck. From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marek Dziedzic Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List iPad/iPhone app for route planning Charlie, As far as Garmin is concerned, I am traditionalist and I like the MapSource the best. If you insist on using an iProduct, you are somewhat out of luck (you can use BaseCamp, I believe, but I cannot guarantee results). But it works very well on any Windows PC and, as some other listers can attest, an old BlueChart v.2 can be of great help in planning routes. Marek (in Ottawa) ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:43:12 -0400 From: "Rick Brass" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List iPad/iPhone app for route planning Message-ID: <009001cf3e2b$5060c9f0$f1225dd0$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Charlie; Since you have a Garmin plotter, have you thought about using Garmin Homeport software. I know you can load it on a PC, at a cost of $29.00. You can download the Garmin chart set that is on your 540 at no cost, IIRC. Then you can not only do the route planning on your laptop, but you can copy the route to the SD card in your plotter and have the route available on the plotter to be followed. I think there is a version available for iOS, but you can't put the route onto an SD card because there is no slot in the iPAD - at least not on the iPAD that I have. Rick Brass _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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