iNavX

With the latest version 5.6.35 from February the 25 th last September, iNavX integrates the Imray mapping offered by its supplier SiiTech (¹). NavX Studios does not hesitate to announce in its communication : As the leading publisher of nautical information for leisure sailors, Read more …

After the end of the contract which allowed iNavX to benefit from all Navionics maps since its origin (¹), and after several hazardous attempts to integrate C-Map maps, NavX Studios LLC finally contracts with the Canadian company Read more …

What I've been planning for a while has finally happened. : iNavX lost Navionics mapping ! 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, recent buyer of Fugawi (*), decided to put an end to its activities. After discontinuing the distribution of their PC navigation software in August 2017, to have Read more …

With the latest version 5.2 of iNavX, AIS reception service by internet becomes charge. Ce service, provided by the company SiiTech free of charge since the origin of iNavX (¹), becomes a subscription service.

[Update 3 mars 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 the fact that I am not Read more …

[Update] Following 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, was unfortunately a long and painful labor for new developers, and a succession of whirlpools and reefs for users. Among the many bugs and regressions Read more …

In recent years, websites allowing the visualization of maritime traffic have developed on the web.. They continuously transmit via the internet the positions received from the ships' AIS transmitters, received by reception bases on land, Read more …

New developers, new logo, new splash page, and new website. The version 4.7.0 has just been released 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 presented the SHOM raster maps offered by different publishers on iPad. For several weeks, the German nautical chart publisher NV Verlag has been offering two new zones completing coverage of the coasts of France Atlantique and Read more …

The year 2015 barely started, the developers are already giving us the developments of their applications, probably made between two glasses of champagne during the holidays. I consider iNavX and iSailor to be the two best navigation apps 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, cut off from any cellular or terrestrial Wi-Fi network. 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 : the 50XG covering almost the entire Pacific Ocean.

The latest version of the iOS operating system for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch have caused their share of compatibility updates. This time, with iOS7, the developers had their work cut out 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 me making 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 offers display of high resolution GRIB weather files from theyr.com. This English site from the company Kona Ltd is the developer of the GribView application which I talked about 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, who testifies in a very didactic way of his experience Read more …

The company ShipModul has just presented its brand new WiFi multiplexer on its site, 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 certain anchorages. These places are marked on charts by the symbol shown against. This data is called in English “Navaids” when Read more …

Good surprise during the ARC transatlantic 2011. After transferring photos from my device to my iPad, for an unknown reason the storage memory was full. However, I had 9 GB free and I did not Read more …

Richard Ray informs us : I noticed after the iOS update 5 that all my maps downloaded in iNavX were gone. This happened because the iOS update 5 requires a complete restoration of the device 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 function was frequently criticized as impractical.. iNavX 3.3.0 corrects this defect with a particularly improved Read more …

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

Bad news : changes in the price of Navionics maps for iNavX on iPad have appeared on the site x-traverse.com, and unfortunately for the regions that directly concern us : The 46XG Europe and 43XG Mediterranean folios (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 his crossing last month. Just to dream a little, and to convince the last recalcitrants Read more …

Since the beginning of the year 2011, not less than six iNavX updates were made by Rich Ray, either one monthly ! If we don't find anything revolutionary there, many “invisible” improvements have been made, Read more …

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

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

During a somewhat sad weekend in January, 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. Welcomed by two Read more …

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

I explained, in a recent post, how to receive NMEA data from on-board instruments without using a Mac (or a PC) on board. It is now possible to do the same thing for receiving AIS data with 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 size Read more …

You are probably aware that the release of the new iOS4 operating system for iPhone and iPod Touch will be available today during the day, via synchronization of your (s) devices with iTunes. For the iPad, Read more …

With iPad 3G finally in hands, equipped with iNavX and (beta) version of AyeTides XL currently undergoing 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, although criticized by some purists (of which I am part), was implemented Read more …

It's impossible not to join in the concert of comments on the iPad that Apple presented yesterday. As far as we are concerned, for us yachtsmen, this new touchscreen tablet seems to represent nothing other than an iPod Touch with screen Read more …

Following my article from 8 November 2009 the accuracy of couple iNavX / iPhone, I tried to explore the subject, and I deliver to you the fruit of my investigations. Be careful it might be long ! The integrated GPS chipset Read more …

Many wonder about the accuracy of the GPS built into the iPhone, and therefore on the reliability of iNavX. So I did a little comparison, staging : A MacBook with MacENC + GPS antenna BU-353 A Read more …