i-Boating

Monday, May 15, 2023

Single marine charts folio covering UK, Ireland, France and Netherlands

We are pleased to announce that we now have a unified folio covering UK, Ireland, France and Netherlands.

The folio also includes charts for inland rivers and canal system in UK and Netherlands (including depth maps with HD bathymetry). In addition to coastal charts, we have also incorporated French inland rivers and lake maps.

Its already available for Android and iOS.

It will be available soon for MacOS and Windows.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Offline i-Boating WMTS (Web Map Tile Service - Marine Charts & Lake Maps)

We are pleased to announce the availability of i-Boating WMTS, an application supported on Windows & MacOS.

The i-Boating WMTS is a dynamic web map tile service that runs on your localhost and provides coverage for marine charts and lake depth maps. Its the most customizable marine WMTS and compatible with QGIS, ArcGIS, ArcGIS online, Grassgis and any software compatible with the OGC WMTS standard.

Its the only Marine Charts WMTS that's capable of running offline and more customizable than a chartplotter.

Offline support: Designed for private internal use to run on your localhost even when offline
Change depth unit to feet, meter or fathom
Tile size can be customized to 256, 512 or 1024
Both http and https support
For https, add your own SSL certificate or use our bundled self-signed certificate
Compatible with most GIS software and web - applications including QGIS, ArcGIS, ArcGIS online, GrassGIS and platforms like Here Maps, Google Maps, javascript libraries like Leaflet, Openlayers etc
Choose between Light and dark mode
Custom depth offset
Custom shading
Option to use an offline basemap
Capable of serving maps till zoom 20

I have included below an introductory video on getting started with the i-Boating WMTS.

We also have an i-Boating WMTS Tutorial video series on youtube.

Thursday, April 20, 2023

i-Boating Video Tutorials

We have created a few video tutorial on using the i-Boating app. The tutorial videos are organized in a playlist.

Youtube Playlist for i-Boating tutorial videos

Here is a list of all topics covered in our video tutorials.

The video have been created on iOS (iPhone/iPad).

The steps are similar on Android, Windows & MacOS.

Friday, April 14, 2023

NMEA alarms for depth and wind speed are now available in i-Boating

The latest version of the i-Boating application now lets you set an alarm for depth and wind speed. Its supported on all platforms (iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS).

You must have a working NMEA instrumentation set up in the i-Boating application to use these features. Simply tap/click on the blue text/button showing the depth to set the alarms, adjust thresholds etc.

I've included below a few screenshots with this feature in action.

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Ontario lakes (Lac Nepewassi) boating and fishing

i-Boating includes detailed vector charts of inland lakes in Ontario for boating and fishing. Its the largest collection of contour maps for popular Ontario lakes.

All maps can be downloaded for offline use to your device (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android). Once downloaded you can study lake topography, identify structure and mark potential fishing spots. GPS features are supported on all platforms and work well on all inland lakes without internet connectivity.

Lac Nepewassi Depth Map

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Australia & New Zealand inland lakes

We have been working to constantly improve our coverage for inland lakes in Australia and New Zealand. We have prioritized lakes and water bodies that have been requested by our customers. If you have the i-Boating app, please update your maps to get access to the new lakes that have been added. If your favorite lake is still missing, please let us know so that we can follow up on it.