We are pleased to announce that i-Boating Web App for fishing and marine charts covering US & Canada is now publicly available. You can view it at the link below: i-Boating Web App Some of the features available in the web app. Complete coverage of US & Canada (Other regions coming soon) Switch background maps to Street Maps, USGS Satellite Imagery and more. Change depth unit to feet, meter or fathom Use distance bearing tool Display latitude, longitude under cross hairs Rotate maps using mouse or standard touch gesture (Text stays upright on rotation). If you would like to embed web maps on your website  or like to see more features, feel free to reach out to us .

We are pleased to announce that the latest version (20.0.0.0) of the Windows app for PCs/tablets/laptops etc now included supports for hardware/GPU accelerated vector marine & lake charts. We support all Windows devices running 8.1 or higher. Rotate marine charts (Text stays upright) Analog zoom GPU/Hardware accelerated Zoom up to as close as 5 ft Custom depth unit (ft, meter, fathom) Keyboard shortcuts for zoom, rotate, tilt  I've attached a few screenshots from a Windows tablet running the latest vector version.

We have made a huge addition to our coverage for Mediterranean and Atlantic. Effective immediately marine charts covering the following are available for Android & iOS devices. France Greece Turkey Italy Coverage is all vector/ENC for these regions.

We've pushed a major update to our folio that covers inland rivers and waterways in Europe. ENC/Vector cells covering the following major regions were added: Canal du Midi: Vector maps covering the entire length of Canal due Midi are now available for both iOS and Android. Rhone River: Now we complete coverage of Rhone river, south of Lyon, all the way to the coast. Canals and waterway around Berlin

i-Boating app now supports custom depth shading to highlight shallow areas. I've included a specific example at the end illustrating how to use and before/after screenshots. 1. Without depth shading 2. With depth shading 3. How I figured out what value to choose for shading? Before depth shading For e.g. this is what the default map looks for New Jersey inter coastal waterway.  There are two depth areas here (one below 2.95 ft and the other above it). When navigating you would want to highlight the shallow area with a different color. With depth shading Here is how to use depth shading: Tap menu/overflow button and select "Settings" Scroll down and check the box that says "Enable Custom Depth Shading" Change shallow depth to 0 ft and safety depth to 2.9f ft Tap Save Here is a screenshot with custom depth shading. How to figure out what value to use? You can use object query to find out depth range of an area. Simply long touch any wh...

We have recently added coverage for the following regions. I've also added a few screenshots for Lake Muritz at the end. Lake Muritz Lake Constance/Boodensee Odra river.... Please use the following steps to get this update: Delete old maps, (This step is important. New map cells are not downloaded if older ones exist). Re-download map cells. Deleting old maps Tap menu/overflow button on top right(for Android, its lower right for iPhone) and select "Settings" In settings screen, scroll down and tap on "Delete All Maps" Downloading new maps -Tap on download icon on top left on your  device.. This will show download grid. - Tap to select grid cells you wish to download.  If a grid cell is already downloaded it will show as green. - Tap "Press to Download

Viewing marine charts and fishing maps over satellite imagery and regular street maps was requested by several i-Boating customers. We are pleased to announce that the feature is now live on Android devices. (iOS version will become available upon Apple approval). We have provided multiple different sources (currently 10 sources) of basemaps for i-Boating customers to choose from including street maps, USGS Topos, USGS aerial, satellite imagery and more. Here is how to change the background maps: Tap menu/overflow button on top right and select "Settings" In Settings screen select "Refresh Available Sources" from the dropdown. Select one of the several background maps Tap on Save I've added a few screenshots with this in action from my Android phone (for Lake Constance/Bodensee and San Francisco Bay).