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GPU accelerated Marine Vector Maps for iOS

We are thrilled to announce our new   i-Boating iOS app for marine charts . It uses our recently engineered renderer that is capable of showing both vector (ENC/Shapefile/KML) as well as raster (BSB/KAP) data: end result is beautiful, detailed and fast charts rendering. Please download the marine & lake vector maps iOS client by clicking on the link below and give us your feedback. Download link for marine & lake vector maps iOS Main features of the i-Boating client. GPU accelerated : The new marine navigation map renderer has been re-implemented to take advantage of the Apple A7, A8, SGX 543, SGX 535 GPUs for rendering. This allows us to have high refresh rates (60 fps). Rotate maps using gestures : Just like Apple Maps, you can rotate maps using fingers. Text stays upright on rotation: Text rendering happens in GPU enabling high refresh rate for text rendering upon rotation. Analog zoom: Most maps client use digital zoom levels. For e.g. zooming in t...