It automatically downloads all charts (both vector and raster) from NOAA and the US Army Corps of Engineers for regions of USA you select. My workflow involves planning and plotting on the laptop, then transferring the files to phone and iPad for reference underway. SEAiq USA is a full-featured marine navigation app. I’ve also loaded New Zealand ENC charts as well as purchased others from Chartworld.
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If you’re in the US you have free future access to all the official NOAA charts, and the tiling is handled reasonably well. It includes support for loading vector charts in the S-57, S-63, and iENC formats and use of external NMEA/AIS over WiFi.IMPORTANT: For non-pilots, we recommend SEAiq Free and SEAiq Open.This app.
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It also includes the ability to automatically download charts from NOAA for the USA and download of raster charts based on. It is the only marine navigation app that allows you to load your own charts in a variety of standard formats, including: S-57, S-63, iENC, BSB, and KAP. It automatically downloads all charts (both vector and raster) from NOAA and the US Army Corps of Engineers for regions of USA you select. SEAiq is a full-featured marine navigation app. Also useful is the ability to attach a VRM or EBL to AIS targets. SEAiq USA is a full-featured marine navigation app. The AIS functionality is also incredibly useful the course vectors and rate of turn indicators make it very easy to visualize crossing situations. Logbook (Only SEAiq Pilot): Maintain logbook. Pilot Setup (Only SEAiq Pilot): Settings to adjust when boarding vessel. Units: Select units to use for depth, distance, speed, degrees, etc.
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(That last just involved creative use of a handful of EBLs.) This is only used on Microsoft Windows touch devices, for which Microsoft does not automatically open the virtual keyboard. I’ve added danger bearings, marked out anchorage areas, even plotted a running fix with it. The chart tool functionality (multiple EBLs, VRMs, and other markup functions) mean you can, if needed, perform similar operations that you might be used to on paper charts. We will follow suit again this summer.SEAiq is what I consider to be the only real navigation app around for iOS. Their crowd-sourced bathymetric data is pretty useful, however.
Unfortunately, Navionics has no intent of integrating AC as they have their own version of crowd-sources inputs- which has proved utterly useless on this coast. This will help make it more available on chart plotters.
Recently AC announced that C-Map is integrating AC into all of their products and will release March-2016. We need to find a better way or a nav app that does buffer. Keep the entries local until one can reliably be on the internet. We had the impression they would buffer and send at next connection. We started writing AC inputs last year using the interface in SEAiq Open, but learned the hard way if it wasn't connected to the internet, the entries were lost. The system worked really well when we had to leave northern Haapai at 10 pm at night. It also carries books such as a local cruising guide, a different Navionics chart, etc. I have made suggestions to AC for reducing their underlying assumptions in the posts but so far they have gone unanswered. The iPad is running SEAiq Open, using its built-in GPS receiver. SEAiq Pilot is the only multi-platform piloting solution, with support for all major platforms and all pilot plugs and PPU devices. Last I looked in AC groceries, fall under Shopping, and ratings are Excellent to Poor, but there is no Not Available as we would enter so many times in more remote regions.
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