Bátar, What is ? This is the word "boat" in Icelandic. It is true that pronounced in French, it sounds a bit weird, but we quickly forget ! And why talk about it ? Because Weather4D has given its support to this surprising collective that has decided to revive the great tradition of the Vikings and their maritime expeditions. Toulouse citizen as the members of Bátar, Olivier Bouyssou was seduced by their project and the energy they have devoted to it for ten years. And since they already use its application to navigate the connection became obvious.. Read more …
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The European Union is moving towards Open Data
Europe is moving forward in small steps, but it moves forward… Towards open access to data from public services ! The 21 December 2022 was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, under reference C/2022/9562, the " Implementing Regulations of the European Commission establishing a list of specific high-value datasets and how they will be published and reused". Read more …
A new Expert Guide published by Voiles & Voiliers
Navigating with a Digital Tablet and a Smartphone has just been published by Éditions Voiles & Voiliers, Available in bookstores and specialty stores, Since the shop Voiles et Voiliers, on FNAC Books up to Amazon.
A digital version is online at Apple Books Store and also for Kindle.
- Tablets and smartphones : Choosing the right device and essential accessories on board.
- Navigation applications : Review and detailed description according to your navigation types, by the day, Coast, or offshore.
- Integration From mobile devices to on-board instruments : understand and implement.
A pedagogical step-by-step of 128 Pages to update yourself with the latest developments and equip yourself today wisely (19,90 € paper version, 19,99 € sur Apple Books Store). Read more …
Inflation does not spare yachting
Everything increases ! The 5 Apple has made the decision of an overall increase of its App Store pricing list about near 20%. So this applies to apps and some in-app purchases., such as services provided by the developers themselves, including cartography. This doesn't seem to be about auto-renewing subscription in-app purchases, like the "Navionics Plus" option in Boating, in example. Read more …
COLREGS: Still Fit for Purpose ? [Update]
We can only observe, for three decades, the phenomenal increase in global maritime commercial traffic, the recent increase in maritime drones, for scientific and various research purposes, automated and remotely submarines civilian, military, and even for traffickers usage, and soon the inevitable coming into service of fully unmanneded merchant ships. This evolution is directly linked to the multiplication of satellites communication and positioning means allowing remote control of mobiles at sea.
Even with containment during the Covid-19 pandemic, maritime traffic never stops. Marine Traffic view
Cyber attacks and boating
Garmin was the victim of a cyber attack that started on 23 last July and lasted several days. The resulting outage disrupted many of its online services.
Navionics customers could no longer access the Navionics server through their login credentials. L’application Navionics Boating, the chart installer and the Navionics chart viewer were all impacted. products could no longer be purchased directly from the Navionics website. Chartplotters could still be used as stand-alone devices during this Garmin failure, but the maps could no longer be downloaded or updated. Read more …
Smart navigation – From paper charts to augmented reality
I relayed 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 untruths. The purpose has the merit of presenting contrasting arguments, and to obtain the opinion of recognized UK's professional boaters. Since the confinement imposes time constraints on us, let's take this opportunity to enjoy this instructive reading.… Read more …
Navigation Mac is 10 years ago !
Launched at the same time as the iPhone 3GS and iNavX app, and a few months before the first iPad, This blog follows since 10 years the continued growth of mobile devices used in maritime navigation.
Through more 350 articles, I tried to guide users throughout the evolution of materials and navigation applications dedicated to Apple mobile. Read more …
Hurricane Harvey, What is the impact of climate change ?
In full political news on global climate change, the terrible Hurricane Harvey questioned some scientists about the link between warming due to human activities and intense weather events increasing in recent years.
Source : National Weather Service
Michael E. Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center and author of three books, including The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars, Dire Predictions, and The Madhouse Effect, develops a long comment in theguardian.com (¹) about it, freely translated by myself.
Météo-France GRIB files finally for free
A year after my advocacy for free European data (¹) Météo-France finally offers free access to its two famous ARPEGE and AROME models. A welcome development, initiated in 2014 by the success of MyOcean, Since then integrated into Mercator Ocean (²), but a notorious change in attitude for a public institution to which always asked to self-finance a significant portion of its budget. Forecasts from these two models are made available on Météo-France portal in the GRIB version 2 format. Since the 21 July 2015.