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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 863 charts (1429 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).
I presented in September 2023 (¹) the latest mobile communication device of the Iridium company : the GO! Exec®. Iridium has just announced the availability of its new social network application Chat App In Apple Store and Google Play. Read more …
The newspaper Le Monde published in November 2024 this great study in his collection « Nature ».
Prefaced by Jean-Louis Etienne, our national explorer that we no longer present, this extremely didactic scientific work allows us to deepen our knowledge of the climate, meteorology, and disturbances they undergo.
Updating charts Norway (NHS) at Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
232 Charts (470 including inserts) are available in the Geogarage catalogue.
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March, the volume 2 from Introduction to Marine Weather – Weather in the Mediterranean, is updated on the iBook Store (Apple Books)
Version 1.2 – Layout improvements and link fixes.
Warning : A severe bug still unfixed affects the new process for uploading book updates. The version number is no longer replaced on the iBook Store and remains "Original". On the other hand, the description of the modifications is present. Once again : thank you Apple !
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Update of "rasterized" ENC charts Portugal (IHPT) at Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
The catalogue also includes Madeira, Azores, Islands of the Cape Verde, plus additional cards Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe and Angola.
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Update of "rasterized" ENC charts Spain (IHM) at Geogarage for Weather4D Routage & Navigation and SailGrib WR.
The catalogue includes the coasts of Spain and the Canary Islands.
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Updating ENC Maps Croatia (HHI) rasterized for Weather4D Routing & Navigation and SailGrib WR .
Out of a total of 316 charts available.
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Changes have been made to the available ocean GRIB models :
After NOAA, which has just suffered the wrath of the Trump administration (1), here is the Météo-France institute in turn pinned by the national press. After the newspaper La Dépêche on March 24 th, Le Monde adds on April the 20 th (2) by taking stock of the situation and studying the causes of the recent errors that have occurred several times in the weather forecasts of recent months Read more …
Following the catastrophic weather phenomenon that hit Corsica on 18 August 2022, causing considerable damage, Météo-France has undertaken to deploy additional resources in the western Mediterranean to better predict the occurrence of such phenomenon.
March, the 5 th 2025, Météo-France has launched the fifth in a series of weather buoys anchored off the coast of France northwest of Corsica. This deployment is part of the reinforcement of the sea observation system, initiated in June 2023, and aims to improve local capacity to anticipate extreme weather events before they reach land. Read more …