“Hey, you got your ActiveCaptain in my Rose Point Coastal Explorer!”
“Well you got your Coastal Explorer in my Active Captain!”
“It tastes great!”
ActiveCaptain’s Jeffrey Siegel just sent out the announcement below, and it should come as no surprise that I’m fairly “gung ho” about this. In my previous Cruising Wiki surveys (Cruising wiki shoot-out #1 and Cruising wiki shoot-out #2), ActiveCaptain has come out ahead of the competition. When you combine that with my ongoing love affair with Rose Point Coastal Explorer, the potential seems obvious.
In this screen capture, you can see symbols for both the Rose Point and the ActiveCaptain notations I added about the old oil pier:
Here’s a link to the announcement from Rose Point, and here’s the announcement from Mr. Siegel:
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We are excited to announce that another major navigation program has adopted ActiveCaptain for its point-of-interest data. Coastal Explorer 2010 will include ActiveCaptain markers. The latest released beta version has it fully implemented for this phase of the integration.
With Coastal Explorer 2010, all of the ActiveCaptain markers can be accessed offline so you don’t need an Internet connection. Then when you are connected, Coastal Explorer will synchronize the data ensuring that you have the most up-to-date information possible. The marker details and reviews that you love on the website can be accessed right along with all of the wonderful chartplotter features Coastal Explorer offers.
Coastal Explorer brings even more users to ActiveCaptain. It’s robust features including integrated weather, Coast Pilot, voyage planning, and now ActiveCaptain make it a popular solution for PC’s.
The beta version is available now once you have purchased Coastal Explorer. We will be offering the software at a guaranteed unbeatable price to our captains. Purchasing from us helps support the ActiveCaptain web site too. If you’re interested in purchasing the software right now, email us – we’ll provide pricing and purchase information even before you can buy the software from our web site.
We’re planning some articles to help new users get acquainted with Coastal Explorer and will provide technical support for questions about using the software. We want you to think of ActiveCaptain when you want to use your laptop for navigation – we’ll provide the software and help you get started like no other dealer ever could.
Again we want to be perfectly clear. The web site and all of the ActiveCaptain data remains 100% free. That won’t change.
We’ll have more announcements coming up as more developers are working on integrating our data into their products. Stay tuned.
