You know all the good things I think about this excellent application. Unfortunately, many users did not understand that the “Free” download was intended solely to allow testing of the application before subscribing to the data.. This misunderstanding caused dissatisfaction and the developer took it into account.
Since the last update, access to all tide stations is free for the current day :
The subscription offer remains unchanged, but users who only need to know the tide of the day (Shellfish gathering, ballad, etc,…) no longer need to subscribe to it. This is an excellent initiative that shows that the developer is listening to dissatisfied users.
At the same time, It adds a feature for recreational sailors that allows you to enter the draft of your boat. In water level searches, calculations take this parameter into account and display an alert when there is not enough water left under the keel.
Following your last article on this application, I loaded and tested this one.
Well I am removing a previous comment made on your site. Until now, I used the paid versions of TidesPlanner for the France zones – Netherlands – Belgium.
I notice that the tide times of my previous application are really not reliable compared to the data of the Shom de Marée Info. Ex Today for my port of reference
=> PM 4:55pm 6.6M BM 11:53pm 2.35 M on Tide Info
=> PM 4:20 pm 6.6M BM 00:00 am 2.3 M on TidesPlanner
It seems that for the MP there are significant discrepancies in a systematic way. Today anyway 30 Minutes.
The season will end soon. For me after the start of the Jacques Vabre. I would therefore migrate to Marée Info, paid version for the season 2014. For the moment the day option will be enough for me until mid-November.
Will this app then cover other regions? ??
Bonjour,
To respond @Fullhaya about coverage in other regions, I made a request to SHOM to be able to propose the predictions of ports close to France (Belgium, Anglo-Norman in particular). Something that is not possible at the moment because foreign ports are not in the catalog for publishers. To be continued.
As for the accuracy of the predictions, There are indeed big differences with some other software. Both on the hours and heights of high tide and low tide (which is quickly visible) but also on intermediate stocks (cf. tide gauge and calculation).
Glad marée.info helpful.
Guillaume – tide.info