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Navionics charts trade policy [Update-2]

Alas, it was too good ! On 15 last March I wrote an enthusiastic note announcing the option to renew for 900 days, for half the original price of each Navionics region, time to update charts. As we say in Martinique : ça a pris fin !
Actually, since a few days the renewal was reduced to one year. Fugawi commercial service, [...]

BlueChart Mobile, Garmin went up on iPad

After posting version 1.0 on August 1 2012 gone relatively unnoticed, Garmin updated version 1.0.3 fully completed of its app on January, 2 2013.
BlueChart Mobile, today only for Apple iOS devices, uses the full vector mapping BlueChart g2 and g2Vision from the undisputed leader of GPS leisure (¹). Adopting the look and feel familiar to users of the brand, thereof [...]

Navigation Apps : the news of the return

While I held my summer studious testing hardware and software in conditions of extreme hardship, developers lined fierce relentless miles of lines of code to improve our navigation applications. What devotion, what sacrifice !
Concerning navigation applications, come mainly from the new Navionics Marine and Transas iSailor. In honor where honor, start with the leader of our smartphones [...]

Imray Marine 2.0

On 7 th June, 2012, Imray has released its navigation app for iPhone and iPad.
It is now a free app and includes online charts purchase directly from the application.
Two charts of the Channel are always provided as standard for test, and a world map shows the areas of charts region available.

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Updated iOS5 and iNavX

Richard Ray tells us :

I noticed after updating iOS 5 all my downloaded maps in iNavX disappeared. This occurred because the iOS update 5 update requires a full restore of the device and the charts are not stored in the iOS backup (because of iCloud). Let me know if you have a different operating.
To restore any NOAA charts, then select [...]

Plan2Nav the C-Map charting on iPhone/iPad

The application Jeppesen Marine Plan2Nav arrived on iTunes AppStore during September for iPhone and iPad.
As I detailed in a previous post (¹), the Italian company C-Map has been owned 2007 by the US Jeppesen, leader in aerial mapping, depending on the Boeing group. We knew that Jeppesen was preparing an application for smartphone, Panbo had seen a draft in March at the Miami Boat Show, is now done, but…

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Free ENC river charts for use with MacENC

As part of its policy to offer users a leak ever more efficient and safe, the public institution Waterways of France embarked on the production of electronic navigational charts on various domestic routes in its network. The first two : link "Dunkirk-Escaut" and "La Garonne" is published.
The big surprise, unique in the history of the French administration, is that these cards are [...]

Manage marine charts on the server x-traverse.com

Since May 2009, Fugawi society has commissioned its download site charts x-traverse.com. Through an annual subscription to have a file storage space, you can buy charts region from multiple vendors, whose vector maps Navionics Gold .
Once purchased online, folios of maps are available for ONE YEAR on personal space. They can activate [...]

iSailor, charts are available for France

Transas has updated the list of new maps available for iSailor, include coasts of France :
∙ Germany ∙ Australia ∙ Bermuda ∙ Canada ∙ Denmark ∙ Egypt ∙ Spain ∙ Estonia ∙ Finland ∙ France ∙ Greece ∙ Italy ∙ Ireland ∙ Latvia ∙ New Zealand ∙ Norway ∙ Papua New Guinea ∙ Netherlands ∙ Portugal ∙ United Kingdom ∙ Sweden ∙ USA : Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific [...]

Are electronic charts prescribed in France ?

This question comes back to me from time to time, and as no one is supposed to ignore the law, I feel obliged to make my contribution to the edification of the crowds (boating) providing a collective response.

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