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Garmin Boating V.22.0

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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 delete such a well-known trademark ! And as users have been able to see : A new logo has been imposed to clearly identify the owner of the application. Read more …

Weather4D Routing&Navigation User Guides 2.0.92 -New charts update

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As part of the gradual conversion of raster charts to vector charts ENC (¹) on the platform Geogarage, Weather4D Routing & Navigation now includes the following ENC catalogs :

  • Portugal (derived from the productions of the Portuguese Hydrographic Service – IH)
  • Poland (derived from the productions of the Polish Hydrographic Service – HOPN)
  • Australia (derived from the productions of the Australian Hydrographic Service – AHO)

These ENC catalogs are added to the previous ones already available (Spain, Croatia, Germany, Netherland). Others are under negotiation such as Greece and Sweden.

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(¹) Geogarage to introduce ENC charts for Weather4D
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Weather4D renews its GRIB model offering

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Latest releases Lite, Routing, Routing & Navigation arrive with a full renewed list of weather and ocean models in order to allow users to benefit from the evolution of the offer of international forecasting models. At the same time, all GRIB files go to format GRIB-2, this allows for a reduction in their size and a better compression ratio. Read more …

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

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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 subscription prices are aligned uniformly with 50 € for most, with two exceptions. Read more …

Weather4D R&N and distance calculations

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Since the arrival of ARM-based Mac (M1… M3…) and the system macOS 11 Big Sur, Weather4D Routing & Navigation works natively on our favorite computers (¹). But this happy event did not go, since then, without some small restrictions. The most annoying for users was, until this day, loss of distance calculation. This is carried out on touch devices by a two-finger long press, no function allowed the translation of this gesture on Mac. The mouse only has one pointer, not two ! Read more …

MacENCx64 finally offers global charting

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Since taking over MacENC at the end of the year 2020, become MacENCx64 (¹), it took three painstaking years for the company NavStation LLC to finalize the implementation of a global charting. Since January 1 2024 it is now done. A long negotiation with the ENC charting distributor ChartWorld (²) has enabled the creation of a range of vector charts in ENC S-57/S-63 format (³) as in-app purchase. Read more …

eSail4VR V.1.24 Update

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Update version 1.24

  • Export of routings in GPX format from the route board.
  • Showing the scale on the map.
  • Full WES racing support (weekend elite series).
  • Increment of 1° in order editing (instead of 0.1°).
  • Taking into account future restriction zones.

Available for iOS/iPadOS / Android / Windows. Coming soon for macOS.

Warning : It is imperative to update the application. Older versions will stop working January 1st 2024.

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Weather4D Routing Update & Navigation

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Updated 2.0.87 de l’application Weather4D Routing & Navigation :

  • Correction affichage cartes OSM
  • Ajout cartographies ENC Germany (BSH) and ENC Pays-BAS (NLHO)
  • Corrections mineures

Les nouvelles cartes dérivées des ENC sont disponibles à la souscription chez Geogarage. Le dossier ENC Germany comprend les cartes générales de toute la Mer Baltique, mais sans les détails hors des côtes allemandes.

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