Max Compatible Products

Below are some of the manufacturers that have MAX compatible products available in 2005. Many other manufacturers intend to release MAX products during 2005, so do check that your chart plotter is MAX ready before buying.

MAX represents a giant step forward in chart technology that will empower a new generation of chart plotters with knock-out performance, blistering speed and unparalleled levels of accuracy and detail. What is more, the hardware of many existing models of chart plotter are already MAX Ready and can fully support MAX with a simple software update.

C-Maps award winning NT+ cartography (NMEA voted Best Electronic Charts for six consecutive years) has also had some great new changes to its catalogue and pricing structure to bring it in-line with MAX. The hundreds of thousands of existing NT+ users will all benefit from these changes and continue to purchase and update NT+ cartridges at even lower prices.

Existing C-Map customers, wishing to buy a new MAX plotter, will be pleased to learn that they can use their NT or NT+ cartridges in their new MAX plotter. By keeping this backward compatibility, C-Map are helping their customers to embrace new technology whilst avoiding the costly expense of having to buy a completely new set of cartridges.

As always there will also be a cartridge upgrade or trade-in program for people to move from NT/NT+ to MAX in a cost effective manner.

PC-Planner
In the early part of next year, C-Map will be updating their popular PC-Planner program to support MAX. It will be possible for existing PC-Planner users to upgrade to the new version.

MAXonPC
For customers with PC Navigation programs that use our much respected NTonPC charts, C-Map will release MAXonPC giving them the power of MAX on their PC.

Customers should talk to the manufacturer of their navigation software, as they will need to get an upgrade of their navigation software, as well as new or updated MAXonPC charts.