November 23, 2010 15:31
I've been using GPSNavX for a long time now and I'm ready to add iNavX to my setup with my new iPad 
. I want to use the iPad for sailing during the day as it needs much less power than the Macbook and is easier to have in the cockpit. Then at night get the day's track from the iPad back into GPSNavX, make the plan for the next day and copy the route onto the iPad.
Now I found this thread and what I read basically breaks my use case because I won't have an Internet connection much of the time where I'm sailing and even if I wouldn't want to mess around with several SIM cards, connection settings etc. - not even talking about the additional cost for 3G/WiFi use.
All apps that work with files on the iPad can sync their files using iTunes in a quite simple way. iNavX should offer the same! It's ridiculous to have to use an online service to copy a couple of kB of data from the Mac to the iPad, especially when the app is for sailing (=> no land, no Internet connection).
Please add this feature and you'll have a new customer for iNavX.
Oh and - off topic - is it true that the track in iNavX can only be 50nm long? That's not much for a day of sailing. Can this limit be changed if enough memory is available?
. I want to use the iPad for sailing during the day as it needs much less power than the Macbook and is easier to have in the cockpit. Then at night get the day's track from the iPad back into GPSNavX, make the plan for the next day and copy the route onto the iPad.Now I found this thread and what I read basically breaks my use case because I won't have an Internet connection much of the time where I'm sailing and even if I wouldn't want to mess around with several SIM cards, connection settings etc. - not even talking about the additional cost for 3G/WiFi use.
All apps that work with files on the iPad can sync their files using iTunes in a quite simple way. iNavX should offer the same! It's ridiculous to have to use an online service to copy a couple of kB of data from the Mac to the iPad, especially when the app is for sailing (=> no land, no Internet connection).
Please add this feature and you'll have a new customer for iNavX.
Oh and - off topic - is it true that the track in iNavX can only be 50nm long? That's not much for a day of sailing. Can this limit be changed if enough memory is available?
John (aka Loith) Chapin
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"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other." Samuel Johnson