September 11, 2006

Free nautical charts

Free_noaa_bsb_charts NOAA has a site where you can download free nautical charts for the entire U.S. The charts are in BSB/KAP format, and can be used in OziExplorer. I found this via a post on the OziExplorer message  forum.

Sep 11, 2006 7:49:29 PM | Maps, Marine

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David

Is there a Garmin Plotter GPS that can take uploads of custom Oziexplorer maps?

thanks,
david

Posted by: David | March 28, 2008 at 01:49 PM

Rich Owings

No, you would have to do that on a laptop, a PDA or perhaps a Windows CE GPS device that you've hacked. I'm not certain, but you can probably do this with a Mio. You would have to use OziCE.

Posted by: Rich Owings | March 28, 2008 at 02:00 PM

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