Got a new Nexus 7 32gb for Xmas. Any suggestions/recommendations regarding navigation software? Looked at a few potentials but all seem to have their critics. Anyone using a new (2013) Nexus 7 for navigation? From what I can gather, Navionics only supports last years model. There are a few inexpensive apps, but, I'm just a little skeptical about just how accurate they might be.
Thanks for your input.
We've been experimenting with Jeppeson's plan2nav, which uses C-Map
vector charts. Free app, cheap charts, so far works well. And as others have said, Active Captain integrates in a way that makes all that info available offline.
We also started experimenting with MX mariner, which uses NOAA
raster charts here in the US. Cheap app, free charts, so far works well... and I e-mailed with the developer a few months ago about more frequent in-app chart updates (incorporating Notices to Mariners) and that's something he said he was working on.
(I also e-mailed with the Marine Navigator app developer about the same issue; his recommendation was just to use LNMs... which sort-of wasn't my point.)
Some have mentioned MaxSea on the iPad. Last I contacted MaxSea in France, they had no Android option... and a quick check on the Play store just now didn't turn one up. If they get a round tuit, that would certainly be a good choice for us, given that our plotter uses the MaxSea engine, and given that we also have Time Zero on both boat laptop and home desktop computer mostly for planning purposes. Add a GPS source, E Voila! Yet another backup...
The Nobeltec Time Zero thing is probably bound to be MaxSea. Also not on the Play store (at least that I can find). Probably reinforces that there's no Android version of MaxSea available. (Yet?)
Other useful apps have been about radar (Radar Now) and other weather (Marine Weather by Bluefin), tides, local weather (local TV stations) as well as Weather Underground, Accuweather, Weather Channel, etc.
-Chris