Sailing Apps for iPhones
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bubba
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Re: Sailing Apps for iPhones
Speaking of chartplotters has anyone installed something like this, Garmen GPSMAP 4208 Bundle w/GXM 51 Weather & GSD22 Sounder Modules. Were looking at a radar and XM weather system and this looks like a good choice and would replace our GPS and all it does plus mutch more, 3 D of the bottom and surface land crossed with AIS and radar. I talked to Tod at BWY's and he says there is a better one on the way a 7200 or something. This will get us ready for our trip to Alaska or anywhere.
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Duane Dunn, Allegro
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Re: Sailing Apps for iPhones
Memory Map just released their iPhone app. There is a free version that has Topo and large area Marine charts. The paid version get's you all NOAA charts and even let's you sync any other raster charts you have on your PC. Unfortunately it has a very un-iPhone app price of $33. No app should cost more that $10 no matter how great it is. Even so, I'll probably end up buying it. I've used Memory Map on my PC for years as my main planning software and have all kinds of raster charts for both the US and Canada. I've tried about every software product out there and I still come back to Memory Map, nothings beat it in 15 years of looking.
I used the Pocket PC version for quite a few years on board as my main chart display and the iPhone version looks very similar. Just a simple clean interface that pans and zooms really fast. Over all it's performance is better than the vector based Navionics product. There are trade offs to both, I do still like the look of a raster product as it has that paper feel, but you can't beat the ability of the vector products to layer on other data like tides and currents, and marina info. While my iPod will probably have both installed, I think the Navionics is still the best bang for the buck in the iPhone marine navigation app market. It's hard to beat their huge regions of data for only $10.
In particular Navionics is a deal for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. Getting all the BC Canada data for that price is unheard of. You can't come close to that many Canadian charts for less than $200 in the raster world. While all the raster charts in the US are free, Canada still wants a fortune for their charts.
I used the Pocket PC version for quite a few years on board as my main chart display and the iPhone version looks very similar. Just a simple clean interface that pans and zooms really fast. Over all it's performance is better than the vector based Navionics product. There are trade offs to both, I do still like the look of a raster product as it has that paper feel, but you can't beat the ability of the vector products to layer on other data like tides and currents, and marina info. While my iPod will probably have both installed, I think the Navionics is still the best bang for the buck in the iPhone marine navigation app market. It's hard to beat their huge regions of data for only $10.
In particular Navionics is a deal for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. Getting all the BC Canada data for that price is unheard of. You can't come close to that many Canadian charts for less than $200 in the raster world. While all the raster charts in the US are free, Canada still wants a fortune for their charts.