The app has three integrated facets: The app has three integrated facets

The app has three integrated facets:

• The app has three integrated facets:

• Coast Pilot

• - Proposed to fulfill carriage requirements

• Nautical Charts

• - Will NOT fulfill carriage requirements

• Location

• - NOT to be used for navigation

Designed to fulfill US Coast Guard carriage requirements

• Designed to fulfill US Coast Guard carriage requirements

• Links in Coast Pilot take you directly to feature or geographical point on nautical chart

• Download one, some, or all books

• Weekly automated updates

• Search

• Bookmarks

• Links to regulations

Does NOT fulfill carriage requirements

• Does NOT fulfill carriage requirements

• Base map

• Satellite or Roadmap

• Zoom in or zoom out and automatically switch charts to appropriate scale

• Location / tracking overlay

• Links in charts will take you directly to feature or geographical point section of Coast Pilot

Internal company R&D project

• Internal company R&D project

• Development started Jan 2012

• Registered in SDLC as a “Technology Demonstration”

• Resources: project manager, developer, tester

• All part-time

• Three-phase development schedule

• Weekly builds

• Test on NOAA Ship Bay Hydro II Sept 12

• Version 1 complete Sept 30, 2012

• Many follow-on ideas

NOT to be used for navigation

• NOT to be used for navigation

• Real-time GPS

• Current position overlaid on chart

• Displays

• Speed Over Ground
• Course Over Ground
• Bearing

• Waypoints

• Tracking

Native app, not web-site

• Native app, not web-site

• Works connected or unconnected to internet

• Written in Java and Python

Joe Linza

• Joe Linza

• Lynker Technologies

• [e-mail]