Caribbean, South Africa, Croatia, Oman and Estonia chart folios.

We are pleased to announce the availability of chart folios covering the following regions in Gps Nautical Charts app for Android, Blackberry and iPhone (coming soon!!)

• Caribbean
• South Africa
• Croatia
• Oman
• Estonia

We  have make sure that we have coverage for popular areas (including Aruba, Nassau, Barbados, Jamaica etc.).  If we have missed out your cruising area, please do let us know.

Trent Severn Waterway charts now available.

We are pleased to announce that we have updated the Canada chart folio to include all charts covering the Trent Severn waterway. The new folio includes access to all charts covering the canal system and popular lakes including Lake Simcoe,  Lake Scugog, Lake Couchiching, Lake Balsam, Lake Cameron,    Lake Sturgeon, Rice Lake, Lake Buckhorn, Pigeon lake etc.

You can find all charts covering the Trent Severn waterway here.

• Trent Severn Waterway Charts

If we have missed out your cruising area, please do let us know.

Nautical Charts for Western Coast of Canada

We are pleased to announce the availability of nautical charts covering Pacific coast of Canada. This folio is derived from ENC data and is available on all devices the app supports.

The detailed list of all charts covered in this folio is available below.

• Pacific and Central Canada folio

If you see your chart missing, please let us know.

New resorts additions to US/Canada Gps Ski Maps

We have added support for the following ski resorts in US/Canada version of Gps Ski Maps for Blackberry, Android & iPhone.   Here you can find the complete list of supported ski resorts in US/Canada.

•         Angelfire, NM
•         Camelback, PA
•         Mountain High, CA
•         Mountain Creek, NJ
•         Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC
•         Mont-Ste-Marie, QC
•         Stoneham, QC
•         Grouse Mountain, BC
•         Kimberley, BC

Gps Ski Maps for Japan

We are pleased to announce that starting this year we will be supporting ski resorts in Japan in Gps Ski Maps for Android, iPhone and Blackberry.

The app supports 40+ popular ski resorts in Japan.  Here you can find the  updated list of supported ski resorts in Japan. Please do let us know if we the resort that you ski at is missing from the list below.

• Akita
  
  Tazawako
• Aomori
  
  Hakkoda
• Fukushima
  
  Urabandai Nekoma
• Gunma
  
  Kawaba, Oze Iwakura, Houdaigi, Katashina Kogen, Oze Tokura
• Hokkaido
  
  Sapporo Teine, Tomamu, Asahidake, Niseko, Sahoro, Rusutsu, Sapporo Kokusai, Furano, Kiroro, Niseko Moiwa
• Iwate
  
  Appi Kogen
• Nagano
  
  Happo-One, Hakuba 47/Goryu, Ciao Ontake, Nozawa Onsen, Tangram Ski Circus, Ryuoo, Iwatake, Yamaboku, Tsugaike, Madarao Kogen, Shiga Kogen
• Niigata
  
  Ikenotaira Onsen, Naeba, Akakan, Yuzawa Kogen, Ishiuchi, Kagura, Charmant Hiuchi, Myoko Akakura Onsen, Myoko Suginohara, Gala Yuzawa
• Yamagata
  
  Zao Onsen

Nautical Charts for Germany now available

We are pleased to announce the availability of nautical charts covering Germany.
Nautical charts covering Baltic sea and North sea  are included in  the app available for all Blackberry and Android devices (both phone and tablet form factors).

• Nautical Chart Folio covering German waters.

This folio is derived form ENC data.  If you see your chart missing, please let us know.

How to use nautical chart app for marine navigation?

We've set up the following page on how to use the marine chart app for navigation. We've created a separate page for all device categories that we support.

Please let us know if we've missed out something or anything that needs more details.

http://www.gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/marine-navigation-app

Nautical Charts for Central Canada - St. Lawrence river

We are pleased to announce the release of nautical charts covering Central Canada and St. Lawrence river. The detailed list of all charts covered in this folio is available below.

• Central Canada folio

This folios is derived from ENC data and is available on all Android, Blackberry and QNX devices.  If you see your chart missing, please let us know.

Tide & Currents (US) app now available.

We are pleased to announce the release of Tide & Currents app.  The app is available for all Android & Blackberry devices (phones & tablets).

Here are some of the features in the current update:

• High low tide predictions (daily, weekly, monthly predictions).
• Tidal Current predictions (daily, weekly, monthly predictions).
• Active Current Station data
• Favorite Station Manager
• View Stations as overlay on a map.

Here is a typical workflow to use the app.

1. Identify stations where you serf/sail etc and add them to your favorite list. This makes it easier to access the station data.
2. The best way to identify stations is to browse the catalog and select "View on map". For e.g. the tidal current prediction stations that I am interested in are under:

• California -> Golden Gate Bridge

Update: These features will also be available to existing users of our 'Gps Nautical Charts' app.

Nautical charts for Netherlands, Belgium and Iceland

We are pleased to announce the release of nautical charts covering the following regions:

• Netherlands
• Belgium 
• Iceland

The chart folios are available for all  Blackberry & Android phone/tablets. 

We do special processing to create chart bundles that merge RNC chart data available across multiple scales to a single bundle. The object layers available in equivalent ENCs are also available as layers for the same chart and are searchable.

If we have missed out the chart you are looking for, please do let us know.

Android Marine Charts App

We are pleased to announce the release of Nautical Charts App for Android.  The Android app supports all devices running OS 1.5 or higher. The marine chart app also works on Amazon Kindle.

You can download the marine chart app by going to the following link in your Android phone.

http://gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/natuical-charts-app-software

The marine chart app provides full coverage for all NOAA charts covering US and all UKHO/Admiralty charts covering UK.
The complete list of charts supported by the app is available at the link below.

• US nautical charts coverage 
• UK nautical charts coverage

A complete list of  supported features of   marine charts app for Android and Blackberry is available  here.  Feel free to drop us a line for any feature requests, comments.

Topo App for Android

We are pleased to announced that we've released a version of TopoSports for Android. The Android app supports all Android devices running OS version 1.5 and higher. The app also works on Amazon Kindle.

You can download the app by going to the following link in your Android phone.

http://www.toposports.com/main/software

A complete list of supported features is available at this link. Please feel free to  drop us a line for any feature requests, comments.

A brief summary of supported features is included below:

• Download topo maps of any quad  in US , Canada and New Zealand for offline usage.
• Seamless mosaicing of quad    
• Distance/Bearing tool
• Create custom way points
• POI layer for each quad
• Search POIs/Way points
• Pan/zoom/locate yourself
• Record GPS tracks
•  View tracks overlay
• Live track animation
•  Track analytics/stats
•  Export tracks in GPX format.
• Auto Follow Mode
• Import Manager 

The screenshots for  Android  Topo App are available on our facebook page.

Mt Buller Ski Resort now supported by Gps Ski Maps

We are pleased to announce that we've added support for Mt Buller ski resort in Gps Ski App for 2012-13 ski season.  Gps Ski App covering ski resorts in Argentina and Chile is also now available in the app.

If your resort is not supported or if you've any other questions, please drop us a line.

Nautical Chars HD for Playbook is now available.

We are pleased to announce the release of Nautical Charts HD for Blackberry Playbook.
The marine charts app for playbook is available both for US as well as UK. We are working on adding support for other regions.
Included below are the links to download the app directly from AppWorld.

• US Nautical Charts HD for Playbook
• UK Nautical Charts HD for Playbook

The playbook version has the following features, which are not currently available on the phone version:

1.) Import Manger: This provides the ability to import GPX and KML route/tracks. We will make this feature available on the phone version as well.

2.) Course up in Auto Folllow mode: On playbook, the chart automatically rotates in Auto Follow mode so that its always aligned course up. Blackberry OS for phones does not expose the APIs to efficiently support this on phones.

Please do check that the app covers the marine charts in your region.

• US Marine Charts Folio
• UK Marine Chart Folio

For any questions, feature requests, enhancements, feel free to drop us a line.

Topo Sports HD for Playbook now available.

We are pleased to announce the release of TopoSports HD for Playbook. The app supports all the features that the blackberry phone version of the app supports. In addition to that, for Playbook, in auto follow mode, the map automatically rotates so that its always facing course up.

Here is the link to download the app directly from AppWorld.

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/105997/?lang=EN

TopoSports HD for Playbook, offers fully offline, GPS accurate, high quality Topo maps covering entire USA(Alaska coming soon),  Canada & New Zealand (NEW!!) for outdoor sports enthusiasts - bikers, hikers etc.  The app gives you access to 70000+ quads that cover almost all of USA, Canada & New Zealand. US data is derived from USGS 1:24K DRGs . Canada data is derived from NRCan 1:50K Toporama  DRGs.  New Zealand data is derived from 1:50K DRGs published by LINZ. The app also provides offline access to Geographic Names data for downloaded quads imported from GNIS/NRCan/LINZ.

Here is a complete list of features supported in the app:

• Download topo maps of any quad  in USA/Canada/New Zealand for offline usage.
•  Download 1:24K scale maps for US. For Canada & New Zealand the maps have 1:50K scale.
•  Seamless mosaicing of quads
•  Distance/Bearing tool
•  Create custom way points either using your current location or via manual selection.
•  Geographic names layer for each quad
•  Pan/zoom/locate yourself
•  Record GPS tracks
•  Supports built in GPS. Currently the Recording of GPS tracks works only while Playbook device screen is on/ device is not sleeping.
•   View tracks overlay
•   Live track animation
•  Track analytics/stats
•   Export tracks in GPX format to SDCard.
•   Import routes and waypoints from file/web.
•  Auto Follow mode
•  The app continuously updates your location on the map in auto follow mode.
•  The map automatically rotates so that it is always facing course up.

Nautical charts app updated with Admiralty charts covering UK waters.

We are pleased to announce an update to Gps Nautical Charts. The new version adds supports for UKHO charts covering UK waters.

The UK version includes fully offline GPS accurate UKHO RNCs® along with POI layers created from UKHO ENCs® covering entire UK (other European regions coming soon). We do special processing to create chart bundles that merge RNC chart data available across multiple scales to a single bundle. The object layers available in equivalent ENCs are also available as layers for the same chart and are searchable.

A complete folio of available charts can be seen here. The UK charts are divided into the following folios for ease of download.

• BRISTOL CHANNEL & SOUTH IRELAND
• ENGLAND S COAST & SCILLIES
• IRELAND W C-KENMARE R-FORELAND
• IRISH SEA
• N&E SCOTLAND-LEWIS-FORTH-N ISLES
• NORTH SEA-FORTH-THAMES ENTRANCE
• SCOTLAND KINTYRE-LOCH BROOM
• THAMES-MEDWAY & APPROACHES
• OTHERS

If we have missed out the chart you are looking for, please do let us know.

Topo Sports now has an Import Manager

We are pleased to announce the release of new version (v 8.2) of the TopoSports app. The new version adds support for the following:

• Import Manager
• Track /route overlay improvements.

Import Manager

The import manager lets you import routes and waypoints from GPX and KML files. The Import Manager is accessible from:

• The homescreen of the app.
• Via menu from the map screen.

The import manager let you import GPX and KML files that are stored:

• Locally on the device
• Remotely over the web: You must know the http url of the GPX or KML file for importing remotely.

We've tried to support most commonly used elements used in GPX and KML files found on the web. The app even tries its best to figure out if the file is compressed and automatically uncompress it before import. If for some reason, the app is unable to handle your file, please contact us by email and we will try our best to support it.

Once the files are imported, they are accessible via the "Imported Routes/Tracks" and "Imported WayPoints" items in the Import Manager. Please note that only imported routes and waypoints are accessible from these items. To view tracks that you've recorded manually, you need to click on the "View Recorded Tracks" item.

Route/Track overlay improvements

With the new version you would notice much smoother route/track overlay paths, compared to the previous versions. Like all our updates, this one is backward compatible.

Gps Nautical Charts released.

We are pleased to announce the first release of Gps Nautical Charts app for Blackberry.

The app includes fully offline GPS accurate NOAA RNCs® along with POI layers created from NOAA ENCs® covering entire USA (other regions coming soon). We do special processing to create chart bundles that merge RNC chart data available across multiple scales to a single bundle. The object layers available in equivalent ENCs are also available as layers for the same chart and are searchable.

Some of the features in this release are:

• Download any NOAA RNC chart in US for offline usage
• Auto Follow Mode
• Seamless mosaicing of chart, whenever possible
• Distance/Bearing tool
• Create custom way points
• POI layer for each Chart derived from ENCs
• Search POIs/Way points
• Pan/zoom/locate yourself
• Record GPS tracks
• View tracks overlay
• Live track animationTrack analytics/stats
• Export tracks in GPX format.

A complete description of the feature is also available at this link. A video illustrating features of the app is here.

TopoSports now supports Auto Follow mode

We've updated Toposports to version 6.1. This version of the app has the following two features:

• Auto Follow mode
• Digital zoom

Auto Follow Mode

When the auto follow mode is on, the app continuously updates your current location on the map at regular interval. The refresh frequency defaults to once every 3 seconds but can be changed by changing the interval value under Options.

To enable this do the following:

• Open the quad map
• Press menu and select 'Auto Follow'

The indicator at the bottom right of your screen would first show "Scan". Once the device locks to satellites, it would turn to "Follow". When the indicator is set to "Follow", the app would continuously update your location on the screen.

Digital zoom

The latest version of the app adds an additional layer of zoom to all the quads. While the app has had this option for almost an year now, it has been made default with this release. It can enabled/disabled via the corresponding check box under Options.