[CA] Symbol sets for Axiom

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

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When I reference RayTech, I am referring to Raymarine's RayTech RNS 6.2 and RayTech Planner 6.2. The symbol set produced by this computer application is the same as that which had been supported by Raymarine's A/C/E-Series Classic MFDs, C/E-Series Widescreen MFDs, and G-Series GPM400s. This same symbol set and more symbols are present supported by Raymarine Voyage Planner and Raymarines MFDs running LightHouse II and LightHouse 3 software. However, RayTech RNS / Planner 6.2 is not designed to support waypoint/route planning for MFDs running LightHouse II and LightHouse 3 software. Raymarine Voyage Planner software is offered for such purposes. When GPX files produced by Raymarine Voyage Planner are imported into MFDs running LightHouse II and LightHouse 3 software, the symbols assigned within Voyage Planner will be persist after importing the GPX file into the MFD.

Waypoint symbol sets are not universal among marine electronics manufacturers and navigational planning software producers. The unfortunate result is that waypoint symbols are often lost when porting waypoints and routes from one manufacturers marine electronics to another or from some third party navigational planning software to marine electronics. This is generally addressed by using a navigational planning application produced or by the marine electronics manufacturer. Well designed third party navigational planning software will often feature a setting whereby the operator may specify the make/model of marine electronics that waypoint/route/track data will be exported for use with. When so configured, the third party navigational planning software will then limit the waypoint symbol set available during planning to that of the targeted marine electronics. Some may even try to map one manufacturer's symbol set to another manufacturer's symbol set. That said, a feature request will be submitted to consider support for the symbol set supported by C-Plot computer navigational planning software.

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