MigGat - I think this must be asked before but ...
I think this must be asked before but I can't find it. Is there any way to use o-chart maps with Freeboard-SK. I'm aware of all legal stuff, but thought that it could be used in AvNav via dongle, why not in Freeboard?
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Freeboard-SK supports common vector & raster & chart sources served via the
charts-plugin.
Encrypted chart formats will need to be decrypted prior to being published by the charts-plugin.i have not done it, but afaik AvNav provides a RNC service on the local network. you can add that to the charts plugin as an external chart source (like you'd add google maps or similar). that will add the chart to the Signal K chart api and Freeboard will pick it up from there
so AvNav does this in cooperation with o-charts, using their code for decrypting the chart data
Thanks for the info, i will dig into it! Having that option would make Freeboard the ultimate plotter for me 😄
Please share your results!
I'm making some advances on the decrypting process, hope it will be solved today, but what formats can signalk-chart read? Specially since this are vector charts, with annotations on it
see my direct message