On Sat, 29 May 2004 20:07:41 GMT, Daniel
wrote:

Well, thank you, you gave me some new ideas.
In particular the possibility to use a laptop. I have an old HP with
W95 which would actually be available for sailing with me!
Does anyone ave suggestions on how to read NEMEA through the serial port
and which kind of cartography would be better?

Daniel


I use Ozi Explorer - it will use the common BSB-format nautical
charts, or you can scan your paper charts and calibrate them in Ozi
(it handles most graphic formats).

There is a free mapping program called "SeaClear" - there are links to
both programs, and info on the NMEA-0183 data format, on my GPS/NMEA
web site listed below.


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