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oeSENC and OpenPlotter update or new release
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(2017-12-20, 10:46 AM)monos Wrote:
Quote:Anyway, I don't really care about this. I use free charts only. It's too bad there are people who withhold critical navigation information on the basis of profit.

I absolutely agree with you on the issue of nautical charts.

As a curious detail, I would like to mention that many of the data in our charts still come from the 18th and 19th centuries, especially with respect to soundings. You can access charts and seafarers' books from then and compare them with the current ones.

Of course, today there is a lot of new information but there are areas of the planet where most data still come from those times.

On the other hand, I can understand that the user has to keep part of the cost if there are only paper copies of the charts. These cost money and so does distribution.

But in today's age when distributing data over the Internet has such a low cost, it is more difficult to understand.

To top it off, these Spanish charts are distributed free of charge by the Spanish Ministry of Defence through a website with a visualizer. However, there is no way to save or download the tiles (easily) for use with OCpn. You must have obligatory access to the Internet which makes it unusable in high seas sailing.

At least the o-charts team has made an effort for us and has managed to ensure that reactivating a license is not excessively expensive.

The only bad thing is... what if my license fails and I don't have the means to activate it... for whatever reason, there is no Internet access or electronic payment methods don't work?

I think we will still need the old CM93 charts in case there is some kind of problem with the purchased charts.
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I'am updating all the time. Now OpenPlotter is running on kernel 4.9.76-V7+. Also made the conversion from Jessy to Linux Stretch.

And I always install the with the latest Linux updates.

Never had a problem with the oeSenc charts.

Bram
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RE: oeSENC and OpenPlotter update or new release - by verkerkbr - 2018-01-12, 11:21 PM

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