Catalog update of SHOM charts France / DOM-TOM and dependencies by Geogarage projects for Weather4D Routing & Navigation up to SailGrib WR
- 195 updated charts (whose 19 new editions)
The catalog includes 860 charts (1429 with insets)
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Catalog update of SHOM charts France / DOM-TOM and dependencies by Geogarage projects for Weather4D Routing & Navigation up to SailGrib WR
The catalog includes 860 charts (1429 with insets)
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14 March 2011 – 14 March 2024, a birthday (¹) which does not fall round, but a performance worth saluting ! What was just a Startup in the early days of the use of tablets and smartphones in navigation is now a company with a long history (²). Dominique Gauthier, its founder and manager, has participated for more than ten years in securing our iPads by becoming the exclusive importer for France of the famous cases aiShell (Originally “iPad Case”). Designed and manufactured in Germany, Waterproof and robust properties that no longer need to be demonstrated, with a wide range of supports and accessories to meet all needs at sea. Read more …
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Iridium to Expand its Reach as a Global Alternative PNT Service."
Here's how Iridium presents the acquisition of its partner Satelles. The 4 March 2024, Iridium Communications, strategic partner of the company Satelles of which he already owns 20% of capital, has announced its full acquisition, to become Iridium's Satellite Time and Location business unit. Iridium buys the 80% of remaining capital for approximately 115 million dollars (¹).
With this acquisition, Iridium's ambition is to provide a PNT service (²) more robust and reliable than current GNSS networks (³). Read more …
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Updated 2.0.89 Available for fixing a crash on opening with the latest version iOS/iPadOS 17.4. The crash is caused by an iOS bug in the transmitted atmospheric pressure data. No more applications receive this data.
The bug does not affect the Lite and Routing versions.
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As you might expect, Garmin cleaned up the offer and pricing of Navionics Boating charts at the beginning of the year 2024.
No more large areas (like the Mediterranean) at 35 € ! Several zones are redefined and subscription prices are aligned uniformly to 50 € for the most part, with two exceptions. Read more …
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First appeared at the end of June 2023, The Bloc Marine app, edited by Meteo Consult / Le Figaro Nautisme, has replaced the Guide Escales (¹), previously removed from the Apple Store. This last application had been far from unanimous following a catastrophic pricing policy over the course of successive updates (²). Read more …
As a result of the prediction of an episode El Niño started in March 2023 (¹) and confirmed the following June (²), this climatic phenomenon of the Pacific Ocean, called ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), strengthened until the end of December, early January 2024.
The February ENSO forecast developed by the U.S. Climate Prediction Center predicts that we are on the eve of an episode La Niña, even though the Pacific Ocean is still affected by the El Niño episode. According to forecasts, there is 79 % chance that El Niño will become neutral by April-June, up to 55 % chance that the Pacific will return to ENSO La Niña between June and August.
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Since the arrival of the ARM-based Mac (M1… M3…) and the system macOS 11 Big Sur, Weather4D Routing & Navigation runs natively on our favorite computers (¹). But this happy event was not going to, since then, without a few small restrictions. The most annoying one for users was, to date, loss of distance calculation. This is done on touch devices by a two-finger long press, there was no function to translate this gesture on Mac. The mouse has only one pointer, not two ! Read more …
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Update of the charts catalogue CHS Canada projects for Weather4D Routing & Navigation up to SailGrib WR by Geogarage.
In total the catalogue includes 810 charts (1765 with insets)
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20 years after NMEA 2000 and more than 40 years after NMEA0183, OneNet® is the third-generation NMEA standard for interfacing and networking marine data.
In development since 2010 by NMEA members (1), to be published in late 2021, the OneNet standard is based on the IP Internet Protocol (2) version 6 (IPv6) and runs on IEEE Ethernet LAN 802.3. This new standard is intended to combine the three NMEA data standards — OneNet, NMEA 2000, NMEA0183 — on a single local area network (LAN). Read more …