i-Boating: Marine Charts & Gps 4+
Lake Maps & Fishing Spots
Bist LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Marine Chartplotter for your iPhone/iPad. Detailed Marine Charts & Fishing Maps for US, Canada, Europe, and Australasia. Depth contour maps with Aids to Navigation.
This App offers access to Marine Charts for USA,Canada,UK/Ireland,Germany,Netherlands/Holland &
Europe Rivers (Danube,Drava,Rhein etc). Coverage includes NOAA marine vector
charts,freshwater lake maps,USACE inland river maps (HD/1ft/3ft bathymetry
included where available),charts derived from UKHO & CHS data. First marine GPS app to have route assistance with Voice Prompts for marine navigation. You can create new boating routes or import existing GPX/KML routes. It supports Nautical Charts course up orientation. Includes Tide & Currents prediction.
►FEATURES
√ Beautiful & detailed Hardware/GPU accelerated vector charts (text stays upright on rotation)
√ Long press to query the details of Marine object (Buoy,Lights,Obstruction etc).
√ Customizable depth(Ft/Fathom/Meter) & distance units(km/mi/NM)
√ Customizable Shallow Depth.
√ Record tracks,Autofollow with real-time track overlay & predicted path vector.
√ Voice Prompts for marine navigation (requires GPS )
√ 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
It includes unlimited updates for 1 year.
√USA: The maps include coverage of all NOAA marine vector charts (ENC),USACE inland river maps,freshwater lake maps for more than 7K lakes. The charts include HD/1ft/3ft bathymetry where available.Incl. NOAA raster where ENC not available.
√Canada:Incl. CHS data(incl. 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 Route/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&Markers
√ Reverse Routes
►SLIP TO SLIP AUTO ROUTING
►GPS FEATURES
√ Auto Follow
* Real Time Track Overlay
* Predicted Path Vector
* Course Up(Text stays upright)
* Speed & Heading
√ Route Assistance With Voice Prompts
* Prompts when approaching a boating route marker
* Continous distance & ETA updates
* Alerts when sailing/boating off route
* Alerts when boating in wrong direction
√ Record Tracks
►TIDE & CURRENTS
* For US,Canada,UK,Germany & New Zealand
* High/Low Tides
* Tidal Current Prediction
* 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.
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
ANCLOTE KEYS-CRYSTAL RIVER
ST JOSEPH SOUND
MIAMI HARBOR
Minnesota lakes - Kabetogama,Minnetonka,Waconia,Leech,Mille Lacs
Lake Keowee,Jocassee,Hartwell,Greenwood,Lake Murray
Mark Twain,Ozarks,Table Rock
Lake St.Clair
Lake Kentucky
KEY WEST-THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
SAN PEDRO CHANNEL
LAKE MICHIGAN STONY LAKE-POINT BETSIE
APALACHICOLA BAY-CAPE SAN BLAS
EAST CAPE-MORMON KEY
CAPE HENLOPEN-INDIAN RIVER
CHESAPEAKE BAY CAPE HENRY-THIMBLE SHOAL
DULUTH-SUPERIOR
MONHEGAN ISLAND-CAPE ELIZABETH
ONTARIO - CLAYTON-FALSE DUCKS
Winnipesaukee
MIAMI-MARATHON,FLORIDA
CAPE MAY-FENWICK ISLAND
MISSISSIPPI RIVER-GALVESTON
CAPE CANAVERAL-KEY
DELAWARE RIVER WILMINGTON-PHILADELPHIA
FLORIDA KEYS SOMBRERO KEY-SAND KEY
SAN PABLO BAY
RAINY LAKE BIG ISLAND MINN-OAKPOINT
INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY-BISCAYNE BAY
EVERGLADES NTL PARK
HURON
TAHOE
CHESAPEAKE DELAWARE CANAL
BACKGROUND GPS CAN DECREASE BATTERY LIFE
What’s New
Version 152.0.0
- In time for Christmas, Lake map updates for Ice Fishing
- New lake depth maps covering UK (Rutland waters, Grafham etc)
- Compiled with latest version of Xcode
Ratings and Reviews
Very handy guide for a river / estuary going cruising dinghy.
I have yet to determine compass / heading accuracy . There seems to be a discrepancy in the indicated heading created by the route planner and an Imray /Admiralty chart.
Preliminary tests aboard a motor cruiser seem to be there or there a-bouts but Motor Cruisers don’t rely on the wind for power, obviously.
With the combined use of a good old fashioned compass, good planing with traditional paper chart and the convenience of a talking route map gives me multiple points of reference.
Best part is I can plan my estimated tacks by heading and distance according to predicted wind direction whilst allowing for variance, backing and veering.
Just listen to the voice prompts then tack on to the new heading.
Multiple potential scenarios can be pre-planned and shared across my portable devices including my non cellular iPads. An onboard 4G mini wifi keeps me in touch with the GPS function.
Bottom line for me is that I feel that it is unwise to rely on one type of media. My Garmin GPS 78s Chart plotter is a piece of over priced cat crap with no compatible interface with desk top software. Not to mention the cost of maps that you need a microscope to see.
This app gives me good flexibility and pretty accurate map folio for a very reasonable price. It suits my needs for cruising up and down the river Medway and Thames estuary.
Good for a dinghy, then good for a yacht or motor cruiser.
Great free app for holiday use
I downloaded several free apps but this one was by far the easiest to use. I quickly worked out how to plot a course and track progress, which is all I needed for short distance cruising whilst on holiday with a small boat. The free tile also covered more area than I needed so that was a great bonus. Will definitely use again on next boating holiday.
With a valid subscription good
Feel misled by the app. If subscription expires you can not download the same chart as part of your original purchase, I’m not referring to updates which I appreciate is valid for one year only.
It should be made clear that when you make a purchase it is not like a physical chart, you don’t ‘own’ a copy of the chart you have purchased.
I would use this app in conjunction with paper charts which I keep up to date hence don’t need the latest chart version.
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Information
- Provider
- Bist LLC
- Size
- 50.8 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Swedish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2013 Bist LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- UK / Ireland - Marine Charts £29.99
- UK / Ireland : Marine/Fishing £29.99
- UK / Ireland - Marine Charts £29.99
- UK / Ireland - Marine Charts £29.99
- UK / Ireland - Marine Charts £29.99
- UK / Ireland: Marine Charts & £29.99
- UK /Ireland - GPS Nautical Charts £29.99
- UK / Ireland - Marine Charts £29.99
- UK / Ireland: Boating & Fishing Maps £29.99
- Caribbean - Marine Charts £24.99