Thus the combination of PLANNING and LOGISTICS for the long term decisions and NAVIGATION and MANOEUVRING for the short term decisions of the skipper is facilitated. As soon as this task is done and the user zooms in to a certain level of detail, the overview charts are replaced by the detailed and accurate ENC’s (if these are available for the concerned area!). The voyage planning software in PC-Navigo, however, will “step back” to an overview level that allows it to perform the long distance planning task first. if you want to plan a voyage to Budapest) then this detailed chart presentation is useless: the computer would not be able to handle all the details simultaneously. If you consult PC-Navigo for matters that involve a larger area (e.g. The navigable channel and everything in it is show with a remarkable accuracy, and by means of a GPS reliable navigation conclusions can be drawn from the chart. The chart image is compiled by means of the official ENC’s (Electronic Nautical Charts) and all features that have an impact on the navigation are show in great detail, including buoys, beacons, traffic signs and marks, and constructions. In the second image you see the same junction, but now in an official navigation chart of Rijkswaterstaat, presented by PC-Navigo in “navigation mode”. That information has to be available over a large range, in order to plan from departure point to destination, but details like buoys, lights and channel depths are of little importance.īut when used as an aid to navigation, the near-by details are just as important as the long distance data or perhaps even more important: in such a situation, the ENC viewer provides the exact chart image, including buoys and beacons, lights and dangers, lock chambers and pontoons, thus allowing safe and secure navigation. When used for planning and logistical purposes, PC-Navigo doesn’t need so much detail, of course: it’s enough to know where a vessel can pass and when it can pass.

The charts that can be made visible are so called ENC (Electronic Navigation Chart) which contain a huge amount of detail, up to the colour and shape of buoys and beacons and the position of the navigable channel. But apart from all functionalities that allow the computer to plan and analyse a voyage, PC-Navigo now also contains a so called Inland ECDIS chart viewer. PC-Navigo is originally a Voyage Planner for the inland waterways of Europe. PC-Navigo and the Inland-ECDIS (ENC) charts

Enc viewer