Persian/Arabian Gulf, Red Sea & Gulf of Aden now available in i-Boating

We are pleased to announce that we have added support for coverage of Persian/Arabian Gulf, Red Sea & Gulf of Eden.  The folio covering this region is available in i-Boating for both iOS and Android devices.

The folio includes coverage of the following regions:

• Oman
• Persian Gulf
• Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
• United Arab Emirates

You can find more details at the link below:

• Persian/Arabian Gulf, Red Sea & Gulf of Aden folio

i-Boating now supports inland Russian waterways (incl. Volga River & Moscow area).

We are really excited to announce the availability of charts covering inland Russian waterways. This includes Volga river and waterways covering Moscow area. Coverage is 100% vector. The app has already been translated to Russian. If you have an Android device, you should already have the version localized to Russian. iOS users, please wait until the new version is approved by Apple.

The following regions are covered in the latest update.

• Central Region: Includes Volga, Nerl, Kashinka, Unzha, Moskva, Dubna, Hotchya, Shosha, Oka, Reservoir from Tver to Nizhny Nowogrod, Ivankovskoe, Channel im.Moskvy.
• North West: Curonian Lagoon, Kaliningrad region of the river, Nevskaya Guba, Neva River, rivers and lakes of the Karelian Isthmus, Ladoga lake, Svir river, lake Onega, White Sea-Baltic Canal, Volga-Baltic Canal (Vytegra River), White lake, Iwinski spill
• South Russia: Volga (Balakovo to Delta), Volgograd reservoir, Volga Delta, Volga-Don canal to them. Lenin, river Don, Tsimlyansk reservoir, Kuban river, river Protoka
• Volga Karma region: Includes Cheboksary, Kuibyshev, Saratov reservoirs and rivers Kama, Ufa, Chusovaya, Sylva, collapse, Inva, Vishera, Vetluga.

Minnesota fishing maps in i-Boating

i-Boating supports HD Bathymetry (1ft) for Minnesota Fishing Maps.  This includes fishing maps for Kabetogama, Namakan, Minnetonka, Mille Lacs, Leech and over 1500 Minnesota fishing lakes (vector format).
We have also partnered with Vexilar, a Minnesota company to add support for viewing live Sonar on your iOS device. So if you are looking for Minnesota lake depth maps,  i-Boating has you covered.

Advanced instrumentation(Wind, Sonar depth, temperature, GPS over NMEA) now available for Android devices

We are pleased to announce that our latest update for Android now includes support for Advanced instrumentation:

• NMEA over TCP/UDP: Now, you can connect to your instruments over TCP as well as UDP.
• GPS over NMEA: If you would like to use external GPS or if your device does not have a built in GPS, the app can now read GPS data from your instruments.
• Wind direction: The application also shows the wind direction as yellow arrow next to the  current location. To view wind direction on the map, you must tap on Auto Follow. Otherwise it is just shows as text on top of the map.
• Wind speed
• Sonar depth
• Water temperature

You can find more details at the link below:

• Advanced Instruments user guide for i-Boating