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Having steered a large open boat, with a Perkins between my feet, through unfamiliar waters in the Finnish archipelago, and a plastic chart case on the seat, I could certainly see how an interactive mobile marine chart version could be a killer.

The map would always be oriented in the direction the phone is pointing. Standard courses would be marked, including your deviation. Depth alarms (based on chart position). Time to destination. Compass. Hmmmm!

Shall we take this one to Nokia? ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 02:24:38 PM EST
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Well if we don't someone will.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 02:30:30 PM EST
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This marine navigator function should have an available video output to drive a larger display, something you could glance at without having to take your eyes off of everything else for too long.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 02:55:16 PM EST
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GPS appeared on boats before it appeared on land.

The real thing often comes with real time depth mapping, because silt tends to move, so at the edges of a channel you can't be sure of the safe depth. It also varies with tidal phase and season.

See e.g. here.

Also, Nokia might not go for it because there are a lot more drivers than boat owners. ;)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 07:42:24 PM EST
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