Subscribe to our newsletter   POI'd Off  This C-Map POI data is
the best available, but it's still full of errors.  It's my good
fortune that I get to spend many a fine summer's day hanging
around beautiful, bustling Camden Harbor, Maine. Often I'm
fooling with some new charting wonder because that's my job, and
often I'm also scanning locally busy VHF channels because I'm
curious about how well these products are working out for
regular boaters. What I observe is that modern electronics have
made getting into the harbor fairly easy, but the theoretically
invaluable Points of Interest (POIs), i.e. all those icons
splattered over the latest electronic charts, don't seem that
useful. It's just amazing how much radio time and who knows how
many cellphone calls it costs many newcomers just to figure out
what their dock and mooring possibilities are.  If you compare
what's on the electronic charts to Camden reality, the confusion
is totally understandable. I'll illustrate with the C-Map Max
card, because it's actu