psneeld
Guru
Well... sorta...
The updated source is current, but the version in everyone's plotter may or (more usually) may not be.
Garmin, for example, appears to update their vector charts once/year (and charges $100/year for that). Furuno and Time Zero -- via MapMedia -- updates NOAA vector and raster charts once/year (no charge, don't know how long raster updates will continue). I'd guess the other makers do updates similarly?
-Chris
I think he was , well at least I was..... referring to NOAA vector charts that are now required for some commercial operations.
That's why I said I would never go back to the typical marine plotter for recreational guys.
I tremendously dislike their proprietary cartography philosophy and I don't believe they can run the NOAA professional level vector stuff.
Though I am not sure personal computing equipment can either. Fortunately I am not in the market for either now....but then again I can get by for the rest of my life on current vector/raster stuff as I don't seem to have the same problems with all this nav discussion of this and that.