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 The 2011 Paris boat Show release 12.0 is
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Integration
of the STW marinas database,
Tracks analysis , etc...
List new features
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With
ScanNav,
prepare your next coming cruises at home by examining maps in all their
details, create waypoints, routes, calculate distances, ... When back
from navigation, continue enjoying your trip by analyzing all details
of your track that will have been memorized on your pc.
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Charts
workshop :
You can use standard commercial charts (ENC S57, Navionics, BSB,
Softcharts, ...) and you can also create your own charts from a simple
desktop scanner, or correct any existing raster charts. All types of
charts, commercial or personal, can be mixed in a single library, they
will all be managed seamlessly and automatically.
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Navigation
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Plug any GPS and your other instruments (NMEA standard), and your boat
will be positioned real time on the map, keeping track of all your
movements and giving you all navigation information.
Optional Modules let you watch other vessels with the AIS module, get
and display weather forecasts in GRIB format, or display SHOM Tidal
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These are the Official
vector charts issued directly from the different nations' Hydrographic
Offices, according to the SOLAS convention for human
safety at sea.
They are available by predefined packs or by custom selection of
individual charts, and can be downloaded with an Internet connection |
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Navionics charts
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These are private vector charts,
edited by Navionics and packaged by area
on SD-Cards or CF-Cards.
They are supported in ScanNav starting from version 8.0
and upper.
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These are private raster chart
scanned by Maptech from the original
paper charts. They are packaged by area available on DVD or CD rom. |
| Charts
workshop : |
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Besides
the support of the different types of standard charts, ScanNav
lets you build your own digital maps from your paper charts. A simple
desktop scanner is sufficient, the charts workshop integrated in
ScanNav will do the stitching of the different scanned pieces, and the
georeferencement of the result in latitude/longitude.
You
can also use the charts workshop to correct existing charts so as to
have up to date charts and navigate safely
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| Preparing
your next cruise |
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At
home, examine your maps in all their details, and determine your next
holidays cruise. Create waypoints, routes, calculate bearings and
distances, determine your stops... ScanNav gives you all the necessary
drawing and calculation tools to prepare you to the best for your trip.
If
you do not wish to bring your PC on board, you will be able with a
single click to transfer your prepared waypoints and routes to most
existing GPS
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| Consult
databases to determine your stops |
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Integration
of the Mediterranean Guide
ScanNav
and the Guide Méditerranée are interfaced
so you can consult the guide by clicking on the chart in ScanNav, or
position ScanNav at the corresponding location on the chart directly
from the guide's web page.
Consultation
can be done online, or your can get a CD-rom from
the editor, that will let you consult pages locally without
needing an internet connection.
The
Guide Manche
and Guide Atlantique
are also available on the same principle, for the Channel and Atlantic
areas.
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Integration of the STW marinas database:
An
agreement with the association "Sail The World" (stw.fr), to integrate
their marinas evaluation database, lets you consult, or add your own
evaluations, directly from ScanNav, and without needing an internet
connection, except for updates. For a detailed description and
documentation please refer to the pdf
documentation (documentation only available in french for now)
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Ready
to Navigate
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On
your boat, connect your GPS to your PC, and you will see your boat
moving on the chart in real time, with an immediate estimation of where
you will be in a certain time using the heading line graduated in time
periods. You also have access to all navigation parameters, such as
heading, speed, remaining distance, estimated arrival time, etc...
You
can also view (and memorize) any other instruments such as the sound,
wind indicator, compass, loch in adapted repeaters. All calculated
information may also be output to external NMEA displays, and you can
interface the auto-pilot.
You
can choose to follow a previously created route, or navigate to a
single waypoint, alarms will warn you of any cross track error, arrival
on waypoints, proximity of danger areas... You can mark instant
waypoints such as MOB, fishing spots, anchor areas, or any other
events. You can also associate photographs to waypoints.
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"Seamless"
management of charts:
You just tell once to ScanNav where your maps are on your disk (or
CD-ROM), he will then manage them automatically to show the best fitted
chart(s) on screen according to current location and scale level.
Several maps may be combined together automatically so as to cover the
whole screen, even if at different scales. You will therefore never
have a partial blank screen even if navigating on borders of the map.
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Level: SNTides / SHOMAR |
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ScanNav
includes in standard the SNTides water height module, based on SHOMAR calculation
kernel (©
SHOM 2010 - France - Contrat n° 114/2010), therefore insuring a perfect
security (precision identical to the paper atlas for French coasts),
with also a worldwide coverage (1075 sites worldwide, including 150 in
mainland France and 42 on the French coast overseas)
View
instantly the height over a sound at a given time, instantly determine
the hours of crossing thresholds based on your draft and keel
clearance, etc... Interective graphic curves, and/or text
tables.
Click here for detailed
specifications
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| Tidal
Currents module |
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ScanNav
handles tidal information by overlapping tidal currents on your map for
any time, according to the hour and amplitudes of tides. It is also
interfaced with the WXTide third party software to show heights of
tides.
The
data to calculate currents are originated from the SHOM (authorization
n° 30/2005).
Click here for details on
available currents areas.
In this version, only French coasts (Including the Channel) are
available.
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| A.I.S.
Module (Automatic
Identification System) |
an A.I.S. transponder (transmitter)
is obligatory on all ships above 300tx |
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simple
AIS receiver Connected to your pc will give you
information on ships in a range of 25NM (VHF antenna). Position,
heading, speed, rate of turn every 30 seconds and more complete
information such as the name, status, type of vessel, destination...
every 6 minutes. |
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Detected
boats are shown on the map and/or in a text list logging all
their information. ScanNav manages an anti-collision
system with visual and/or audible alarms according the other vessels
routes compared to your own.
All displayed items and alarms are fully customisable.
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| GRIB
module: Overlay Weather Forecasts |
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Using
standard GRIB files
ScanNav lets you overlay weather forecasts ( Wind, pressure,
swell, precipitations, temperatures) directly on your map. GRIB files
can be downloaded using regular cell phones when in covered area, or
using satellite or BLU (emission/reception) connections when in the
great blue.
World
scale (grid step around 50nm) GRIB files originated from the Noaa can
be downloaded free.
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| Back
from your cruise |
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ScanNav
keeps
track of every information issued from your GPS or
other connected instruments, and therefore gives you a graphical
journal, letting you analyze your trip in all its details (doesn't
substitute to the obligatory legal paper journal)
If
you didn't bring your pc onboard or if it was off during navigation,
you still can after your trip download tracks from most current gps, so
as to visualize and analyze them in ScanNav.
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Google-Earth
interoperability
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You
can capture Google-Earth screen-shots, and include and georeference the
result in ScanNav within seconds using the charts workshop, so as to
incorporate as an additional navigation aid.
You
can also export your tracks, routes and waypoints to view them in
Google Earth. This can be very usefull for example to send your tracks
to your friends for them to review after a cruise, if they don't have a
version of ScanNav.
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| View
Aerial photographs as maps |
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With
the MrSid file format support, you can use aerial photographs of the
French coasts, or satellite photographs (world coverage), both available
free on Internet. Although not real navigation maps,
they constitute a good additional navigation aid, as they are very
precise, and give you another vision of the coasts and nature of the
bottom. (click here for more details)
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A
library of waypoints associated to oblique photographic views of most
harbors and splits of France is also provided free of charge (origin
SHOM, precision 1 minute of arc)
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| Terrestrial
use |
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ScanNav
also
supports UTM and Lambert projections and is therefore also adapted for
terrestrial cartography and use (excursion, mountain bike, car,
agriculture, ...)
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