NavAid

Yet another nautical navigation app

As an active sailor I tried several navigation apps but none on Google Play fulfilled my personal requirements in terms of price-performance ratio or completeness of functionality. So, I started to create a very compact app which grew to a quite feature rich tool that specifically addresses yachtsman's needs on occasonial sailing trips.

Features:

- Waypoint / route / MOB navigation

- Add waypoints by clicking on map / entering GPS coordinates

- Track recording, sharing of tracks via kml file

- Trip statistics

- Online/offline map based on OpenStreetMap as well as OpenSeaMap as overlay map

- 90 days offline map cache expiration, so any downloaded maps should be available to you 3 months from the day of the download

- Compass feature

- Night/day view

- Anchor watch

- Weather information including wind force and wind direction for the next five days from openweathermap.org

- Turn off display via an additional soft button. Useful for smart phones that also support turning on the display via the hard home button (e.g. Samsung). This allows for turning off/on the display completely via the front side of your smartphone, i.e. when the phone is in a waterproof soft case

- Share current position

- Ability to select all possible VHF radio signals (Mayday, Securitè, Pan Pan, Routine, etc.), including own boat name, callsign, MMSI, GPS position, UTC time

- Comprehensive logbook feature. Supports managing multiple logbooks. Also allows sharing of individual logbook entries with others as well as sharing of entire logbook as csv file

- Wearable support

Please let me know your suggestions for changes/improvements. I am happy to keep this a living app.

Have fun with NavAid on your next sailing trip.

This app uses the Device Administrator permission.

This app requires the following permissions:

- GPS / location information for positioning

- Read/Write access to SD card: Caching of map tiles for offline use

- Internet: Download of map tiles, Retrival of weather details, etc.

- Device Administrator permission: Ability to turn off display via soft button