New thread: iNavX for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

[Bruce Moore]

It keeps getting better.

Tom MacNeil is a marine electronics specialist here in the Pacific Northwest. He's a long-time beta tester for GPSNavX and MacENC - marine navigation and charting solutions for the Mac. When Rich Ray, the developer of these products, asked Tom to beta test iNavX for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, he jumped all over it with great enthusiasm.

I haven’t been this excited since since I was a kid waiting for Christmas. The big present was the new 64GB iPad 3G. When Apple made the first announcement, I knew that this could be a solution to navigation on boats. Not only did I know this, but developer of iNavX marine software for the iPhone, Rich Ray also knew this to be a fact.

Read his full report here.

Cheers

 

[Sam Walker]

Oh My!

 

[Ram]

I don't know if you're looking for other opinions on this. I haven't tried the iNavx because of the cost. By the time I would buy the software and the charts I would need just for BC it would be over $200. By comparison, the Navionics charts for BC are only $25. They may not have the bells and whistles, but as a backup to my chart plotter they seem adequate.

 

[baz]

What would be useful here is a comparison between Chart&Tides by Navogon + ActiveCaptain and the iNavX.

I took a quick look and there would be a lot of effort before I could easily make the comparison. On the face of it iNavX is spendy compared to Charts&Tides... but presumably you're getting more chart detail with iNavX.

At this point I'm sticking with Charts&Tides + ActiveCaptain as an auxiliary backup to my R25's integrated Garmin chart plotter.

If there is a writeup that compares these two products I'd spend the time reading it.

 

[ogger]

There is something really cool about being in an 'old' tugboat while using a state of the art iPad. In Australia, the Navionics charts are quite suitable as I use the iPad charts as back up for my Raymarine chartplotter/fishfinder anyway.
There are a number of other useful Aps I have downloaded. Boating suite is a useful elog book and general record. Knot Guide is a great little app and the clearest demonstration of knot tying since Skip in the sea scouts many years ago. And it doesn't whop you to the back of the legs if you get the knot wrong like Skip did. What with a couple of weather apps and tide tables, you, your iPad and your tug are one with nature!
Cheers,
ogger

 

[baz]

...snip... Boating suite is a useful elog book and general record. Knot Guide is a great little app and the clearest demonstration of knot tying since Skip in the sea scouts many years ago. And it doesn't whop you to the back of the legs if you get the knot wrong like Skip did. What with a couple of weather apps and tide tables, you, your iPad and your tug are one with nature!
Cheers,
ogger

It would be nice if Boating Suite was iPad native like the Knot Guide application is. Both are good I agree.