iNavX

After the end of the contract that allowed iNavX to benefit from all Navionics charts from its inception (¹), and after several haphazard attempts to integrate C-Map maps, NavX Studios LLC eventually contracted with the Canadian company Read more …

What I had been planning for a long time has finally happened : iNavX lost Navionics cartography ! It seemed obvious that the historic contract which allowed iNavX to have privileged access to cartography Read more …

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

With the latest release 5.2 of iNavX, AIS reception service by internet becomes charge. This service, provided by SiiTech society free from the origin of iNavX (¹), becomes a subscription service.

[Update 3 March 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 whether I am Read more …

[Update] As a result of the update 5.0.6 the charts were again no more reachable. A release 5.0.7 delivered in the night of May 15 until 16 has solved the problem. But alas, le site web Fugawi/Chart a Read more …

The major update 5.0 of iNavX, issued late August, has unfortunately been a long and painful birth for new developers, and a succession of vortices and reefs for users. Among the numerous bugs and regressions Read more …

For some years websites for viewing marine traffic grew on the web. They transmit continuously via the internet the positions received from the AIS transmitters of the ships, captured by shore-based reception bases, Read more …

New developers, new logo, new splash page, and new web site. Version 4.7.0 just be issued by NavX Studios LLC, the company that bought all of Richard Ray's computer creations : GPSNavX, MacENC and iNavX. Read more …

In a previous post I introduced the SHOM raster maps proposed by different publishers on iPad. In recent weeks the German charts editor NV Verlag offers two new zones ending coverage and Atlantic coasts of France Read more …

The year 2015 barely begun, developers already deliver us their applications developments, probably developed between two glasses of champagne during the holidays. I consider iNavX and iSailor as the two best navigation applications to date Read more …

With iNavX, with iPhone like iPad, charts update goes through two processes. It is necessary to distinguish individual charts update, and update full charts folders with a new edition.

For those who do are not yet fully convinced, despite my assertions in many posts (¹), Here's another example of the accuracy of iPad GPS, Cup of any terrestrial cellular network or Wi - fi. Already lived in 2011 Read more …

iNavX 4.0.0 greatly improves the display of raster charts : continuous seamless tiled charts (¹) and access to a new Navionics Gold chart : 50XG covering almost the entire Pacific Ocean.

The latest version of iOS for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch has caused a lot of updates to compatibility. This time, with iOS7, developers have had the work ahead to put their interfaces Read more …

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 giving myself to a comparison Read more …

The relationship of a recent experience of an iNavX user and Weather4D PRO routing function invites me to bring a warning to the attention of novices boaters in computer use. A regatta course, starting Read more …

Since version 3.6.1 iNavX display provides GRIB weather files, high-resolution theyr.com. This site English society Kona Ltd is the developer of the application GribView I mentioned in a previous post (¹). An account Read more …

After Jean Debèze, avid supporter of Navigation Mac, made me the pleasure of a detailed tutorial about installing a multiplexer aboard his sailboat, here's a ticket by Jacques Vermeulen, reflecting very didactic way to experience Read more …

The company has just introduced ShipModul on its website its new wireless multiplexer, Miniplex-2Wi. The Miniples-2Wi only regards boats owners with NMEA 0183 and/or RAYMARINE SeaTalk instruments. For boats with NMEA 2000, Read more …

Navionics vector charts contain a number of detailed information for each marina, and sometimes some moorings. These places are marked on charts by the symbol shown against. These data are called in English "Navaids" when Read more …

Pleasant surprise in the ARC transatlantic 2011. After transferring pictures from my camera to my iPad, for some reason the memory was saturated. However, I had 9GB free and I did not have Read more …

Richard Ray tells us : I noticed after updating iOS 5 all my downloaded maps in iNavX disappeared. This occurred because the iOS update 5 requires a full device restore Read more …

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iNavX offers for a while an "anchor alarm" feature, currently available at the bottom of the application Home page. This feature was frequently criticized as impractical. iNavX 3.3.0 corrects this defect by an improvement particularly Read more …

For a while Rich Ray was asked to add a feature button "Man overboard" in its applications. Recently, following a new application on the site macsailing.net, he motivated his refusal by Read more …

Bad news : changes in the price of Navionics charts for iNavX iPad appeared on the site x-traverse.com, and unfortunately for regions that concern us directly : Folios 46XG 43XG Mediterranean and Europe (replacing the old Read more …

After my first post Crossing the Atlantic with an iPad here are some screenshots provided by Christophe Mahé between Panama and the Marquesas Islands, during its passage last month. Dream a little history, and convince the remaining recalcitrant Read more …

Since the beginning of the year 2011, not less than six iNavX updates were made by Rich Ray, either one monthly ! If there is nothing revolutionary, many "invisible" improvements have been made, Read more …

iNavX can connect, since version 3.1.7 from February the 11 October 2010, AIS data to the server SiiTech I mentioned in a previous post (¹). The advantage of this service remained questionable in France because of the low Read more …

It is now possible to connect a N2K system (¹) to iNavX, on iPhone or iPad. Indeed, Actisense company, well known for its NMEA interfaces (multiplexers and gateways), designed the NGW-1 ISO, a data converter Read more …

During a weekend of January a little sad, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide. We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself. Greeted by two Read more …

I cannot resist the urge to show you some pics (*) iNavX of an iPad just crossed the Atlantic, from Mediterranean to Martinique. The sailor has abandoned his MacBook Air, which it uses MacENC Read more …

I explained, in a recent post, on receiving NMEA data from instruments on board without going through a Mac (or PC) aboard. It is now possible to do the same for the reception of AIS data with Read more …

With versions 3.1.6 and 3.1.7, iNavX improved GRIB files request by proposing a new window settings. As MacENC, can now choose several settings for required files, in order to optimize the size Read more …

You are aware that the posting of the new operating system iOS4 for iPhone and iPod Touch will be available today in the course of the day, through synchronization of your (s) Devices with iTunes. For iPad, Read more …

With iPad 3G finally in hands, iNavX equipped and (beta) XL version AyeTides during beta testing, I'm going to give you my first impression, previously to perform an extended test at sea. Read more …

INavX 3.0.2, available soon on the AppStore, comes with a much anticipated feature and welcome improvements : Course Up / North up This function, though criticized by some purists (I am), has been implemented Read more …

Can not join the chorus of comments on the Apple iPad presented yesterday. For our purposes, for us yachtsmen, this new touch pad does not seem to represent anything other than an iPod Touch with screen Read more …

Following my article 8 November 2009 the accuracy of couple iNavX / iPhone, I tried to explore the subject, and I give you the result of my investigations. Warning it may take time ! The integrated GPS chipset Read more …

Many questioned the accuracy of GPS to the iPhone, and therefore the reliability of iNavX. So I delivered a quick comparative, featuring : A MacBook with MacENC + GPS antenna BU-353 One Read more …