Simple Charts
By Derek Trauger & Associates, LLC
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Description
Simple Charts provides a simple easy-to-use chart plotting solution for your iPhone and iPad. Simple Charts is a full resolution seamless marine charting app compatible with both the iPhone and iPad. Simple Charts makes for the perfect marine charting companion for the cruiser, sailor, fisherman or anyone on the water. Save your fishing hotspot or any point of interest to return later to and / or share with a friend easily.
Key Features:
✓ Charts cover all U.S. coastal areas, the Great Lakes and several major river systems
✓ Charts are seamlessly stitched together to form a single seamless chart, zooming and out of an area automatically selects the correct chart.
✓ Chart tiles are automatically processed and updated every 7 days based on NOAA chart corrections.
✓ No Network. No Problem. Browsed maps and charts are downloaded and cached on the device as you browse them and are then available even without an active Internet connection.
✓ Add waypoints by tapping and holding the map or entering the waypoint coordinates
✓ View real-time information about saved waypoints including distance to waypoint, time to go, velocity made good, and more
✓ View real-time course information including latitude, longitude, heading and speed
✓ Share data with friends via Social Networks, SMS and Email
✓ View additional map overlays including Google's Satellite Imagery, OpenStreetMap Road Maps, and OpenTopoMaps
✓ Track your position in real-time
✓ Display course track on charts
✓ NOAA Weather Observations
✓ Latitude / Longitude Format: Decimal, DM (DD° mm.mmm') and DMS (DD° MM' ss.s") Coordinates
✓ Speed and Distance Units: Metric, Imperial and Nautical Units
✓ Ruler Functionality - Allows User to Measure Distance Between Two Points on Maps & Charts.
✓ Odometer / Distance Tracker Functionality
✓ Social Media Integration (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Others)
What's New in Version 1.91
-Added Distance & Heading Filter to Reduce Jitter
-Speed Bug Fix
-Heading Bug Fix (Landscape Orientation)
Customer Reviews
Best $10 I ever spent.
I would like to thank the developer of this app for his responsiveness. Every time I write a note regarding a problem with this program, I get a response from the developer. I have used this app in the St. Lawrence seaway (Thousand Islands), okeechobee canal in Florida (weak detail in the canal compared to the on board chart plotter and paper charts) and my home waters (CT shore) with satisfactory results. When I come across an area where the charts are not reading correctly, I inform the developer. I gave them a wish list for future development, and so far I got landscape functionality. I'm hoping to see the chart follow the boat soon so I don't have to keep centering it. I recommend it to anyone with an iPad and a boat. Keep up the good work with the functionality improvements. By the way fellow boaters, you can put your iPad in a ziplock bag to protect it from water spray and it still senses your touch.
Simple but fantastic
The best aspects of the app inclucde the accuracy of my location on the chart, how easy the app is to use and pick up with little to no instruction, how clean and clutter free the interface is, and how seamless the charts are able to switch to the most relevant chart for the area, not sure how they are doing this but it is pretty impressive. The app could use some better documentation on the not so clear features which would be my only complatint to date as I have My biggest surprise was how responsive the support team was to my questions and comments, within 2 hours one of the developers contacted me answering the questions I had mostly to do with how to add waypoints to the chart which after learning led me to a why didn't I think of that momment when I found that other than entering the coordinates you could also tap and hold the map to quickly add markers to exact points without being at that exact location.
Simple charts is a truely fantastic little app if you have ever been frustrated with the complexities of most chart plotters or charting apps in general you should look no further than this app.
Great nav app
I rated this 5 stars because it loaded on my I phone and I pad seamlessly for one price, it is simple to meet my needs, it covers all sections of the Wilderness Waterway, the internal waterway through the Everglades which some of the other apps didn't do and it is priced right. Nice, simple, no hassle app that works.
- $9.99
- Category: Navigation
- Updated: Apr 12, 2012
- Version: 1.91
- Size: 5.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Derek Trauger & Associates, LLC
- Copyright © 2011-2012 Derek Trauger & Associates
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
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