Recent content by ActiveCaptain

The iOS version of the new ActiveCaptain app is now available. Search "Garmin ActiveCaptain" in the app store. Tech support should be directed to tech support in the app or within Garmin. There's a whole team standing by to help there. Enjoy!

Rotate the phone to landscape mode? It works full screen for me.

But the app does support older chartplotters wherever it can now. The only time functionality isn't supported is when the chartplotter doesn't have the hardware needed to perform the function. I think the chart on Garmin's website showing compatibility is causing more harm than good. That...

The locator capability isn't available yet. It's part of the ActiveCaptain Companion apps and new API's for the 3rd party developers. There won't be any ability to manually enter your position - it has to come automatically. So while you're using the Companion to warn you over audio about...

eBoatCards isn't a forum at all. There is the ability to exchange info but in a Facebook sort of way. But it's not for that and it's certainly not something that is meant to replace forums like this. It's meant to augment forums with capabilities that will likely never appear in other ways...

The main issue is that the Canadian government won't allow us to display Canadian charts without a large fee. When I negotiated with CHS they wanted $60,000 upfront and $200 per user who accessed their charts. That's a pretty hard license to swallow when the website is free. There is data up...

I develop for both iOS and Android - DragQueen was the first simple app released. There's a major one coming. So I have both Android phones and tabs and iPhones/iPads. There are a lot of equivalent things about the different platforms. There is sort of no question that the iPad platform...

You know, I just want to say after re-reading the entire thread, that this wasn't my finest moment. I didn't handle it properly. I can give the excuse that we're attacked these days in ways you wouldn't imagine. I'm too quick to jump to the conclusion that this is another writer or publisher...

I'm sorry you found my response to be confrontational. I was born in NY, NY. I think of it as being direct and to the point so as not to waste time. I presented relevant facts to back up a debate about the quality of ActiveCaptain. Some feel that those facts were improper apparently after...

We're doing OK in the PNW. We've got a ton of anchorages and really good information. Marinas are starting to update their own information and there are some hazards (wicked current in some passages up there!). There's definitely a critical mass that's needed to fill out a particular area...

We take privacy very seriously. We don't disclose email addresses, names associated with any account, or other private information. But in the crowd-source world of data, the actions you perform and the input you make are not private. How could it be? The very act of writing a review...

Having just redone every piece of electronics in our boat in February, I can guarantee that the depth sounders were closely watched. And yes, sounder(s) - we have two of them mounted 12' across from one another. That provides an incredible tool for finding channels since it can easily and...

I've had multiple face-to-face meetings with McGraw-Hill about doing something similar. I've looked at all of the content available from the traditional guidebooks. In the end, I don't think either capability makes sense. My feeling is the the normal guidebooks have become so biased in their...

Oh come on. I just went from Florida to the Chesapeake along the ICW. Independent of the 30 or so updates to hazards that I made, most of the shoaling and other major hazards were all touched by one or more people in April 2012 or later. I used all of those updates myself in my own cruising -...

Oh gosh, no. It uses absolutely no internet access for it's function. There's no reason for accessing the internet when it's just showing how far you are from the anchor. It requires the use of a real GPS connected (usually internal) and does no triangulation or any other method of getting...