[Rhodes22-list] iPad as chartplotter

[Chris Cowie]

I have the navionics on my iPhone and it's pretty neat but rather  
small and slow to pan.  The ipad version sounds great.  I use ship  
finder on my iPhone and it shows me all the ais ship traffic on the  
Chesapeake bay.  Pretty nice having a $9.99 ais device in my shirt  
pocket.   I also rely on weather bug for live radar and imagine it  
would read a lot better on the ipad.  Maybe next season.

Chris Cowie
Cowie Associates PC


On Jun 27, 2010, at 12:40 PM, "Gregg MacMillan" <gjm at techgra.com> wrote:

> This was posted on the trailsail list, but thought some of your here
> would be interested.
>
> I have the iPad and the new iPhone, but have not tried this yet.
>
> --Gregg
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> We recently purchased an Apple iPad. Its coolness factor just jumped
> an order of magnitude when I found and downloaded a complete set of
> digital charts for all the Great Lakes for all of $25 (Navionics). You
> can pan and zoom to your heart's content, since these are vector
> charts. Plotting a route via a series of waypoints is simple--just
> touch the screen at each waypoint, then tell it to group those
> waypoints as a route. The screen is much larger than the one on our
> Garmin Chartplotter.
>
> If you have a 3g ipad, the software will show your position
> continuously via the built-in gps (no cellular connection needed). If
> you have a wi-fi only ipad, you can buy an inexpensive bluetooth gps
> and use that (altho this approach does require jailbreaking the ipad).
>
> At any rate, the ipad could be used as a large chartplotter, with the
> caveats that it is not marinized as are many chartplotters, it does
> not include some bells and whistles such as a MOB button, and the
> screen can be a bit hard to read in direct sunlight. We plan to use it
> as an adjunct to our paper charts to reduce the wear and tear on them,
> as it makes it so easy to look around at with whatever chart scale we
> want. It can also calculate the distance between any two moveable
> points. I'm also going to get a bluetooth gps so I can play with it as
> a back-up chart plotter.
>
> If you already have an iphone, the same charts are available for it,
> but the screen is quite a bit smaller than that of the ipad. Word is
> that the ipad's gps is a bit better, but both work.
>
> Mike
>
> p.s. as one of the cruise leaders, I must add that it is prudent have
> paper charts even if you have electronic charts...
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