Need inexpensive navigation software for pda

[Survivor]

I have a HP1955 pda and use it for my gps in the car. How do I use this for a navigation system on my boat.

Harris

[smackdaddy]

Don't know about the HP - but I have an iPhone with the iNav and AyeTides apps. Pretty freakin' cool.

[Survivor]

Thanks smack but it won't work on hp pda.

[GraemeInCanada]

Kinda like smackdaddy, I have the iPhone and app navionics with the $10 maps of the BC coast and aye tides (although navi has the current/tides in it too). Awesome deal and hugely recommended. Doesn't replace the paper charts that you must have on board but serves a great purpose in mapping, tracking figuring out distance and time and gas etc etc.

Compare that to my HP IPaq which pales in comparison. I've yet to see anything that really runs on it other than the maps that are in it from god knows when.. 5 years ago? or so. What I'm trying to say here is that moving away from the PDA was the best thing I did.

[trantor12020]

I've Compaq iPaq 3970. Load it with OziexplorerCE ( The Official OziExplorer Web Site - GPS Mapping Software for Magellan, Garmin, Lowrance, Eagle, MLR Receivers ). I then scan any chart, use Oziexplorer PC version to calibrate the scanned chart and loaded it to my iPaq. Works just like a chart plotter when Bluetooth to a GPS.

[pauljohnson1222]

i am thinking of purchasing it. It has a PDA Option...

[CaptKermie]

If your PDA uses Windows Mobile 6.1 or any other device that uses windows mobile can also run Active Captain which incorporates the use of NOAA charts for navigation. For $20.00 you can have your entire NOAA region loaded and navigate with it using the built in GPS
I use the new Samsung Omnia SCH i910 cell phone (with built in GPS) and run Active Captain on it quite sucessfully, it is pretty cool also.

[DropTop]

Originally Posted by trantor12020

I then scan any chart, use Oziexplorer PC version to calibrate the scanned chart and loaded it to my iPaq.

why not just download the already calibrated charts from NOAA, for free? They are also going to be more up to date than the paper ones you purchased and scanned...

NOAA Raster Navigational Charts

edit: the URL won't save correctly because of the tag at the end, so I changed it to a tinyurl

[LydiaD]

I think you may have the answer you were searching for but I just wanted to let you know that I'm here and available to answer any additional question you may have on the Navionics iPhone App or any Navionics product. Lydia, Navionics CS Manager.

[hellosailor]

Does the iPhone (any of the iPhones) have a true complete GPS in it?

Apple has said they have "agps" which means "assisted GPS" which in turn means it doesn't work without a data network connection. "agps" phones receive the gps satellite signal but are incapable of processing it. Or so I've been told.

Most US cellular carriers have insisted on agps instead of standalone gps, in order to extort the extort data fees from their customers.