Chart Application Overview - Raymarine E Series User Reference Handbook

6.1 Chart application overview

The chart application provides an electronic chart with passage
planning and navigation features. It combines 2D and 3D viewpoints
and provides a variety of cartographic information regarding your
surroundings and charted objects.
Typical uses for the chart application include :
• Monitor your vessel location and heading.
• Interpret your surroundings.
• Measure distance and bearing.
• Navigate using waypoints.
• Plan, and Navigate using routes.
• Monitor fixed and moving objects using radar overlay.
• Monitor vessels in your vicinity using AIS data.
• Keep track and record your course.
• View information for charted objects.
• Overlay NOWRad weather information.
• Overlay aerial photos and other chart enhancements
Note: To obtain full 3D detail, you must have chart cards
containing 3D cartography for the appropriate geographic area.
You can also use your multifunction display to customize your chart
application to your own particular requirements and circumstances.
You can:
• Alter the way the chart is drawn in relation to your vessel and the
direction you are travelling in (chart orientation and motion mode).
• Manage and edit chart data you have entered.
• Control the level of detail displayed on-screen.
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Multiple applications
With most applications, it is possible to run 4 instances of the same
application at any one time. However there are 2 exceptions to
this, which are:
• Chart application — maximum 2 simultaneous instances per
multifunction display.
• Sirius satellite radio application — maximum 1 instance per
multifunction display, at any one time.
• Video application — maximum 1 instance per multifunction
display, at any one time.
Chart datum
The chart datum setting affects the accuracy of the vessel position
information displayed in the chart application.
In order for your GPS receiver and multifunction display to correlate
accurately with your paper charts, they must be using the same
datum.
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