SailGrib WR adopts Geogarage maps

Collaboration is progressing between SailGrib and Weather4D. The recent version SailGrib WR 6.0 adds platform map support Geogarage including the international catalogs of SHOM and UKHO among around twenty publishers. These “tiled” raster maps are mostly based on digital data from official hydrographic services., be more than 10.000 maps available to date, and available on their interactive catalog.

Unlike the majority of private providers, Geogarage offers subscriptions by publisher, and not by geographic area (¹). These are renewable annual subscriptions allowing regular updates. The icing on the cake is pooling of subscriptions between Android and iOS devices : an account created on the Geogarage platform allows you to download the subscribed maps on an iPad with Weather4D Routing & Navigation and an Android smartphone with SailGrib WR, or conversely an Android tablet and an iPhone with their respective application, up to five different devices.

In the menu Preferences of SailGrib WR we implement the subscriptions subscribed in the section Cards. We first connect to the Geogarage account with the identifiers created when subscribing to the platform.

Once the connection is established, we select one of the subscribed files, which allows you to download the desired areas. Indeed, the cards are displayed instantly via the internet connection, but the download is essential to keep the maps offline.

The download takes place according to three levels of detail : Large = road and crossing maps, level the zoom 10, Coastal = coastal maps, level the zoom 15, Port = detailed maps of ports and anchorages, level the zoom 20. We drag the map under the predefined frames and start the download, for each desired level of detail, and we reproduce the operation for each part of the geographical area to be covered.

Fortunately, the download process is quite fast thanks to an efficient compression mechanism for the downloaded tiles.. This is an excellent novelty for SailGrib users who wish to regain the quality of official charts as an alternative to Navionics charts which are rather cumbersome to manage., especially for updates.

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(¹) With the exception of the private editor Imray
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