Text can be displayed horizontally and in the correct size no matter what the chart orientation or zoom level. GE Status Bar. Lower "eye alt" height improves resolution. OpenCPN :. It's under constant development, and new versions come out every year or so. Make sure you select the correct version for your operating system. You can also download several plugins for OpenCPN. None of them are necessary, but take a look and download whatever you think you might want.
You will not need the Google Earth plugin, but you can download and install it if you want. Plugins are installed by running the downloaded file, and then Enabling each plugin on the Plugins page of the Options toolbox looks like a wrench on the OpenCPN toolbar. GE2KAP :. This will also install the necessary ooRexx interpreter if it's not already installed. An SSD is usually much faster at large file manipulations than a spinning disk.
This lets us put all of our routes and KAPs nearby as well. A Changelog. Google Earth :. Do not install the latest version of Google Earth! Google has disabled the GE programming interface in recent versions.
If you already have GE v7. If you haven't installed GE before, you can download and install GE v7. Under View , turn on the Sidebar and then turn off most items we only leave Borders and Labels turned on. GE2KAP needs the status bar to see when the image has finished downloading from the Google servers, and will turn it on if it's off, but it will cut the status bar off when it makes the KAPs. Also under View , set Show Navigation to Never. On the Navigation tab make sure Do not automatically tilt while zooming is selected.
Google changes GE now and then, so you should probably check the rest of the Options to make sure they're set reasonably. Cursor shows route-file location. Click for full size. Most sailors are interested in coastlines, so lines are probably the most frequently defined type of chart group.
Or, if you know the route you're going to sail, you can use that. This gets a bit complicated. The altitude for the KAPs can optionally be controlled by the spacing of the waypoints on your route. Make the points further apart where you don't want as much detail, and large, lower resolution KAPs are made at a higher elevation see Imagery Height. This feature is useful if you only want detail in certain places, such as where you know you'll be stopping, or when a passage gets narrow, or where there are obstacles.
Also, as mentioned in the GE inaccuracies section, sometimes GE only provides low resolution imagery, and it's silly to make tiny, high resolution KAPs for those areas. So this feature lets you create high resolution KAPs where you want detail, but lets you create larger low resolution KAPs where detail isn't as important.
If you want more coverage than GE2KAP normally provides along the edge of a coastline, then you can create a long, skinny loop along the coastline. If you're using GE to look at, say, a small island or even a group of islands, and you want to make KAP file s of what you're looking at, GE2KAP can do that immediately, without your having to define a route file first. Or, by selecting the Tile checkbox first, you can subdivide the image into a grid of 4, 16, 64, or KAPs, at proportionally lower elevations and higher resolutions.
KAP you have two ways to do it. The first and the easiest one is to right-click on the selected KAP file. From the drop-down menu select "Choose default program" , then click "Browse" and find the desired program. The whole operation must be confirmed by clicking OK. The second and more difficult to do is associate the KAP file extension to the corresponding software in the Windows Registry.
Many files contain only simple text data. It is possible that while opening unknown files e. The Western North Atlantic - the Caribbean. The information part in The South Pacific is not a part of the Pilot Chart itself, as in the other oceans, due to lack of space.
World Wide Magnetic Variation chart from year Best viewed as a single chart. You can also spend a few more moments to apply additional editing to the images prepared for conversion. Then pick the PDF as output format.
Then simply press the Start button and your conversion will begin in no time! You are welcome to contact our technical support when you have any questions about reaConverter. Feel free to buy us a beer via the Donate button if the images get you out of trouble one day! Cheers, Mike. An absolutely golden library, especially for those of us planning to go all the way around. Saved me untold hours days? Thank you! Lauri sv Ashika.
Hi Lauri, Thanks for the kind words. We're half way around ourselves. Fair winds! Perfect as an extra aid to navigation in poorly charted areas, as described in my post here. All the imagery I have created and which I have collected from others is intended to be shared. I have shared on an individual basis so far. The data is now available online. The library is on Dropbox here.
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