Since Garmin has acquired Navionics (¹), it will not take more than a year for Navionics also make its small (r)evolution in its flagship iOS and Android application . New logo, renouncing the multiplicity of applications, abandonment of duality iPad/iPhone, pricing standardization, bring, among other changes, a little more consistency in supply. Read more …
Label : cartography
Transas iSailor becomes Wärtsilä iSailor [Update]
It had to happen one day ! iSailor users will be disappointed… in May 2018, Transas was acquired by the Finnish group Wärtsilä Corporation, a global leader in technology and markets intelligent solutions for the marine and energy. As part of the integration into Wärtsilä brand, Transas iSailor is undergoing a makeover process that you will notice in the next release. Transas iSailor becomes Wärtsilä iSailor. Read more …
Fugawi charts service is discontinued [Update]
It's official, the 30 November 2018, Johnson Outdoors Company, recently acquired Fugawi (*), decided to stop its activities. After discontinuing the distribution of their PC navigation software in August 2017, having closed the marine equipment shop selling online last spring, it is the turn of the download charts server to disappear. Read more …
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 found again a real literary enthusiasm from reading this excellent book by Raymond Reding : " Beaufort, Admiral wind ".
Like any sailor that complies, I know the Beaufort scale since my first legs in sailing school, but, shame on me, I never wanted to know more about this famous Francis Beaufort ! Raymond Reding, went like me through Les Glénans Sailing school, finally fills this gap with the dismal delight. 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. Passing time, to refresh this information, due to recent corporate moves. Some have disappeared, as Maptech, recently Fugawi, others have changed hands, an update is needed.
Thunderclap that 27 October 2017, Navionics charts was acquired by Garmin (¹) ! The latter remained independent private publisher, to this day the hand of the Italian founder Giuseppe Carnevali, happening in the portfolio of the Garmin multinational company, shortly after the acquisition of the global database Active Captain. The cards are again redistributed…
Digital charts : purchase or subscription [Update] ?
[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 the fact that I am not the NavX Studios LLC bracket (iNavX) (¹), a focus is needed on the method of charts provision by distributors for our mobile applications.
The new boundaries 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$ each. It is worth noting that each year a new edition replaces the previous, 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. other is an investor from northern Europe who describes himself as :
"Altor is a family of private equity funds focused on investing in and developing up to medium sized companies with’a Nordic origin. We want to create enduring values up to make a real difference as a valuable partner for owners and managers in buiding from world class companies. We work with a Nordic team with extensive international experience in fields such as private equity, consulting, investment banking and various industrial sectors."
But why so talk ? Read more …
Does Navionics charting become dangerous [Update] ?
Since the beginning of the navigation season, many boaters have found an increasing number of errors on Navionics charts, as a result of recent updates, all media. A bit everywhere in Europe, Germany, Baltic countries, French coasts of the Channel and until Spain, appeared non-existent channels and erroneous soundings, missing soundings, missing information, contradictory bathymetric information depending on the zoom levels, and so on. The most important is that these findings are made by assiduous users of long-standing Navionics cartography, experienced navigators.
[Corrective update 26 August 2015]
[SHIFT-2 amendment October 2015] See end of entry. Read more …
Reading : 'Electronic charting' HS48 Voiles et Voiliers
Since late 2012 I found no more of maritime books causing me the overwhelming desire to share, like the few novels described in this topic " Reading ". Today this feeling resumes me, in any other order of idea, after reading the excellent special issue No. 48 of Voiles et Voiliers : " Understand and use electronic charting ". Read more …