I’ve just finished a complex marine navigation app utilizing hundreds of charts for Britain and Ireland.
The app is aimed at leisure sailors principally (for now) on iPad.
The app is very complex and includes:
Encryption of lots of large png files (the charts)
Complex maths to work out latitude and longitude on charts
More complex math to draw tide curves - lots of sin and cosine
Cloud import and export of routes and waypoints to/from PC applications
Reads/writes xml, csv and txt files
The app is also capable of using GPS for plotting location on a chart. However this is switched off in first releases which are for iPads that are wifi only.
Shortly I’ll release version with GPS and version for iPhone.
Android will follow, but windows is what sailors really need.
Sailors will plan passage on PC and transfer route to tablet. BRING IT ON
Happy to share promo code with anyone who can prove they are a sailor and a coronahead.
More at www.realcharts.net