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Voice prompts for Marine Navigation(Nautical & Marine Charts)

gpsskimaps

Newbie
Nov 20, 2010
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Hi,

We've released a marine navigation app with built in voice prompts for Android Tablets & Phones.

The following video illustrates some of these features in action.

Nautical Charts App - Demo Videos | Nautical Charts app

The app supports chart folios covering the following regions. We are working on adding additional regions:


Detailed feature list in this release

* Voice Prompts for marine navigation (requires GPS )
-prompts when approaching a boating route marker
-Continous distance and ETA updates
-Alerts when sailing/boating off route
-Alerts when boating in wrong direction

*Route Editing/Creation
-Create routes from scratch
-Edit existing GPX/KML routes.
-Add custom description to any route point.
-Drop markers along route.

* Offline NOAA charts
-Visually draw area to download
-Textual search
-Catalog (By state, region and coast guard district)
-Charts reprojected for WGS84 datum

* Tide & Currents
- High / Low tides.
- Tidal Currents.
- Active currents stations.

*Seamless chart quilting of marine charts

*Distance Bearing tool

*Create custom way points
- Using GPS
-Select point on map
-Manually enter latitude & longitude coordinates

*POI layer for marine charts
- Overlay POIs
- POI list derived from the equivalent ENC and contains all categories including Buoy, Light, Harbour facility, Obstr.

*Search POIs/Way points

*Pan/Zoom/My Location

* Record Marine GPS tracks

* View tracks overlay

* Live track animation

* Track analytics/stats

* Export GPX trcks.
-Export to SDCard
-Share GPX trakcs with friends/View on Google earth.

* Auto Follow Mode (Course up)
-Continuously updates boat's location on chart
- Adjustable update frequency

Thanks a lot for reading this,

--Gps Nautical Charts
(Nautical Charts app)
 

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