i-Boating: Marine Charts & Gps 144.0.0

This app offers access to marine charts for the USA, Canada, UK/Ireland, Germany, Netherlands/Holland, and Europe rivers such as the Danube, Drava, and Rhein. It provides coverage of NOAA marine vector charts, freshwater lake maps, USACE inland river maps with HD/1ft/3ft bathymetry where available, and charts derived from UKHO & CHS data. It is the first marine GPS app to offer route assistance with voice prompts for marine navigation. Users can create new boating routes or import existing GPX/KML routes. The app supports nautical charts course up orientation and includes tide & currents predictions.

Features:

• Beautiful & detailed hardware/GPU accelerated vector charts
• Long press to query the details of marine objects like buoys, lights, obstructions, etc.
• Customizable depth and distance units
• Customizable shallow depth
• Record tracks and auto-follow with real-time track overlay & predicted path vector
• Voice prompts for marine navigation
• 1ft/3ft depth contour maps for anglers for selected lake maps
• Supports GPX/KML for boating route editing/import
• Tide & currents prediction
• Seamless chart quilting of marine charts
• Enter or import waypoints

Maps:

The app includes unlimited updates for 1 year with coverage in various regions:

• USA: Includes all NOAA marine vector charts (ENC), USACE inland river maps, and freshwater lake maps for more than 7K lakes. HD/1ft/3ft bathymetry is included where available. NOAA raster is used when ENC charts are not available.
• Canada: Includes CHS data, including major lakes.
• UK/Ireland: Derived from UKHO charts.
• Australia
• Germany: Derived from BSH data.
• Europe Inland Rivers: Donau/Dunaja, Rhine, Garonne, Moselle, Drava, Sava, etc.
• Norway
• Finland
• Sweden
• Croatia
• Ukraine (Black Sea)
• Caribbean
• New Zealand
• Spain
• Brazil
• Argentina
• Cyprus
• Falklands
• Seychelles & Mauritius
• Denmark
• Malta, Cyprus & S. Mediterranean
• S. China & Malaysia
• South Africa

Route Management / Trip Planning:

• Create new routes/edit existing routes
• Move points
• Add points to an existing route leg
• Delete/rename points
• Import GPX/KML/KMZ files
• Plot/edit routes
• Enter waypoints
• Share/export routes, tracks, and markers
• Reverse routes

Slip to Slip Auto Routing:

GPS Features:

• Auto follow with real-time track overlay and predicted path vector with course up orientation and speed & heading information
• Route assistance with voice prompts when approaching a boating route marker and continuous distance & ETA updates
• Alerts when sailing/boating off route or in the wrong direction
• Record tracks

Tide & Currents:

• For US, Canada, UK, Germany, and New Zealand
• Provides high/low tides, tidal current predictions, and active current stations

Instrumentation:

• Marine AIS & (NMEA AIS and GPS over TCP/UDP)
• Wind direction & speed, marine sonar depth, water temperature
• Auto Pilot

Sharing:

• Share tracks/routes/markers on Facebook & Twitter
• Export tracks/routes/markers as GPX files

The app covers various locations such as Sugarloaf Key-Key West, Port Richey Tampa Bay - Clearwater HBR, East Bay-West Bay Florida, Intracoastal Waterway Matecumbe-Grassy Key, Chesapeake Bay Cape Charles-Norfolk Harbor, and many more.

Note: Background GPS usage can decrease battery life.