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Updating card catalogs at Geogarage for NavimetriX, Weather4D Routage & Navigation, SailGrib WR :
165 ENC cards (IHM) rasterized, dont 5 new charts, out of a total of 335 charts.
129 ENC cards (NLHO) rasterized, dont 3 new charts, out of a total of 138 charts.
237 ENC cards (BSH) rasterized, dont 10 new charts, out of a total of 317 charts.
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Catalog update SHOM charts France / DOM-TOM and dependencies by Geogarage for NavimetriX, Weather4D Routage & Navigation, SailGrib WR
The catalog includes 866 charts (1432 with the inserts)
All international cards have been removed and will not be replaced by SHOM (See the information of the GeoGarage blog). However, they continue to be present in the database (but will no longer be updated from their last version).
Update of the British charts catalogue from UKHO for Weather4D Routage & Navigation, SailGrib WR and NavimetriX by Geogarage.
In total the UKHO catalog includes 885 charts (1635 with insets)
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Catalog update SHOM charts France / DOM-TOM and dependencies by Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR
The catalog includes 865 charts (1431 with the inserts)
All international cards have been removed and will not be replaced by SHOM (See the information of the GeoGarage blog). However, they continue to be present in the database (but will no longer be updated from their last version).
Not even a year after announcing the end of production of its famous nautical charts (¹), Imray is back with a new partner. English publishers Imray and Austrian freytag & berndt consider the creation of a joint company to ensure the future of marine charts (²).
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Earth's magnetic north pole is rapidly moving away from the Canadian Arctic towards Siberia. NCEI scientists (¹) updated the global magnetic model (WMM) 2025.
The position of the geomagnetic North Pole is 80.8°N in latitude and 138.6° E in longitude
Replacing the Raster Map Catalog with the NHS ENC charts by Geogarage rasterized for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
The catalog includes 107 tiled raster maps from ENCs.
Catalog update of raster maps from the NLHO for the Netherlands by Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR. There are also maps of the managed Caribbean islands by NLHO.
The catalog includes 136 tiled raster maps from ENCs.
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The end of an era !After more than 200 years spent guiding sailors, Imray will begin to gradually cease its nautical chart publishing activities, thus marking the end of an era. This difficult decision reflects the shift to digital navigation, But we are not leaving.
Card production and support, including Imray's Notices to Mariners, will continue until the 2025. Afterlife, No new editions will be published. ”
With the latest version 5.6.35 from February the 25 th last September, iNavX integrates Imray 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, Imray joins iNavX, making us the first mobile navigation platform to offer and support these trusted charts..”