Chart Application Overview - Raymarine a Series Installation And Operation Instructions Manual

16.1 Chart application overview

The chart application provides route planning and navigation
features. The Chart application is pre-loaded with a basic
world base map. Compatible electronic charts can be used to
expand the information and detail regarding your surroundings
and charted objects. Depending on cartography type the chart
application can be set to 2D or 3D view.
Typical chart application tasks include :
• Monitoring your vessel location and heading.
• Interpreting your surroundings.
• Measuring distance and bearing.
• Navigating using waypoints.
• Planning, and Navigating using routes.
• Keeping track and recording your course.
• Viewing information for charted objects.
• Monitoring fixed and moving objects using radar overlay.
• Monitoring AIS equipped vessels in your vicinity using AIS
overlay.
• Monitoring US and Canadian weather information using the
NOWRad overlay.
• Displaying aerial photos using the aerial overlay.
Note: To obtain full 3D detail, you must have chart cards
containing 3D cartography for the appropriate geographic
area.
The chart application can be customized. 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.
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.
The default datum for your multifunction display is WGS1984.
If this is not the datum used by your paper charts, you can
change the datum used by your multifunction display, using the
system preferences page. The system preferences page can be
accessed from the homescreen: Set-up > System Settings >
System Preferences > System Datum.
When you change the datum for your multifunction display, the
chart grid will subsequently move according to the new datum,
and the latitude/longitude of the cartographic features will also
change accordingly. Your multifunction display will attempt to set
up any GPS receiver to the new datum, as follows:
• If your multifunction display has a built in GPS receiver it will
automatically correlate each time you change the datum.
• If you have a Raymarine GPS receiver using SeaTalk or
SeaTalk ng , it will automatically correlate each time you change
the datum on the multifunction display.
• If you have a Raymarine GPS receiver using NMEA0183, or a
third-party GPS receiver, you must correlate it separately.
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It may be possible to use your multifunction display to correlate
an NMEA0183 GPS receiver. From the homescreen go to
Set-up > System settings > GPS Set-up > View Satellite
Status. If the datum version is displayed, it may be possible
to change it. From the homescreen go to Set-up > System
settings > Data Sources > GPS Datum.
Note: Raymarine recommends that you check the displayed
vessel position in the chart application against your actual
proximity to a known charted object. A typical GPS has an
accuracy of between 5 and 15 m.
Chart context menu
The Chart context menu provides the cursors positional data
and shortcuts to menu options.
The method of selecting a chart object using a touchscreen
display depends on the Context Menu setting in the chart
Set-up menu, which can be set to Touch or Hold.
The context menu provides the following positional data for the
cursor position in relation to your vessel:
• Latitude
• Longitude
• Range
• Bearing
The following menu items are available:
• Goto Cursor / Stop Goto / Stop Follow
• Place Waypoint
• Photo
• Tide Station (only available if a tide station is selected.)
• Current Station (only available if a current station is selected.)
• Pilot Book (only available at certain ports.)
• Animate (only available if a tide or current station is selected.)
• Chart Objects
• Find Nearest
• Measure
• Build Route
• Acquire Target (only available if Radar overlay is switched
on.)
• Slew thermal camera (only available when thermal camera
is connected and operating.)
Accessing the context menu
You can access the context menu by following the steps below.
1. Non-touchscreen and HybridTouch displays:
i. Selecting a location, object or target on-screen and
pressing the Ok button.
2. HybridTouch and Touch only displays:
i. Selecting an object or target on-screen.
ii. Selecting and holding on a location on-screen.
Selecting context menu settings
On touchscreen multifunction displays you can choose how
chart object context menus are a accessed.
From the Homescreen:
1. Select Customize.
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