Announced on this blog in September (¹), the housing AxcessPoint company Iridium can now make requests and receive files from a GRIB weather iPad or an iPhone on the high seas, into the wild, anywhere on the world.
Having implemented and tested this solution on a long journey, I can say that it is fully operational.
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Iridium AxcessPoint : GRIB weather files on iPhone and iPad in open sea
Navigation iPad : the integral solution
Avec Weather4D PRO et AxcessPoint, associated with an Iridium satellite phone, we now have a complete solution, reliable and low cost to receive, display and manage GRIB files in open seas with iPad.
iNavX and Navionics cartography also provide a complete navigation solution, supporting files transfers with Weather4D PRO : GRIB, routes, tracks, that allows simultaneous display in both applications.
These solutions, [...]
Weather4D PRO 1.0 includes routes from iNavX
The new application for iOS Weather4D PRO (iPhone / iPad), developed by Olivier Bouyssou, was submited yesterday to Apple. It provides advanced features associated with GRIB files for demanding users. It complements the application Weather4D who got promoted to be the best apps in Apple AppStore for several weeks.
This Pro version, quickly available, will provide following features :
GRIB files management :
Import, sharing (export ), copy-paste, ranking [...]
Predict thunderstorms with Weather4D
The new version Weather4D 1.2 features a new weather parameter : CAPE
Convective Available Potential Energy, in French : Available potential energy of convection. Behind these names barbarians hiding a powerful tool for predicting storms. The CAPE is measured in joules per kilogram of air (J / Kg) and defines the energy of a particle buoyancy of warmer air in a colder atmosphere. In other words, the vertical acceleration of the particle [...]
When Katia meets La Louise
Thierry Dubois and his crew, Jacques Vermeulen experimenting with the Iridium connection with its new MacBook Air, should not laugh at a time when I post this short note.
La Louise, conveying from Newfoundland to La Trinité, is in the making up of Hurricane Katia, ex-tropical cyclone, which must reach the shores of the British Isles the next night. According to the latest position and the estimated speed, [...]
Using an Iridium phone with Mac OS X
British society Mailasail, I am now the representative in France for Mac users, provides tools to connect directly an Iridium to Mac OS X. A driver designed by them can now transfer data from a mail application in OS X, mainly Mail or Thunderbird, and surf the Internet.
We can make requests for weather files [...]
zyGrib for Mac now really "Apple like"
zyGrib, the GRIB weather file viewer developed for Linux and well-known PC world, been ported to Mac, since version 5.0, is a real progress compared to earlier versions. Since early 2011 it is distributed in executable version for Mac (Intel) ready to use, as a package in a disk image (.dmg).
We must welcome the community of this development which achieves [...]
Meteo Consult embarks on iPhone and iPad
Founded in 1988, Meteo Consult the company was the first private weather in France. It was mainly developed forecasting services paid for professional, leaving the public service Meteo France forecasts free care for the general public. Meteo Consult is best known in the field of ocean racing, where it gained an almost exclusive dominance.
Become a subsidiary of Prosodie in [...]
Weather4D 1.1 iPad and iPhone, on top.
Two months after out for iPhone, Weather4D (¹), by surprising Olivier Bouyssou, comes with a fully optimized version for iPad, with the modest release number 1.1.
This unique version iPhone / iPad is a simple free upgrade for the lucky purchasers of version 1.0.
And yet, what work it took to adjust and optimize the 3D application, both screens and memory capabilities of iPhone [...]
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