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Two months after out for iPhone, Weather4D (¹), by surprising Olivier Bouyssou, arrives with a version fully optimized for iPad, with the modest release number 1.1.
This single iPhone/iPad version is therefore a simple free update for the lucky buyers of the version 1.0.
And yet, what work it took to adapt and optimize this 3D application, both iPhone screens and memory capacities 3 and 4 than those of iPads 1 and 2, known to be very different ! Read more …
Disturbances are not just atmospheric, it happens that they are also in the transmission of GRIB files !
Some of you alert me for two or three days about difficulties to receive files, or the absence of data displayed in iNavX.
After checking in requesting last night from my iPad, I was forced to note, once a file loaded after long minutes of waiting, that the data were not displayed on the chart. By checking the GRIB display with MacENC, only the wind vectors appeared, but not the contours. So I contacted by myself Richard Ray who, thanks to jet lag, was able to react immediately. Read more …
With the versions 3.1.6 and 3.1.7, iNavX improved GRIB files request by proposing a new window settings.
As for MacENC, can now choose several settings for required files, in order to optimize the file size according to the navigation area. Read more …
The menu Weather in these two applications allows you to request a GRIB weather forecast file and then view it on the open map. The function Request GRIB send a request to the server Saildocs.com returning to the mailbox file requested. You can then get the file in attachment and store it to the location of your choice (²).
The function Show GRIB will then allow you to view the file on the map and scroll through the forecasts. You can usefully refer to MacENC Video Tutorial No. 3 on the website.
Here is a short technical summary of the weather module integrated in these two apps. Read more …
In a previous post about my favorites apps for iPhone, I cited two weather apps : La Chaine Météo, very good general weather application from Meteo Consult, and iSailing Weather that offers maps of sea-based weather GRIB files from British origin.
Weather France has finally added its own free app, offering its full range of forecasts, including marine weather reports in text format. Read more …
Marine weather, or rather I should write : Marine Weather, with capital letters, is for modern mariners as ancient gods was for our oldest ancestors : a permanent reference to the conduct of our life.
Not so long ago, this divinity was speaking to us, sailors to trade, fishermen or boaters, by a celestial voice carried by the waves. Our high priestess, Marie-Pierre Planchon, informing us twice a day of the destinies, happy or terrible, that we risked experiencing by venturing out on the waves. In those days the weather had a name and a voice, recognizable at a glance. Read more …