For all sailors/boaters who are interested in the new MapSend BlueNav Chart Kit with uploadable marine charts for Europe I will tell shortly why i would NOT buy this Software as it is released now. The MapSend BlueNav Kit Europe consists of one CD (containing all 191 Navionics Gold small Charts covering the European and mediteranean coast)and one SD Card (32 MB); the charts can be loaded only to this Card after getting an unlock Code from the Vendor or Magellan. You can switch charts, but only one chart can be loaded. Price is about 260 Euros. After checking this Software there are some (i think very substantial) limitations: 1) There are Naval Charts for regions not covered by the default european basemap (land or marine); this regions are very important for sailors/boaters because they include big parts of the Mediteranean Sea(Aegaeis, Adriatic Sea.) If you load a chart e.g.from the turkish coast, you get very faulty and undetailed coast lines until the zoom level of 700 m, and this is a serious limitation for practical use of this software for yachting! If you zoom out from 0.25nm/700m level you are suddenly 5 nm at the sea or on land at the next zoom level of 1.4km!,this makes it almost useless for approaching / leaving a coast or harbour. It seems to be the situation of using detailed maps without a corresponding basemap.

The Program for Sea Charts you are looking for is called, Bluenav xl3. Here is the information about these charts: Note: You cannot combine MapSend BlueNav.

A menu should come up that allows you to browse files.Name the file as follows: CMD.Bat. How to hack impero consoledownload free software programs online. Open notepad (which is in the start menu under accessories) Then type in 'Command.com' (whithout the quotation marks). Now for the tricky part. Click the save button under the file drop-down tab in the top left hand corner of the window. After that, type on a new line (by pressing the enter key once) 'pause' (once again with out the quotation marks).

This Problem can only be solved by adding a special Basemap to the package including more detailed coastline for these regions or using the WorldWide BaseMap. Unfortunately the WorldWide BaseMap seems to be uncompatible with Blue Nav,loading a WorldWide Map makes the SD Card unusable for uploading other marine charts! 2) Concerning the PC Software: There is no 'Gps Protocol' or 'GPS log' function (as available in Mapsend Streets or the WorldWide BaseMap), and there is no possibility to load down tracks from the GPSR. So it is not possible to connect the Meridian to the Laptop and see the trackline on the screen! I think this is an other severe limitation of this charts for practical navigation. The missing possibility of downloading tracks makes it even impossible to analyze tracks offline on the Computer screen.

3) A number of charts are defective,(at least 10 in Norway and 1 in Greece) giving a error message 'Severe Error- Data Error'. I heard from my Vendor, there will be a replacement CD in 1 month.I do hope so! Conclusion: The problems mentioned above are severe limitations for practical use of these marine maps. Until this problems are solved / corrected i think it is not worth the money. Dnevnik po praktike farmacevta. HTH Ed Maurer.