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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 to 50 € for the most part, with two exceptions. Read more …
First appeared at the end of June 2023, The Bloc Marine app, edited by Meteo Consult / Le Figaro Nautisme, has replaced the Guide Escales (¹), previously removed from the Apple Store. This last application had been far from unanimous following a catastrophic pricing policy over the course of successive updates (²). Read more …
Since the arrival of the ARM-based Mac (M1… M3…) and the system macOS 11 Big Sur, Weather4D Routing & Navigation runs natively on our favorite computers (¹). But this happy event was not going to, since then, without a few small restrictions. The most annoying one for users was, to date, loss of distance calculation. This is done on touch devices by a two-finger long press, there was no function to translate this gesture on Mac. The mouse has only one pointer, not two ! Read more …
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 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 …
Update version 1.24
Available for iOS/iPadOS / Android / Windows. Incessantly for macOS.
Warning : It is imperative to update the app. Older versions will stop working January 1 2024.
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After the end of the contract that allowed iNavX to benefit from the beginning all the Navionics charts (¹), and after several unsuccessful attempts to include C-Map charts, NavX Studios LLC eventually contracted with the Canadian company SiiTech Inc. to provide iNavX with a charting gradually covering the world. Read more …
Updated 2.0.87 application Weather4D Routing & Navigation :
The new cards derived from the ENCs are available for subscription at Geogarage. The ENC Germany file includes general maps of the entire Baltic Sea, but without the details outside the German shores.
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Boaters and water sports enthusiasts now have two applications to help them better understand and protect the increasingly fragile marine environment.. Nav&Co is an initiative 100% public composed of SHOM, of the OFB (French Office for Biodiversity), of the Secretary of State for the Sea and the DGAMPA, with co-financing from the European Union. DONIA (*) is a private initiative of the company Andromeda Oceanology which received support from the Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse Water Agency. If DONIA is dedicated mainly to the western Mediterranean basin, Nav&Co currently covers all metropolitan France, Corsica and Guadeloupe. Read more …
Boaters and water sports enthusiasts now have two applications to help them better understand and protect the increasingly fragile marine environment.. DONIA is a private initiative of the company Andromeda Oceanology which received support from the Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse Water Agency. Nav&Co (*) is an initiative 100% public composed of SHOM, of the OFB (French Office for Biodiversity), of the Secretary of State for the Sea and the DGAMPA, with co-financing from the European Union. If DONIA is dedicated mainly to the western Mediterranean basin, Nav&Co currently covers all metropolitan France, Corsica and Guadeloupe. Read more …
Nobeltec, Inc., subsidiary of MaxSea International, is a leading developer of PC marine navigation software and a supplier of electronic nautical navigation charts. This company is the official developer of TZ iBoat on Apple Store. After several weeks of beta-testing, version 3.0 has just gone online.
A revolution is taking place in the world of maritime cartography... Never seen before ! » TimeZero announcement.