.ics Format Tides for your Calendar.

[Mark-1]

I was looking for a way to add Portsmouth tide times to Google calendar and came across this gem:

http://tides.mobilegeographics.com/

Enter the location, and hit search. Right click on the 'subscribe' link and select "copy link location" to get the URL to get a link to an .ics file to import into a calendar application of your choice.

I've done Portsmouthfor 2014:
webcal://tides.mobilegeographics.com/ical/5067.ics

(If you use Google just just paste that URL into the "Add By URL" field.)

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Thanks, quite nice. Think I need a better calendar app tho. Never liked the standard Google one.

 

[markdj]

It's nice to have a standard port you can refer to on your phone. In google calendar, you can turn on and off the display of the tide depending on whether you need it or not.

Mark
http://www.stronge.org.uk
UK Weather Portal

 

[prv]

I have a tide app on my phone already, so I'm not sure how much I'd use this, but it's an interesting idea. Can someone post a screenshot of what it looks like?

Pete

 

[2nd_apprentice]

 

[2nd_apprentice]

The good thing about it seems to be that it doesn't require internet access like most tide apps. It just adds tidal data to your calendar, different ports would require setting up several calendar profiles however.

 

[Mark-1]

I have a tide app on my phone already, so I'm not sure how much I'd use this, but it's an interesting idea.

The reason I wanted tides on my calendar is that I'll see the HW time every day which will hopefully prompt me to get on the water more evenings when the clocks change. Which doesn't make much sense now I think about it because I drive past Langstone Harbour and that rarely triggers the "tide's in can go out tonight" reflex so I'm not sure why my calendar will.

 

[prv]

<Screenshots>

Cheers!

I think I've been spoiled by Imray's "Tides Planner" app for the last few years, such that I don't really think of tides in terms of the HW time any more. For a casual check I use the curve to instantly see when we can get on or off the berth, and roughly what it will be doing in Southampton Water. I don't think I'd find a list of high-water times particularly handy.

Pete

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Yeah, not too visual. Plenty of web based apps around but I still use this little DOS program when offline:

clunky interface, especially with a touchscreen but very accurate for most places.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Thanks Mark1 that's flipping brill. Imported in seconds to the ipad.

 

[sailorman]

I use UK Tides on the android

 

[jakeroyd]

Just did it for the whole year for Plymouth.
Mailed the ics file to myself and imported to my splanner (calender app on my samsung note 2)
Worked fine but it fills up your calendar so you can't see anything else.

So i deleted the events from splanner then impoted them into my google calendar.

This also shows by defrault on my samsung but i was then able to go into the my calendar bit of splanner and uncheck my google calendar.
This should work fine but i will need internet access to re-display it when i want to see it.

Have saved the link that shows you the whole year as an internet page as well.

Thankyou for an interesting link.

 

[jakeroyd]

ooh err.
just discovered that even if you do not display the google calendar by default you get a reminder of every hw,lw,sunrise and sunset by email to your gmail account.
To get rid of this you go to google calendar settings and remove the defaults