AngelNav

AngelNav is a new app for iOS developed in collaboration with Tom Cunliffe. Primarily it is a full chart plotter currently favouring raster charts, but it has many additional features including the ability to carry out traditional navigation directly on the screen.

The capacity to generate classical chart work is vitally important in the event of a GPS failure, but hitherto has required pencil, plotters, and paper charts. AngelNav allows traditional techniques to be carried out using an iPad or iPhone screen instead of a paper chart. An estimated position can be plotted, position lines drawn from sighted bearings and fixes recorded. Course-to-steer diagrams are readily constructed.

AngelNav can read most types of raster chart including the UKHO subscription charts, as well as KAP/BSB files and GeoTIFF files. It can easily create georeferenced satellite charts for offline use.

AngelNav can take GNSS navigation data from a variety of sources, including the device's stand-alone GPS, the boat's NMEA over WiFi, and SignalK. It will also display AIS information if available.

Annual subscriptions are available as in-app purchases for UKHO, SHOM, and Imray charts covering the whole of the UK, France, Spain, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. These are divided into folios so that you can subscribe only to the charts that you need.

The app is free to use in its basic form, with additional functions and charts available as in-app purchases. This allows a user to fully evaluate the app without charge, and then to purchase the features and charts required.

Free features:

Chart plotter (Demo chart included)
Traditional navigation techniques
Waypoints and Routes
Track recording and display
Reads navigational data
Simulation mode

Paid for features (in-app purchases):

Open KAP/BSB files
Open GeoTIFF files
Open Satellite charts
Display AIS targets (if AIS information is available)
Tidal information for the British Isles

Subscription Charts:

Charts derived from UKHO data covering the coastal waters of the British isles, the Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal including the Atlantic islands.
SHOM charts of the coasts of France
Imray charts of of the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and others

Key features:

Brand new app written from the ground up
Carry out traditional navigation techniques on screen
Free to download to for evaluation, with in-app purchases to add only the features required
Frequent updates of subscription charts including handling of notice to mariners
Custom keyboard for entry of waypoint latitude and longitude
Open KPA/BSB and GeoTIFF files (in-app purchase required)
Create Satellite charts for off line use (in-app purchase required)
Display AIS targets on the chart (in-app purchase required)

NOTE: The continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life