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While we're on this subject, maybe someone can explain why a GPS costs a few hundred dollars, a small flat screen costs about the same, add them together with some software, water proof them and call them a 'Marine GPS Chartploter, and the cost $4000....?

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but as an experiment have just loaded

 

the free openseamap to an iphone 5, android phone, garmin handheld + laptop

 

chart shows beacons + buoys but no depths

 

Free App for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch

Download app

Worldwide chart

Cached chart tiles

Show GPS-position

Search function

 

on the laptop you can also call up marine traffic in the view drop-down and see AIS vessels

 

http://map.openseamap.org/?zoom=4&lat=4 ... F0FFFFFFFF

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