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.

1. Offline support: Designed for private internal use to run on your localhost even when offline
2. Change depth unit to feet, meter or fathom
3. Tile size can be customized to  256, 512 or 1024
4. Both http and https support
5. For https, add your own SSL certificate or use our bundled self-signed certificate
6. 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
7. Choose between Light and dark mode
8. Custom depth offset
9. Custom shading 
10. Option to use an offline basemap
11. 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. 

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.

• Download Offline Marine Charts
• Creating New WayPoints
• Auto Routing
• Chart & App Settings
• Manual Route Editing
• Marine Weather Forecasts
• GPS Features (Auto Follow, Record, Route Assistance, Goto WayPoint)

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

The steps are similar on Android, Windows & MacOS.

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.