Marine GeoGarage ushers in a new era of nautical mapping services with the launch of its marine charts portal, a "Google Maps for mariners" built on Cloud Computing technology.
http://marine.geogarage.com/routes
Today more than 4571 electronic charts (7994 including sub-charts) are available in the GeoGarage servers; additional layers are in preparation.
The big advantage of this Cloud solution is that all the layers are kept updated regularly so the user is sure to visualize recent documents.
But the web site is not only a seamless chart viewer overlaying charts at different scales on aerial and satellite imagery from Google Maps.
It also allows the user to plot waypoints and to prepare some navigation routes which can be saved in his account after free registering and uploaded to GPS (in gpx format or directly to Garmin GPS via its Communicator web plugin).
The web site is the world's first online nautical map service allowing to display maps coming from different international Hydrographic Services.
Today the catalogue of charts regroups :
Today the catalogue of charts regroups :
- some nautical charts layers from : SHN (Argentina), Wavey Line (Bahamas), NLHO (Netherlands), BSH (Germany)
- but Marine GeoGarage's web interface also gives site visitors viewing access to some 'private raster charts' from :
- but Marine GeoGarage's web interface also gives site visitors viewing access to some 'private raster charts' from :
UKHO (UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia, Oman, Portugal, Spain, Iceland, South Africa, Malta), CHS (Canada), AHS (Australia), France (SHOM)
accessible via some monthly 'Chart Premium' subscription (9.9 €/month), due to royalty fees required by these Hydrographic Services.
Today more than 4571 electronic charts (7994 including sub-charts) are available in the GeoGarage servers; additional layers are in preparation.
The big advantage of this Cloud solution is that all the layers are kept updated regularly so the user is sure to visualize recent documents.
But the web site is not only a seamless chart viewer overlaying charts at different scales on aerial and satellite imagery from Google Maps.
It also allows the user to plot waypoints and to prepare some navigation routes which can be saved in his account after free registering and uploaded to GPS (in gpx format or directly to Garmin GPS via its Communicator web plugin).
Some universal iPhone/iPad applications tied to the GeoGarage are also available on the AppStore.