{"id":11,"date":"2022-03-21T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T10:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/navlog\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2024-01-25T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:25:06","slug":"download","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/presentation-page1\/presentation-page2-2\/download\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Best for NavLog<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencpn.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenCPN<\/a> (Web site)<\/li>\n<blockquote><p>\n \t<a href=\"http:\/\/o-charts.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soENC charts<\/a> for OpenCPN (Web site)<br \/>\n \t<a href=\"\/navlog\/download\/CM93 2018 cartes_2014.zip\">CM93 charts<\/a> for OpenCPN (ZIP download, possible copyright infringement)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calibre<\/a> (powerfull eBook manager)<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nSet \u00ab\u00a0C:\\Program Files\\Calibre2\\ebook-viewer.exe\u00a0\u00bb as ePub reader in the NavLog configuration (Installation tab)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/earth.google.com\/intl\/earth\/download\/ge\/agree.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Earth<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nSet \u00ab\u00a0C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Google Earth Pro\\client\\googleearth.exe\u00a0\u00bb in the NavLog configuration (Installation tab)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cartography &amp; Charts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/webapp.navionics.com\/#boating@15&amp;key=ixegJiut%7C%40\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Navionics charts viewer<\/a> (Web site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Navigation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arachnoid.com\/JTides\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JTides<\/a> (Web site)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arachnoid.com\/tides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tides<\/a> (old Web site) &#8211; For copyright reasons, it was superseded by JTides, but it contains much more European tide stations.<br \/>\nDownload <a href=\"\/navlog\/download\/tides37-already-installed.zip\">tides 3.7<\/a> anyway (copyright infringement). See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/navlog\/index.php\/home\/support\/more-tides-locations\/\">More locations for JTides<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.navmonpc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NavMonPc<\/a> (Web site)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zygrib.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zyGrib<\/a> (Web site)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.OpenGribs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XyGrib = OpenGrib<\/a> (Web site)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmonyhollow.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cool Timer<\/a> (Web site, used to wake me up)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gpsgate.com\/gpsgate-splitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franson GpsGate Splitter<\/a> (Web site, NMEA communication multiplexer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Utilities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stentec.com\/en\/news\/new-com-port-pap-blocker-for-stable-gps-connection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COM Port Plug &amp; Play blocker<\/a>. Sometimes Windows is mixing GPS and Mouse inputs. Then, the mouse becomes crazy, moving all the time and clicking everywhere. This utility allows to block the plug &amp; play feature on the selected COM port(s).<br \/>\n<u>Warning<\/u> : this tool must be installed by the \u00ab\u00a0Administrator\u00a0\u00bb (right click the installation program and select \u00ab\u00a0Run as Administrator\u00a0\u00bb).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.java.com\/en\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Java<\/a> (required for some apps)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7-Zip<\/a> (compress\/uncompress files)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sumatrapdfreader.org\/free-pdf-reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sumatra<\/a> (simple PDF reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pierre.lavergne1.free.fr\/special_voileux\/OpenCPN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pierre Lavergne<\/a> (Web site, infos &amp; downloads)<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best for NavLog OpenCPN (Web site) soENC charts for OpenCPN (Web site) CM93 charts for OpenCPN (ZIP download, possible copyright infringement) Calibre (powerfull eBook manager) Set \u00ab\u00a0C:\\Program Files\\Calibre2\\ebook-viewer.exe\u00a0\u00bb as ePub reader in the NavLog configuration (Installation tab) Google Earth Set&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/presentation-page1\/presentation-page2-2\/download\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":115,"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irisoft.be\/NavLog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}