Charting

The magnetic north pole is on the move [Update-2025]

Earth's magnetic north pole is rapidly moving away from the Canadian Arctic towards Siberia. NCEI scientists (¹) updated the global magnetic model (WMM) 2025.

Imray abandons the publication of maps and refocuses its activities

Imray abandonne la publication des cartes et recentre ses activités

The end of an era ! After more than 200 years spent guiding sailors, Imray will begin to gradually cease its nautical chart publishing activities, thus marking the end of an era. This difficult decision reflects the shift to Read more …

InavX adopts Imray charts

InavX adopte les cartes Imray

With the latest version 5.6.35 from February the 25 th last September, iNavX integrates the Imray mapping offered by its supplier SiiTech (¹). NavX Studios does not hesitate to announce in its communication : As the leading publisher of nautical information for leisure sailors, Read more …

Garmin Boating V.22.0

Garmin Boating V.22.0

It is now effective, with the latest update powered on September 27 th, Navionics Boating app becomes Garmin Boating. The Navionics® brand is now only about charting, but for how long ? However, it would seem risky to Read more …

Navionics Boating : Garmin updates charts and pricing… on the rise !

As you might expect, Garmin cleaned up the offer and pricing of Navionics Boating charts at the beginning of the year 2024. No more large areas (like the Mediterranean) up to 35 € ! Several zones are redefined and the Read more …

UKHO delays removal of Admiralty paper charts

L’UKHO diffère la suppression des cartes marines papier de l’Amirauté

British backpedaling : UKHO postpones phasing out of Admiralty paper charts until at least 2030 ! Six months after setting the goal of 2026 for the complete withdrawal from production of all paper navigation charts (¹), Read more …

Announced end of UKHO paper nautical charts

Fin annoncée des cartes marines papier de l’UKHO

After NOAA (¹) and the SHOM (²), United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has just announced its intention to take steps to phase out the production of the world's nautical paper charts by the end of 2026 in order to Read more …

C-Map plays the ping-pong ball of industrial groups

C-Map fait la balle de ping-pong des groupes industriels

An event that occurred last summer escaped the vigilance that I try to maintain on the nautical economy. Fortunately my friends from Geogarage have just filled this gap. In the field of private electronic cartography, the actors Read more …

SHOM removes facsimiles from UK charts

Le SHOM supprime les fac-similés des cartes britanniques

With the latest update of the SHOM card portfolio on 16 th 2021, Geogarage announces the removal of 18 facsimile charts from British charts covering, mostly, the south coast of England and Gibraltar. These areas are now only covered Read more …

The S-100 standard for ENC charts is quickly evolving [Update]

in May 1992, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) had adopted a standard aimed at defining the specifications of electronic charts, the ENCs, used by ships, as well as the devices that display them, called ECDIS. This standard was Read more …

Electronic maps and updates… be prudent !

Over the last few years, I have expressed myself several times on the quality and reliability levels of the electronic charts we use in yachting., more particularly with the navigation applications of our mobile devices (¹). Since Read more …

Weather4D Routing & Navigation supports Imray charts

With the delivery yesterday of the version 2.0.54, Weather4D adds Imray maps (¹) to the Routing version & Navigation, recently available in the Geogarage catalog. Five layers cover the Atlantic facade (²) , of the North Sea and the Shetlands Read more …

Smart navigation – From paper charts to augmented reality

I relay here, in French, an article published in the British magazine Yachting Monthly (¹) the 30 th. The subject deals with the debate between paper charts and electronic navigation, by stating many truths, but also sometimes one or two Read more …

Geogarage to introduce ENC charts for Weather4D

Geogarage, the mapping platform of raster charts derived from official services, today introduced two ENC-S57 rasterized charts layers for Weather4D Routing & Navigation, covering Spain and Croatia. The recent update June, 12 June of Read more …

Are electronic charts prescribed in France ? [Update]

This question comes up 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 (of boaters) by providing a collective response.

Navionics Boating mutating

Since Garmin has acquired Navionics (¹), it will not take more than a year for Navionics also make its small (r)evolution in its flagship iOS and Android application . New logo, renouncing the multiplicity of applications, abandon Read more …

Fugawi charts service is discontinued [Update]

It's official, the 30 November 2018, Johnson Outdoors, recent buyer of Fugawi (*), decided to put an end to its activities. After discontinuing the distribution of their PC navigation software in August 2017, to have Read more …

Reading : "Beaufort, l’amiral du vent" by Raymond Reding

Lecture : « Beaufort, l’amiral du vent » de Raymond Reding

It's been a long time since I've written a book report in this section.... Lack of time, or lack of discovery ? I once again found real literary enthusiasm after reading this excellent work by Read more …

The stakeholders of electronic charting [Update-2]

Les acteurs de la cartographie électronique [MAJ-2]

In April 2010 I published a post with the aim of situating the main players in electronic cartography. Time passing, this information should be refreshed, due to recent business movements. Some have disappeared, like Maptech, plus Read more …

Digital nautical charts : purchase or subscription [Update] ?

[Update 3 mars 2019] With the multiple charts disappearances during the successive updates of iNavX, I received a number of requests for assistance in the recovery of the said charts. Regardless of the fact that I am not Read more …

The new division of the NV Charts

I presented in May 2015 the excellent NV Charts raster maps from the German publisher NV Verlag. In 2016, the previous cutting in 4 areas for France - Channel and Atlantic coasts - has been split into 8 areas Read more …

C-Map back to Europe

C-Map revient en Europe

Yachtmen my friends, do you know Altor ? Of course not, don't look for, me either until this morning. Altor is an investor in Northern Europe that presents itself as : “Altor is a family of private investment funds focused Read more …

Does Navionics charting become dangerous [Update] ?

Since the start of the navigation season, many boaters have found an increasing number of errors on Navionics charts, following recent updates, all media. All over Europe, Germany, Baltic States, Read more …

Reading : 'Electronic charting' HS48 Voiles et Voiliers

Lecture : « Cartographie électronique » HS48 Voiles et Voiliers

Since end 2012 I found no more of maritime books causing me the overwhelming desire to share, like a few novels described in this topic 'Reading'. Today this feeling comes back to me, in a completely different vein, up to Read more …

Raster Charts… the comeback [Update]

Cartographie Raster… le grand retour [MAJ]

[Update 26 August 2018] I have been an ardent supporter of vector maps for several years.. Compact, of low numerical weight, easy to update, they are perfectly suited to use on our mobile devices. According to the good old Read more …

Electronic charts : scales and overscale [Update]

A recent email exchange with a Mediterranean user drew my attention to a specific aspect of electronic charting : zoom limitation of a chart. ENC vector charts (¹) are classified in 6 categories based Read more …

Navionics Boating : Italian at the top of business [Update]

How make the new with the old ? Navionics knows it ! After publishing geographic areas including a navigation application, here is now an application, but without charting. Italian are too much ! Navionics Boating completes, from Read more …

Charting, the game of 7 errors

A recent thread on the Hisse et Oh forum, I salute by the way, I challenged the accuracy of the chart data provided on the electronic charts. The subject concerns the observation that, in some location, Read more …

Paper marine charts to disappear, revolution or ineluctable evolution? ?

In its newsletter of 22 October 2013, l’Office of Coast Survey, Department of NOAA (*) responsible for the production of nautical charts of the U.S.A., announces the end of the printing paper charts. This announcement had the effect of a bomb Read more …

Charting compared, a mixed result

Three weeks and 600 nautical miles of sailing between the mainland and the Balearic Islands have allowed me to test in live some of iPad maritime applications we have. Warning : there is no question of me making a comparison Read more …

Imray Marine 2.0

On September 7 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 Channel maps are always provided as standard for Read more …

Free ENC river charts for use with MacENC

As part of its policy aimed at offering users an ever more efficient and safe waterway, the public establishment Voies Navigables de France has launched into the production of electronic maps of inland navigation on different axes of Read more …

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 ∙ Read more …

iSailor : Transas maps on iPhone and iPad

In France, mariners know little, or not at all, about Transas company of Russian origin. The Transas Group is nevertheless one of the world's leading professional of navigation software . Founded in 1990 in St Petersburgh, she opens her first office Read more …

Visit the bottom of the oceans

NOAA has released a superb digital animation of seafloor mapping. A few thousand feet below our keel, this fantastic landscape leaves you dreaming. I can't help but relay it to you with the Read more …

About Marine Charting

De la cartographie maritime

Christmas is coming and, whether the celebration is religious or pagan, so traditional gifts. You've no doubt guessed my passion for marine charting, but before electronic charts, I have a particular attachment to cards Read more …

View the currents on electronic charts ?

I deliberately title this article in the form of a question. Many users, all countries included, want the visualization of currents in Richard Ray's applications. Indeed, there is no display function of the currents in GPSNavX, Read more …

Navionics Mobile and Community Sharing

Once will not hurt, I relay in French information from the Panbo blog which can only be of interest to users of Apple mobile devices. User Generated Content community sharing (User-generated content) Social Mapping ou Social Charting (Charting Read more …

The stakeholders of electronic charting

Navionics charts, C-Map charts, BlueChart, MapMedia… You will admit that we have difficulty finding our way in all these brands of electronic cartography. Who belongs to whom ? What works with what ? To help you see things more clearly, I took a Read more …

Print charts with GPSNavX / MacENC

These two applications offer direct printing of screen content. It is very convenient to print a chart, regardless of the scale used on the screen. Indeed, Print this concerns only the chart content visible on screen, Read more …

ENC User Permit, what is ?

The "user permit" of ENC charts is a unique identifying number attached to a device, or to an application, able to read encrypted ENC chart data (format S-63). This “User Permit” is required to register a system (drive Read more …

Navionics does not know the crisis…

Many users wonder about the redundancy of Navionics charts. Examples : “I bought an SD-Card (or a CF-Card) with a Navionics region for my chartplotter, but I can't use it with my Mac. Why do I have to pay Read more …

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