![]() If you have any questions about the VF side of things just let me know. (That last just involved creative use of a handful of EBLs. The AIS functionality is also incredibly useful the course vectors and rate of turn indicators make it very easy to visualize crossing situations. Now these depths are immediately available to anyone. 0 Comments Also useful is the ability to attach a VRM or EBL to AIS targets. Click the record button, stop it and save. The recording.upload might sound difficult but it is not. ![]() These depths are then available online and as an overlay on the KAP. When you upload the NMEA stream, VF grabs the current state of the tide and then loads your depths into the database (with your transducer offset in your VF profile). IF you have depths coming in to OpenCPN then these are recorded. On VF I allow uploads of NMEA data recorded by the OpenCPN VDR plugin (really an easy plugin to use). Creating KAPs is also available directly on with no software to install and will work on any computer platform. Also with smartphones and some GPS-devices. Together with a navigation program or an app also with an onboard-computer, a notebook, on Android tablet, iPad or Windows tablet. It is the only marine navigation app that allows you to load your own charts in a variety of standard formats, including: S-57, S-63, iENC, BSB, and KAP. OpenSeaMap-charts can be used on board even without access to internet - with a chart plotter from Garmin, Lowrance, Simrad, B&G. Here is where using a web server to build the KAP gets interesting. SEAiq is a full-featured marine navigation app. So, the plugin does need an internet connection to GET the image, but once it loads the KAP it works just the same as GE2KAP. I am a full time cruising sailor and I develop VF part time. Also KAP creation being server based this plugin also works on Linux (and cross your fingers, hopefully on Android). The API that Mike used to request the KAP has been around for about 3 years now and is also used by SEAiq (navigation app on the iPAd, Mac and Android) and now OpenCPN. I also purposely built it to be simple and fast to use. Creating KAPs is also available directly on with no software to install and will work on any computer platform. The biggest difference I see is with VF the creation of the KAP happens on a web server. Is this new plugin the same as GE2KAP, well as they say in Thailand "same, same but different". coasts, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, the Hawaiian Island chain as far as Midway, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands. Hi all, Jon from VentureFarther (WF) here. The Chart Downloader feature included with OpenCPN 4.2 and above, will help you download, update and organize most of these free chart sources: NOAA Office of Coast Survey - free U.S.
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