It's official, the 30 November 2018, Johnson Outdoors, recent purchaser of Fugawi (*), decided to put an end to its activities. After discontinuing the distribution of their PC navigation software in August 2017, having closed the online nautical equipment sales store last spring, it is the turn of the download charts server to disappear. Read more …
Label : cartography
Reading : "Beaufort, l’amiral du vent" by Raymond Reding
It's a long time since I had made a reading note in this category. Lack of time, or lack of discovery ? I once again found a real literary enthusiasm when I read this excellent book by Raymond Reding : " Beaufort, The Admiral of the Wind ”.
Like any sailor that complies, I know the Beaufort scale since my first legs in sailing school, but, shame on me, I had never tried to find out more about this famous Francis Beaufort ! Raymond Reding, went like me through Les Glénans Sailing school, finally fills this lamentable lacuna with the greatest happiness. Read more …
The stakeholders of electronic charting [Update-2]
In April 2010 I published a ticket to locate the main actors of the electronic charting. Time passing, this information should be refreshed, due to recent business movements. Some have disappeared, as Maptech, more recently Fugawi, others have changed hands, an update is necessary.
Thunderbolt this 27 October 2017, Navionics charts was acquired by Garmin (¹) ! The last private publisher to remain independent, until today in the hand of the Italian founder Giuseppe Carnevali, passes into the portfolio of the multinational company Garmin, shortly after the purchase of the global database Active Captain. The cards are redistributed once again…
Digital nautical charts : purchase or subscription [Update] ?
[Update 3 th 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 supporting NavX Studios LLC (iNavX) (¹), a focus is needed on the method of charts provision by distributors for our mobile applications.
The new division of the NV Charts
I had presented in May 2015 the excellent raster charts NV Charts by the German Publisher NV Verlag. In 2016, the previous cutting in 4 areas for France - Channel and Atlantic coasts - has been split into 8 areas for 49,90$ apiece. It should be noted that each year a new edition replaces the previous one, there is no update.
Bounderies in 2015
C-Map back to Europe
Yachtmen my friends, do you know Altor ? Of course not, don't look for, me either until this morning. Altor est un investisseur du nord de l’Europe qui se présente ainsi :
“Altor est une famille de fonds d’investissement privés focused on investing in and developing and medium sized companies with’a Nordic origin. We want to create valeurs durables and make a real difference en tant que a valuable partner pour les propriétaires et les gestionnaires in buiding to world class companies. Nous travaillons avec a Nordic team with une vaste expérience internationale in fields such as private equity, consulting, investment banking and various industrial sectors."
Mais pourquoi donc en parler ? Read more …
Does Navionics charting become dangerous [Update] ?
Since the start of the navigation season, many boaters have found an increasing number of errors on Navionics charts, following recent updates, all media. All over Europe, Germany, Baltic States, French coasts of the Channel and until Spain, appeared non-existent channels and erroneous soundings, missing soundings, Missing information, Conflicting bathymetric information depending on zoom levels, and so on. Most importantly, these findings are made by long-time regular users of Navionics charting, experienced sailors.
[Corrective update 26 August 2015]
[October Corrigendum Update 2 2015] See end of entry. Read more …
Reading : 'Electronic charting' HS48 Voiles et Voiliers
Since end 2012 I found no more of maritime books causing me the overwhelming desire to share, Like the few novels described in this section " Reading ”. Today this feeling comes back to me, in a completely different vein, on reading the excellent Special issue n° 48 of Voiles et Voiliers : " Understand and use electronic charting ”. Read more …
Raster Charts… the comeback [Update]
[Update 26 August 2018]
I have been an ardent supporter of vector maps for several years.. Compact, of low numerical weight, easy to update, they are perfectly suited to use on our mobile devices.
According to the good old adage that only fools don't change their minds, Recent technical developments in hardware and software, added to maritime events that have occurred in recent years, have led me to reflect on the correctness of my opinion. Trained in the old school of safety in Glénans Sailing School, The only bias I must allow myself to express is that of the safety of human life at sea. This may sound a bit "old-fashioned" for some, but I assume. Hang, It's going to be a long time.
Plea for free European data
This could be a subject of the Baccalaureate in Economic Sciences, and although I never took this exam (because of post-68 incompatibility and Cancerism chronic) The subject seems to me sufficiently imminent and serious to attempt to deal with it, from my modest point of view. Read more …