iTouch Navionics

[LmannyR]

Got Navionics for iTouch yesterday. I'm impressed with the large amount of info availabe!! I wasn't sure if I wanted to get the navionics for my Huminbird SI. Now I'll get it for sure.

One complaint about the iTouch version is the gps refresh is extreamly slow!! It takes like 2 mins to refresh gps position. I tried it out on the road driving to work today. Maybe it needs a boat ride, yea that's a good excuse to go out soon.

 

[K-9]

:grin: Good sound reasoning,to the boat!

Got Navionics for iTouch yesterday. I'm impressed with the large amount of info availabe!! I wasn't sure if I wanted to get the navionics for my Huminbird SI. Now I'll get it for sure.

One complaint about the iTouch version is the gps refresh is extreamly slow!! It takes like 2 mins to refresh gps position. I tried it out on the road driving to work today. Maybe it needs a boat ride, yea that's a good excuse to go out soon.

 

[MExcelsior]

I didn't think that the iPod Touch had gps. Is it working slow because it's using Wi-Fi locators to pick up location? (Which you could pick up on the road, but probably not on the water). Let me know if it is equipped with gps.

Thanks,

ME

 

[Tonka Boater]

Got Navionics for iTouch yesterday. I'm impressed with the large amount of info availabe!! I wasn't sure if I wanted to get the navionics for my Huminbird SI. Now I'll get it for sure.

One complaint about the iTouch version is the gps refresh is extreamly slow!! It takes like 2 mins to refresh gps position. I tried it out on the road driving to work today. Maybe it needs a boat ride, yea that's a good excuse to go out soon.

I didn't know the Touch had a built in GPS....thought it was only on the iPhone.
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[LmannyR]

Nope no GPS. A quick search on google says it's all wifi based, just like the iPhone. Well I can still scroll to my approx location and get some info.

 

[trit21]

Original iphone is cell tower/wifi based. New 3G and 3Gs are GPS based iphones and the Navionics works well....small and hard to read and pretty much useless for navigation. BUt what do you want for a basically free nav system.

 

[Go Aweigh2452]

Original iphone is cell tower/wifi based. New 3G and 3Gs are GPS based iphones and the Navionics works well....small and hard to read and pretty much useless for navigation. BUt what do you want for a basically free nav system.

You can easily drill down into a smaller scale and watch your boat travel at a good DR (Dead reconing). It is not as accurate as your Garmin or other GPS but great on your dink or to use to take photos/track your position and send to friends as you are traveling thus marking the location you were just at... Great for keeping a record of tracks...

All the phone numbers and other info are great as well...

 

[VTSeaRay]

Yeah, I was wondering how the iTouch would handle being away from WiFi, I suppose you could setup one of those Mi-fi's maybe?

-VtSeaRay

 

[Turtlesboat]

it's very usable for navigation. I use both my chartplotter and my iphone at the same time. It's great for getting distances, a quick look ahead. I probably use it more than my main chartplotter.

 

[LmannyR]

How can make my itouch faster?

 

[Turtlesboat]

trade it in for an iphone?

 

[Tonka Boater]

How can make my itouch faster?

You can't -- it's a music player that can also play video and games but it's not a gps. Just because it can run gps/chartplotting software doesn't make it a gps. As stated earlier, the iPhone 3G and 3Gs do have built in gps and that is why they are faster.
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[Go Aweigh2452]

Try upgrading your router to an N if your puter can handle that. That should increase the refresh rate but only at home :huh:

As stated, go with the new 3Gs... All GPS... I am surprised at how fast it keeps up with real world. Just a very short lag on the highway... maybe 100 ft... not bad for a non- Tom Tom device made for the road... Nice to see on the water and fast routing set up too.:smt038

 

[Kameroo]

Does the app support Garmin Bluecharts, or do they have to be NOAA? I'm on the Ohio River.

 

[trit21]

Just a very short lag on the highway... maybe 100 ft...

And that is the reason it is not very good in a boat, beside the small screen. Don't know about you, but my chartplotter is alot closer than 100 ft off. And, if I was off by 100 ft coming into the inlet, I would be on the beach. It is ok for general location and maybe a backup (maybe) but other than that it is useless on the water. Learn to use your chartplotter and put the iphone away for backup use and land use.

 

[Tonka Boater]

And that is the reason it is not very good in a boat, beside the small screen. Don't know about you, but my chartplotter is alot closer than 100 ft off.

This might vary by location. Mine is dead-on. I have waypoints marked in my Motion-X app and it will navigate to the exact location.

For example, I marked the channel buoys leading into my marina as a waypoint. I used the Motion-X to navigate home at night and it brought me to the dead-center of the channel entrance.
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[wkearney99]

How can make my itouch faster?

Faster at what, getting a postition fix or the screen redraw? I believe the new iTouch 32gb and 64gb use the same faster processor as the 3GS. I wouldn't expect that to make much difference in the wifi position fix stuff. It might be a bit faster in screen redraw but probably not enough to make a huge difference.

At this point it doesn't appear there's any way to get any external GPS data into the current release of the iTouch. The iGPS360 hardware interface exists, as does software that would support it, but there's not yet a way to defeat Apple's overly restrictive protection of these units (no jailbreak for the new touch units).

It'd be interesting to be able use a bluetooth gps interface. They're relatively cheap and wouldn't use the iPod's battery for power. Not as versatile as a GPS attached right to it but useful in some situations.