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Insight Map Creator

Navicos mykvare for å lage dybdekart (Insight Genesis) har fått et nytt tilskudd, Insight Map Creator.

Poenget fra Navico sin side er at man kan lage:
- kart basert på skannede papirkart, feks NVE sine dybdekart
- lage kart i AT5-filformat fra Open Street Map Data
- lage vektorbaserte kart fra bathymetriske data.

MEN dette gjør også at det dukker opp en mulighet som passer brukere av Reefmaster (les; meg) i stand til å gjøre om Reefmasterkartene til AT5-filformat som passer perfekt i Lowrance og Simrad sine kartplottere og kombinasjonapparater.

Det er også vært å nevne at Map Creator er GRATIS. :)

Hva er vitsen?
- AT5-formatet er det formatet kartene fra Insight Genesis har, ergo et format Navico satser på.
- AT5 formatet gir mulighet for å bygge lag på lag i dybdekartet, som gir en tilnærmet sømløs overgang når man zoomer inn og ut. (Med LCM løses dette ved flere kartfiler, og så bytter kartplotteren mellom filene avhengig av zoomnivå).
- Bildeliknende kart som ser veldig fine ut, og som gir mulighet for å legge på bilder av sjøbunnen fra StructureScan på kartet.
- Mulighet for å lage kart med bunntyper i kartet, Feks hard bunn eller myk bunn.
- Mulighet for å lage fargekoding i kartet som standard, dvs legge på farge etter dyp eller symboler for å markere grunner, sjøkabler, vrak etc.

Reefmaster kommer med en oppdatering etterhvert, tilpasset eksport til Map Creator. For øyeblikket må du bruke et tredje program for å konvertere LCM-filen fra Reefmaster til et av formatene som Map Creator godtar.

Mer info kommer når jeg får testet dette selv. Ikke hold pusten for dette var high-tec så jeg trenger litt tid og noen pils før jeg har fordøyd de 46 sidene med engelskspråklig teknikkspesifikasjon som utgjør bruksanvisningen. :)

(foto: www.lowrance.com)

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