[Rhodes22-list] Robert's Question on free charts... Lee will youcomment on this picture...

[Robert Skinner]

Thank you, Ed, for your thoughtful reply.

I found my problem.  The site does not work with the 
Opera browser.  When I used (with teeth clenched) the 
Microsoft Internet Explorer, I was able to create an 
account and download a 206 MB chart .EXE file for my
area.  I assume that it is in zipped form, will see 
when it is all here.

I wonder how things work in Firefox, etc. Windows 
alternatives, or LINUX/Apple-based browsers?

Can anyone relate personal experience with this?

/Robert
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Tootle wrote:
> 
> Robert said he tried and they did not work.  I have not had problems using
> the North and South Carolina maps until I reformatted my hard drive.  On
> Wednesday, I redownloaded the maps pages that I posted and was able to use
> them again.  When I saved the previous version there was evidentially a
> registry code that was not saved.
> 
> I would suggest the following.  Clean the old version off your hard drive.
> If you know how and are comfortable, clean registry by hand.  Then go to:
> 
>  http://www.maptech.com/support/downloads.cfm?plid=17   to download viewer.
> 
> Follow directions to download view.  Even with high speed access, it takes a
> few minutes.  Because all the maps will take up a lot of space, I like to
> create a directory directly in "C" Drive and save all programs and data
> (maps) to that specific directory.
> 
> Go back to:
> 
> http://www.freeboatingcharts.com/
> 
> And download maps that you want.  I prefer to a the whole region so that you
> can have contiguous viewing.  That can take a lot of time downloading.  Let
> the thing download and go have a cup of coffee and read something or take
> the dogs for a walk.
> 
> Remember this is just a 'sampler' of the whole program which you can
> purchase.  If you want to take the stuff on a boat, I would purchase the
> program and maps on CD just to have a hard copy with me.  Since I do not
> loose sight of land and usually just sail along, I seldom use hard copy maps
> or my gps.
> 
> While the program is design so that you cannot print out maps from the free
> version, I have a screen print routine that allows me to save a screen of
> anything as a picture (Tiff format) and print that.
> 
> Again, for home use, it works fine.
> 
> Lee, will you provide detail description of this picture?
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p16177175/Lee%2Bwill%2Bprovide%2Bdetails.gif
> Lee+will+provide+details.gif
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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