Resubscribing costs 50% of the original card cost, which is similar to what replacing a card used to cost, or you can buy a new one and get all new collateral data too. When you buy a new Navionics Gold or Platinum+ card you just need to register it and start the Freshest Data program within two months, which lasts for a year. The bit of UGC I created for the Aegean hasn’t yet showed up on my Navionics HD iPad app - though that’s also improved recently, adding geo-located Pilot info PFDs for instance - but maybe that’s the “degraded performance” Navionics is warning about?īut let’s be patient and, besides, all this goodness doesn’t really come at extra cost if you were the sort of navigator who updated their chart cards annually. But I love having all these charts for armchair cruising or checking out a spot like North Coronado Island which came up sadly last week. The PC app has evolved nicely since I first saw it, but it’s not meant for navigation, and the syncing of routes “across all my devices” still isn’t working for me. And since Gold regions are much larger than Platinum ones, you might end up with the massive chart portfolio I’ve accrued… You get to it via the same Navionics World program shown above, and the surprise it that the voucher you get with a new card can be used to download any Gold chart region. In fact, they announced an expansion of UGC into user-collected depth files in Miami which I intend to learn more about, but let’s look at the PC app I mentioned. It’s noteworthy that C-Map just went and fixed it, but then again Navionics has sure been busy with a total rebuild of their data collection and distribution system. I think that Raymarine’s new e- and c-Series are the only MFDs that will show it right now, and the detailed interface to the data needs refining, but isn’t this the first time that crowd sourced data - CW article here - has gotten all the way to a dedicated navigation device?Ĭamden is a somewhat messy example of UGC these days because the town-maintained Outer Harbor channel buoys that got badly charted by NOAA in 2010 (still not fixed!) are now charted by Navionics and show above along with the UGC buoys that actually are more correct and got there first. Yes indeed, Navionics is now loading user generated data onto chart cards and when I put a freshened one into the test Raymarine e7 with the “Community Layer” turned on, there’s all the Camden Harbor UGC that used to be only visible on a Navionics mobile or PC app.
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