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Friday, May 3, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024
New nautical chart in West Australia paves the way for digital format
From SpatialSource by jnally
The navigation chart for Quinns Rocks in Perth has become the first to be converted to a new digital format under the WA Department of Transport’s (DoT) digital transformation of its nautical chart series.
The previous manually produced chart for Quinns Rocks was last re-issued in 2011.
The development comes after the successful completion of a pilot program, paving the way for more frequent updates of the state’s nautical charts and for future online interactive maps.
“The most beneficial change is the speed at which we can update a digital format chart; previously it took up to six months for a full chart revision, but now it will only take a couple of weeks, meaning skippers will have access to more up-to-date information more often, significantly enhancing safety on the water,” said DoT Maritime Executive Director, Chris Mather.
The navigation chart for Quinns Rocks in Perth has become the first to be converted to a new digital format under the WA Department of Transport’s (DoT) digital transformation of its nautical chart series.
The previous manually produced chart for Quinns Rocks was last re-issued in 2011.
The development comes after the successful completion of a pilot program, paving the way for more frequent updates of the state’s nautical charts and for future online interactive maps.
“The most beneficial change is the speed at which we can update a digital format chart; previously it took up to six months for a full chart revision, but now it will only take a couple of weeks, meaning skippers will have access to more up-to-date information more often, significantly enhancing safety on the water,” said DoT Maritime Executive Director, Chris Mather.
zoom on Quinns Rocks
The pilot digital program was the key recommendation of a review of the production and distribution of DoT’s nautical charts to provide a plan to best meet the future needs of the State’s boating community.
“This initial success lays the foundation for the conversion of the remaining 57 nautical charts for waters off the WA coastline and the future release of web-delivered dynamic maps with the most up-to-date information to keep mariners safe,” Mr Mather said.
“Significant work is involved in transforming DoT’s entire library of charts to the new format. DoT will soon begin work on the conversion of the neighbouring chart for waters off Trigg Beach, then move to areas where there have been recent changes to the sea floor such as Carnarvon.”
“This initial success lays the foundation for the conversion of the remaining 57 nautical charts for waters off the WA coastline and the future release of web-delivered dynamic maps with the most up-to-date information to keep mariners safe,” Mr Mather said.
“Significant work is involved in transforming DoT’s entire library of charts to the new format. DoT will soon begin work on the conversion of the neighbouring chart for waters off Trigg Beach, then move to areas where there have been recent changes to the sea floor such as Carnarvon.”
zoom on Fremantle
DoT-produced nautical charts are available for a large portion of the WA coastline and are free to download.
Links :
- MySailing : Digital chart for Quinns Rocks in WA
Sunday, March 24, 2024
France & misc. (SHOM) layer update in the GeoGarage platform
195 nautical raster charts updatedsee GeoGarage news
Friday, March 8, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
New model based on Artificial Intelligence available in SailGrib/Weather4D mobile apps : ECMWF_AI_25
As of this morning, the European Computing Centre (CEP/ECMWF) has published its forecasting model based on artificial intelligence.
This model is available in SailGrib Android and Weather4D Routing & Navigation iOS (update 2.0.88) mobile apps under the name ECMWF AI 025.
Please note that this model is currently experimental.
Please note that this model is currently experimental.
ECMWF IFS forecasts at 0.25° resolution
Its forecasts extend to 15 days in 6-hour steps.
It is available at 09:00 and 21:00 UTC.
This is the first artificial intelligence-based model whose forecasts are available.
In addition, the European Computing Centre's physics-based forecast model (ECMWF 025) is now available with a 0.25° mesh (≃27km) instead of 0.40° (≃43km).
It is always updated twice a day.
Its forecasts extend to 10 days in 3-hour steps.
It is available at 08:00 and 20:00 UTC.
Another new experimental model from ECMWF based on Machine Learning is also available :
AIFS model 0.25°, 15-days, available 4x day, approx. 8:50/13:50/20:50/01:50 UTC.
Links :
- ECMWF : ECMWF unveils alpha version of the new ML model / First update to the AIFS
- MeteoSuisse (in French) : Prévision et IA (Intelligence Artificielle) en toute transparence ?
- OpenMeteo : ECMWF IFS Upgraded to 0.25° Resolution
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Norway (NHS) layer update in the GeoGarage platform
73 nautical raster charts updated
see GeoGarage news
"The Seven Sisters" is located on the northern side of Geirangerfjorden,
and directly across the fjord lies a single waterfall called "The Suitor".
The legend of the seven sisters is that they dance playfully down the mountain.
Meanwhile, across the fjord, the suitor (or courter) flirts playfully with them from afar.
This footage is taken in early summer when the snow melting from the high mountain peaks are making the waterfalls bigger and more majestic.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
France & misc. (SHOM) layer update in the GeoGarage platform
158 nautical raster charts updated (including 13 new editions whose example above with chart 7143)
see GeoGarage news
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Primar reaches milestone proposing more than 20,000 vector nautical charts in the ENC world catalogue
Worldwide coverage
20,034 ENC from scale 1:500 to 1:20,000,000
for visualizing worldwide ENCs of the Primar catalogue with the Google Earth application
last brand new ENC produced (28/11/2023 edition : 1)
Today marks a significant milestone as Primar released the twenty thousandth ENC cell.
The PRIMAR database now proudly houses 20,034 ENC cells
note : 633 cells have been replaced and/or withdrawn since 2004-02-22
IHO membership :
in green IHO member states / in yellow Non member coastal state
79 international IHO Hydrographic Offices in the Primar catalogue
but a couple of Hydrographic Offices (available in the AVCS Admiralty catalogue) are missing :
- LK - Sri Lanka : 7 ENCs
- MM - Myanmar : 4 ENCs
- TH - Thailand : 40 ENCs
For info, it's worth noting that some countries don't deliver the same data to Primar and UKHO
Ex.: (Primar vs AVCS UKHO)
- Indonesia ID (539 vs 581 cells including 56 less / 14 more) ...
- China CN/C1 (504 CN vs 41 CN cells but 0 C1 vs 499 C1 cells)
- Vietnam VN/V1/V2 (72 V1 vs 4 V1 cells / 13 VN vs 0 VN cells / 0 V2 vs 44 V2 cells)
By the way, some GB ENCs (97 cells) created with mixed copyrights between UKHO, and other international Hydrographic offices or organisms are not available in the Primar catalogue.
Actually, UKHO receives ENCs from IC-ENC and PRIMAR RENCs but also directly from national
hydrographic offices who do not want to distribute their ENCs via a
RENC (Primar or IC-ENC), and provides ENC services for the end user.
Today, the Primar ENC catalogue now exceeds 17,000 ENCs (17,019 worldwide references of official @IHOhydro nautical vector charts).
— GeoGarage (@geogarage) July 1, 2020
see coverage on Google Earth on the GeoGarage platformhttps://t.co/ZuSV6F9Iuh pic.twitter.com/aCRoVFEuyw
From 2020 to 2023 : more than 3,000 new ENC (17,000 to 20,000)
Note : the GeoGarage platform is an official Primar ENC distributor especially for onshore applications (so not for SOLAS navigation) used in a local network solution for some limited number of concurrent users in a closed environment.
Links :
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
A new layer in the GeoGarage platform : Netherlands nautical charts based on rasterized ENC material from NLHO
Availability of a new dedicated layer for Netherlands with NLHO rasterized ENCs (full catalogue)
so 19 ENC for : Saint Martin (NL part) / Saba / Sint Eustatius / Aruba / Curaçao / Bonaire
Until today, the GeoGarage platform used the raster chart material (RNC) provided by NLHO display nautical charts for the Netherlands areas.
For internal management reasons specific to NLHO, the Netherlands Hydrographic Office has made some technical changes to deliver updates to their commercial licensees (whose GeoGarage) causing us problems to deliver updates for our customers in our chain of processes.
The GeoGarage platform was already in the capacity to deliver a rasterized visualization of Electronic Navigation Chart (vector ENC) through their web services (WMTS) for their B2B customers involved in webmapping and other onshore GIS activities.
Today, the GeoGarage platform is ready to propose the visualization of official ENC to their customers using mobile navigation apps (non SOLAS) so Weather 4D Routing and Navigation on iOS and SailGrib on Android.
For internal management reasons specific to NLHO, the Netherlands Hydrographic Office has made some technical changes to deliver updates to their commercial licensees (whose GeoGarage) causing us problems to deliver updates for our customers in our chain of processes.
The GeoGarage platform was already in the capacity to deliver a rasterized visualization of Electronic Navigation Chart (vector ENC) through their web services (WMTS) for their B2B customers involved in webmapping and other onshore GIS activities.
Today, the GeoGarage platform is ready to propose the visualization of official ENC to their customers using mobile navigation apps (non SOLAS) so Weather 4D Routing and Navigation on iOS and SailGrib on Android.
In consequence, the GeoGarage platform no longer offers a subscription to Netherlands Raster maps for Netherlands on its e-commerce platform for mobile apps.
However, the Netherlands RNC subscription will continue for their current mobile customers until its expiry date (visible on your W4D R&N/Sailgrib application) but will not be automatically renewed on this date.
The RNC plan is replaced by a new layer based on ENC type maps edited by the Netherlands Hydrographic Office (NLHO), and rasterized for W4D/Sailgrib : Netehrlands (derived from NLHO ENC)
The price of the annual subscription (24.99 EUR) remains the same.
However, the Netherlands RNC subscription will continue for their current mobile customers until its expiry date (visible on your W4D R&N/Sailgrib application) but will not be automatically renewed on this date.
The RNC plan is replaced by a new layer based on ENC type maps edited by the Netherlands Hydrographic Office (NLHO), and rasterized for W4D/Sailgrib : Netehrlands (derived from NLHO ENC)
The price of the annual subscription (24.99 EUR) remains the same.
So
Weather4D R&N and Sailgrib users (with last updated versions) can
right now display the whole catalogue of NLHO ENC (166 ENC at this time),
with a half-yearly updating process : see GeoGarage news
Today, in this first version, the vector ENC are displayed using a graphical rendering similar to the one used in official ECDIS (s-52 IHO specifications)
: they are not to be used for shipping navigation (IMO SOLAS), but only
for recreative use, not as a primary tool for navigation.
Effectively, in contrast to the use in ECDIS, there is no possibility -today with the W4D/SailGrib current version- to ask for text info and details regarding any navigational objects (beacon, buoy, marks...).
Effectively, in contrast to the use in ECDIS, there is no possibility -today with the W4D/SailGrib current version- to ask for text info and details regarding any navigational objects (beacon, buoy, marks...).
View of Amsterdam harbor with RNC chart
Same view of Amsterdam harbor with ENC chart
A new layer in the GeoGarage platform : Germany nautical charts based on rasterized ENC material from BSH
Nautical charts for Germany today which leads to the availability of a new dedicated layer for Germany with BSH rasterized ENCs Until today, the GeoGarage platform used the raster chart material (RNC) provided by BSH to display nautical charts for the German areas.
For internal management reasons specific to BSH, the Hydrographic Institute of Germany has made some technical changes to deliver updates to their commercial licensees (whose GeoGarage) causing us problems to deliver updates for our customers in our chain of processes.
The GeoGarage platform was already in the capacity to deliver a rasterized visualization of Electronic Navigation Chart (vector ENC) through their web services (WMTS) for their B2B customers involved in webmapping and other onshore GIS activities.
Today, the GeoGarage platform is ready to propose the visualization of official ENC to their customers using mobile navigation apps (non SOLAS) so Weather 4D Routing and Navigation on iOS and SailGrib on Android.
For internal management reasons specific to BSH, the Hydrographic Institute of Germany has made some technical changes to deliver updates to their commercial licensees (whose GeoGarage) causing us problems to deliver updates for our customers in our chain of processes.
The GeoGarage platform was already in the capacity to deliver a rasterized visualization of Electronic Navigation Chart (vector ENC) through their web services (WMTS) for their B2B customers involved in webmapping and other onshore GIS activities.
Today, the GeoGarage platform is ready to propose the visualization of official ENC to their customers using mobile navigation apps (non SOLAS) so Weather 4D Routing and Navigation on iOS and SailGrib on Android.
In consequence, the GeoGarage platform no longer offers a subscription to BSH Raster maps for Germany on its e-commerce platform for mobile apps.
However, the Germany RNC subscription will continue for their current mobile customers until its expiry date (visible on your W4D R&N/Sailgrib application) but will not be automatically renewed on this date.
The RNC plan is replaced by a new layer based on ENC type maps edited bythe German Hydrographic Service (BSH), and rasterized for W4D/Sailgrib : Germany (derived from BSH ENC)
The price of the annual subscription (24.99 EUR) remains the same.
However, the Germany RNC subscription will continue for their current mobile customers until its expiry date (visible on your W4D R&N/Sailgrib application) but will not be automatically renewed on this date.
The RNC plan is replaced by a new layer based on ENC type maps edited bythe German Hydrographic Service (BSH), and rasterized for W4D/Sailgrib : Germany (derived from BSH ENC)
The price of the annual subscription (24.99 EUR) remains the same.
So Weather4D R&N and Sailgrib users (with last updated versions) can right now display the whole catalogue of BSH ENC (298 ENC at this time), with a half-yearly updating process : see GeoGarage news
Today, in this first version, the vector ENC are displayed using a graphical rendering similar to the one used in official ECDIS (s-52 IHO specifications) : they are not to be used for shipping navigation (IMO SOLAS), but only for recreative use, not as a primary tool for navigation.
Effectively, in contrast to the use in ECDIS, there is no possibility -today with the W4D/SailGrib current version- to ask for text info and details regarding any navigational objects (beacon, buoy, marks...).
Effectively, in contrast to the use in ECDIS, there is no possibility -today with the W4D/SailGrib current version- to ask for text info and details regarding any navigational objects (beacon, buoy, marks...).
View of Hamburg harbor with RNC chart
Same view of Hamburg harbor with ENC chart
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
France & misc. (SHOM) layer update in the GeoGarage platform
174 nautical raster charts updated
see GeoGarage news
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Russian ENC (Northern part)
Info from Primar, RENC distributor (04.10.2023) :
"Due to circumstances outside of PRIMAR control, PRIMAR is forced to stop sales of Russian (Northern Area) ENCs with immediate effect.Until further notice, new Russian (Northern Area) ENCs and updates will no longer be delivered to PRIMAR."
Primar catalog 27/09/2023archive picture issue from weekly updated kmz Primar catalogue file from GeoGarage platform
Primar catalog 04.10.2023
picture issue from weekly updated kmz Primar catalogue file from GeoGarage platform
479 ENC from Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography
Russian Federation Navy (GUNIO) have disappeared in Primar catalogue
Russian Federation Navy (GUNIO) have disappeared in Primar catalogue
UMPORTANT : update (05/10/2023)
Regarding the stopping of sales of Russian (Northern Area) ENCs.
PRIMAR is pleased to inform that the sale and delivery of updates will resume as normal, effective immediately Oct. 5th, 2023..
Monday, September 4, 2023
Globalstar enlists Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch satellites for Apple's iPhone SOS feature
Globalstar, a Covington-based communications company, has been selected to serve as the satellite operator for Apple’s new emergency SOS service
From NOLA
Globalstar has enlisted Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch a host of satellites it will use to provide a communications network for an emergency Apple iPhone feature, the Covington satellite technology firm said Thursday in a federal filing.
The satellites will support the emergency SOS services Globalstar is providing to Apple’s iPhones.
The feature allows iPhone 14 users to tap into satellite networks to send messages or calls if they are far away from cell towers.
Globalstar bought those satellites in February 2022 from Canadian company Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Corp. for $327 million.
Apple loaned Globalstar $252 million to help finance that purchase.
This isn’t the first time Musk’s launch company has helped Globalstar.
Last year, SpaceX helped Globalstar launch a satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Globalstar made waves earlier this week when it announced it would hire Paul Jacobs, a Silicon Valley darling and former Qualcomm executive, as its CEO.
Links :
- MacRumors : Elon Musk's SpaceX to Launch Satellites for Apple's Emergency SOS Feature on iPhones
- 9to5mac : SpaceX sending iPhone Emergency SOS satellites to space for Apple partner Globalstar
- Apple Insider : Globalstar taps SpaceX to launch Apple's Emergency SOS satellites
- Barrons : Globalstar Satellites Could Score for Small Devices, IoT, Says New Boss
- Techcrunch : Apple-backed Globalstar inks $64M launch contract with SpaceX / Supported iPhones in the US and Canada can now contact emergency services via satellite
- GeoGarage blog : Apple plans to add satellite features to iPhones for emergencies
Friday, July 28, 2023
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