Explorations Central - port planner

[travelingla]

I will be on the Nieuw Statendam in a few months and am under the impression that we can search our port in EXC for the sites we are interested in and print out a personalized walking map with these sites on it.

 

For those of you who have used EXC, Is this correct?

 

If not, then I will need to print this out from home.

 

Thanks so much.

[kwb101]

Having seen the EXC setup on several ships, I would try the CC port boards for information. As I remember, the EXC content was rather general,and not useful in planning much. 

[travelingla]

On 1/2/2020 at 6:11 PM, kwb101 said:

Having seen the EXC setup on several ships, I would try the CC port boards for information. As I remember, the EXC content was rather general,and not useful in planning much. 

That is very disappointing & nothing like I read initially about the purpose. Even the video on it shows ‘table size’ ‘iPad-like tables with folks swiping a map on it.  I was checking on the printing info. I will call HAL & see if I can find specifics.  I just thought I’d ask here in case others had made use of it. You said you’ve seen it on several ships.  Thanks for your reply.

[Crew News]

The NS does have huge map tables but I did not see any printing capability two weeks ago when I was onboard.

[FOPMan]

I concur with Crew News- I didn’t see any printers.

[kwb101]

On the ships I've been on, no printers. The monitors are huge, but are not much better than the "interactive" map on HAL's website: pretty, but largely useless (and annoying, because going day-by-day often means you stop in the middle of the ocean on multiple sea day legs, with no redeemer to whet you are). Information-dense it is not. I think much of HAL's screen designs are aimed at mobile devices, not especially fruitful when the screen is tabletop-size.

Hope you find what you need. 

[travelingla]

5 hours ago, kwb101 said:

On the ships I've been on, no printers. The monitors are huge, but are not much better than the "interactive" map on HAL's website: pretty, but largely useless (and annoying, because going day-by-day often means you stop in the middle of the ocean on multiple sea day legs, with no redeemer to whet you are). Information-dense it is not. I think much of HAL's screen designs are aimed at mobile devices, not especially fruitful when the screen is tabletop-size.

Hope you find what you need. 

I am so sad about this..... but so glad I asked!! Thank you all for responding! Seems like a lot of wasted money 🤑

 

We plan to do a lot of 'self guided' walking in ports so I had visions of plotting the sites on a map here & printing them off....I cannot even remember now where I got that incorrect info 😏   Now  I will be plotting my own maps before I go.

 

Thank you all!

but...... I am hard-headed & will still call HAL to see what they say about the 'benefit' & 'purpose' of this area!! 😋

[Crew News]

4 hours ago, travelingla said:

I am so sad about this..... but so glad I asked!! Thank you all for responding! Seems like a lot of wasted money 🤑

 

We plan to do a lot of 'self guided' walking in ports so I had visions of plotting the sites on a map here & printing them off....I cannot even remember now where I got that incorrect info 😏   Now  I will be plotting my own maps before I go.

 

Thank you all!

but...... I am hard-headed & will still call HAL to see what they say about the 'benefit' & 'purpose' of this area!! 😋

 

You are echoing the thoughts of many here on the HAL Forum when HAL decided to convert the Crows Nest library and loungers to map tables, travel books, and chairs.

[Been There, Planning That]

Google Tom's port guides for your ports.  We've had good luck with his generous postings.

 

Ruth

[travelingla]

6 hours ago, Been There, Planning That said:

Google Tom's port guides for your ports.  We've had good luck with his generous postings.

 

Ruth

yes, I've read his helpful info