Boating Asia&Africa app for iPhone and iPad
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Boating Marine & Lakes is a favorite among cruisers, anglers, sailors, and divers, with the same detailed charts and advanced features as on the best GPS plotters.
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Pros and cons of Boating Asia&Africa app for iPhone and iPad
Boating Asia&Africa app good for
This version does screen updates and scrolling on my iPhone4 at a very acceptable rate. Im no longer in New Zealand so wont be putting the app through its paces on the water any time soon. I expect the charting is up to the usual high Navionics standards. The screen update speed was my biggest gripe with version 1.1.6. I have not tested how the speed of downloading chart sections is in this version. Hopefully the crashing problems with the previous version are now a thing of the past.
Youll want to see reviews from people who are using the app heavily.
I had bought this pack 2 years ago when it was Australasia. When they took out Australia & NZ to a separate app I wasnt too happy about losing access to the maps I use. I contacted them & once they saw my receipt for it they gifted me the new app. Because they have account syncing all my data transferred without a hitch. Thats good customer service.
I use it on my iphone and ipad very easy to use complete map of kuwait gulf and islands
Some bad moments
Navionics behaves very irresponsible- without informing us they removed the HK charts. First they claimed that they will have a major upgrade. Later they admitted that they do not own the license to use the digital charts. If you upgrade your plotter the charts will also be gone. No idea which other areas they also publish illegally.
Map totally tied to the actual coordinates. The latter route is recorded in a few islands. Unfortunately the standard Google maps work much more precisely: (
Crashing and loosing the data are the biggest problem
Limited number of icons is another issue
you cannot download the entire charts you paid for, you have to do it individually. i tried it: after ~50 downloads you no longer see which charts are already downloaded and which are not. no idea what to do now. as long as navionics does not allow to download all purchased charts at once do NOT buy this app - its useless!
Australia and New Zealand removed after I paid for them. Now I have to pay more? And you think I wanted Asia and Africa. This is lousy.
I bought this app thinking it would also work on the ipad like other region Navionics apps but i was suprised that i will have to pay +$64 to get the ipad version!! I already paid $38.. THIS IS NOT FAIR. Can i pay the extra +$30 and get the ipad version instead? I need that version more than the iphone version
