I toyed, for many years, with the idea of buying the MemoryMap Quickcharts Australian Eastcoast CD and then the direct download. By the time I finally pulled the trigger on my purchase, they were no longer available. So my question is, does anybody still use them or, if they have since moved on to something else, would they be interested in selling the CD. I know folk are going to recommend Navionics, but I've been purchasing Navionics again and again and again for years now and I'm getting fed up with the move to subscriptions that many businesses are pushing us towards. Besides, I'm not keen on Vector charts on small screens.
I still use Memory-Map but I am mindfull that the last chart package of raster scanned Australian charts was issued and correct up to 2015. I have this on a 10" tablet and I cross reference and run Ocpn with the latest Australian charts via "O charts" which are kept up to date via subscription for 35 euros per year. I run both apps concurrently on the same tablet.
I much prefer the old school look of raster images of paper charts which were presented by the AHO as the complete picture of all we need to navigate around Aus. But they are sadly becoming more innacurate especially around harbours and rivers.
My MM licences were issued against my name and log in details so cannot be passed on.
The package is no longer legally offered for sale online.
Yeah, I don't fancy my chances of getting hold of them. I'm tinkering with my old paper charts and scanners etc and I'm not overly concerned with accuracy. I'm not sailing oceans and making landfall in a 40 tonne behemoth, I'm pottering along in a fourteen and a half foot open dinghy and relying almost exclusively on the mark one eyeball. It would be nice though to have a reasonable notion of where I am - roughly. With one hand on the tiller and the other for the mainsheet, you sometimes don't have the luxury of handling gadgets, hence the desire for a raster chart based moving map. I've just bought a cool looking 'ruggedised' tablet, with a decent battery capacity, so I'm checking out some options for that.
I'm not a fan of navionics or any other non official chart app. If you're not concerned about accuracy then navionics is ok I guess. If you don't update the app it will still work no need for subscription. I have an old version on an iPad 2017
