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bullet Product Overview
bullet Navigation
bullet Charts and Navigation
   Data Included
bullet Ultimate Situational
   Awareness
bullet Enterprise Licensing
bullet Customize to Your
   Specific Needs


Overview

Designed for Professionals by Professionals

For over 15 years professional mariners have put their trust in the CAPN. Why? CAPN listens and delivers what real working Captains want. No fancy fluff, just a real-life practical navigation tool for workboat, merchant and government professionals.

The CAPN features:
  • The most advanced and practical navigation features available anywhere.
  • AIS and video camera ready.
  • The best charts and navigation data from official sources for the entire US, including commercial inland waterways.
  • Enterprise licensing and support for cost effective fleet-wide deployment.
  • Maptech's software and chart customization services for your specific needs.
  • All backed by Maptech's legendary customer support!
Other navigation companies and products come and go. Maptech and CAPN are here to stay. Finally, a clear choice for marine professionals.





Navigation

Powerful

The CAPN interfaces with AIS, NEMA autopilot, GPS/DGPS/WASS, compass, and depth sounder. Charts are easily rotated between course-up, north-up, and route-up display orientations. Other features include route export in GPX format for transfer to GPS units; on-chart tide and current display; celestial navigation module; full-fledged log-keeping and vessel management, plus much, much more.

Practical

Large, plotter-style tool buttons provide instant access to important functions and make CAPN ideal for use with touch screens and Tablet PCs. Transparency level adjustments allow underlying chart data to be seen right through the tool bars so full-screen chart size is never sacrificed. Labels, waypoints, and symbols can also be set at custom transparency levels.

Smart Chart LogicTM

The CAPN's proprietary Smart Chart Logic technology, not only allows seamless quilting and hybrid display of vector and raster charts, but also intelligently selects the best-scale-type charts for the current zoom level and location. Overlay feature allows various chart types to be set at different levels of transparency, creating a single integrated chart. The best and most comprehensive official charts displayed in the clearest format.





Charts and Navigation Data Included

Entire US Included

CAPN US DVD SET includes all available Official raster and vector charts, aerial photos, and 3D bathy charts covering the US, including commercial inland waterways. Yes, they're all included in a set of 18 DVDs! All the charts you need without having to spend additional money for additional chart regions or chart types!
Entire US included
Areas of Coverage
for The CAPN DVD Set

Vector Charts

The CAPN integrates both Official NOAA and Corps of Engineers S57-ENC (Electronic Navigational Charts) with NGA military DNC (Digital Nautical Charts) to provide you the best US coverage and detail. Smart Chart Logic makes it easy to select the best chart for every situation.

Raster Charts and Photos

The CAPN provides the best Official NOAA RNC (Raster Nautical Charts) coverage available for the US. Fully integrates SoftChart and Maptech/BSB. High resolution aerial photos provide additional detail and situational awareness.

3D Bathy Charts

The CAPN includes NOAA and Corps of Engineers bathymetric survey data, and displays this otherwise difficult to interpret information as colorful 3D ocean floor maps.

Tides and Currents

Yes, they are included too. Display them separately or right on top of your charts!





Ultimate Situational Awareness

AIS - Ready

Connect an Automated Identification System (AIS) receiver to your PC. Then let CAPN plot the position, course, speed, type, size and identity of commercial traffic near your vessel. When combined with radar, this is ultimate situational awareness.

Video Camera - Ready

Monitor your engine room, cargo areas, barges, passenger areas or docking! CAPN comes ready to work with video cameras and installation is a breeze. Separate video feed windows can be opened within CAPN, and minimized or resized as desired.

Alerts

Visual and audible alerts for vital events such as Waypoint Approach/Arrival, Alarm Zone Approach/Entry, Man Overboard, Outside Anchor Zone, Cross Track Error, and GPS Trouble. CAPN is the only program that allows you to dead reckon and easily plot manual bearings (LOPs) should your GPS fail.





Enterprise Licensing

Corporate-Wide Use

Optional Enterprise Licensing allows you to use CAPN software and charts on as many computers as you wish. Use it on one or more computers on all your vessels. Use it on your simulators. Use it on your office PCs. We even encourage your employees to use The CAPN at home or on their pleasure boats to boost knowledge and experience. An Enterprise License allows all of this!

Fair Fixed Price

Our Enterprise Licensing program is based on negotiating a "Fair Price". This price includes software, charts, and services. Once agreed upon, the annual fee will be fixed over a three year period. Pricing is based on today's fleet size and needs, which allows you to accurately budget without worrying about adding people or vessels as your business grows or needs change. We make budgeting simple!

Government Customers

Call us at (888) 839-5551 to discuss Agency-Wide Licensing at a Fair Fixed Price.





Customize to Your Specific Needs

Software

Optional software customization services allow you to add special functions or features to CAPN, as well as integrate it with any existing software or other navigation systems. We've done this for large and small customers alike. Call us and we will develop a plan that meets your needs.

Charts and Data

Optional cartography production services provide you charts and aerial photographs in areas not covered by governmental charts. Or let us customize existing charts with information overlays specific to your vessels and operations. Maptech is the only PC navigation company capable of providing you these important services.




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