Android plotter app recommend?

[iantomlinson]

Just bought a Samsung tab with unlimited and glonass. Looking at using also for backup plotter so looking at my harbour but seen warning signs from Google grabing basxxxxards and terms which seem to be screwing them over. any ideas of a basic chart plotter app for android????

 

[davethedog]

Navionics...

 

[Pye_End]

visit my harbour and Marine Navigator.

 

[Minerva]

OpenCPN. The free one is bobbins. The paid one (~£7 from memory) is great. One off payment / doesn’t include charts tho. Think I use O charts.

 

[BCsailor]

OpenCPN (Dave Register version, 1-time payment). Takes a wide variety of charts. O-Charts are updated regularly and a reasonable price.

Bit of a learning curve (some say "too much") but it does way more than other systems.

 

[Tranona]

As a backup KISS Navionics. As a primary there are others that can provide more.

 

[Plum]

visit my harbour and Marine Navigator.

Agree. Been using for 8 years.
visitMyHarbour.com Articles

 

[Sticky Fingers]

If you like Admiralty raster charts then take a look at Memory Map as an alternative to VMH. All UK charts for £25 per year.

 

[Bristolfashion]

A vote for Navionics plus Admiralty charts on memory map.

There was an issue with Marine Navigator not being available in the app store - check you're happy with the "work around" before going down that route.

You can put Navionics on 2 devices - surprisingly useful for ad hoc planning (i.e. in the pub)

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Agree, that's my preferred combo too. I also use the free version of Orca as (a) it includes Europe and (b) it includes a simple AIS overlay.

 

[Alicatt]

Navionics Boating App
and Waterkarten for the inland waterways of Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France, it also has a AIS overlay from the interwebs

 

[Refueler]

Navionics...

Yep .. absolutely ...

Navionics Boating and Lakes ........... not only is it full on - but also provides routes / w-points etc etc to your main plotter if you have.

I have not only 'consumer' nav - but also professional and TBH - the tablet and Navionics gets used most.

 

[iantomlinson]

I thought I'd seen something about a third party screwing over the myharbour app and making it complicated for them/us??

 

[Sticky Fingers]

I thought I'd seen something about a third party screwing over the myharbour app and making it complicated for them/us??

Yes it’s self-inflicted by the author / developer of Marine Navigator.

 

[Sandy]

I am not a fan of tablets for anything! Especially on a small boat.

On my Android phone I have the free version of ORCA for when I am out with pals and might want to look at what they are doing. It is only of use where I can get a signal; near the hard bits. At other times I just use a GPS tracker and download that at home.

 

[iantomlinson]

Seems like you only get a signal from towers instead of glonass stuff.

 

[Refueler]

Seems like you only get a signal from towers instead of glonass stuff.

What tablet did you get ? Most Android have GPS - you just need to enable it in settings.

Its iPads that have the silly non GPS stuff !!

 

[iantomlinson]

I sensibly bought a samsung a9+ which has glonass. It has satellite signals so not from towers. So I can navigate from satellites on charts. That is the proper way to do chartplotting.

 

[Refueler]

I sensibly bought a samsung a9+ which has glonass. It has satellite signals so not from towers. So I can navigate from satellites on charts. That is the proper way to do chartplotting.

You keep saying Glonass ... which is the Russian system ...
Your Samsung should be able to receive :

GPS, Glonass, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

 

[iantomlinson]

Correct. I'm a few years out of date. My thinking is sate,lites instead of masts..