Fully Featured Marine Leisure App
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:38 pm
I received this email today looking for input from seafaring folk like ourselves. Post your replies below. I will send a link to this post to the sender, Alex.
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I have just been contracted by the Dept of the Marine and INFOMAR specifically to produce a brief for a new marine electronics product, app, pc program, or whatever transpires. My first inclination is to go the simple route and produce a brief for a smartphone app. Like most boaters I have a love/hate relationship with the Navionics app and the ISA SafeTRX app.
What INFOMAR is looking for is a Marine Leisure product/service that will provide navigation charting with weather, wind, wave (swell), tide, current, safety, etc. overlays (and forecasting) or detail pop-ups for specific user defined locations. They also would like users to be able to upload private and/or public images, geotagged features or items of interest, geotagged dangers, etc.
These lists are subject to your feedback.
My role is to investigate user/stakeholder requirements, available data resources, data infrastructure that could reasonably be added/developed, and to recommend a way this could be accomplished. My timeline is very short for this initial study. They want it in-hand before year end.
As both a user and a stakeholder, your input would be very much appreciated.
• What features would you like to see in such an app? - both useful and essential; both output/display and user input.
• What platform(s) do you think this should run on? smartphone, tablet, pc, MFD, etc.
Thank you very much for your help & feedback
Best regards
Alex
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I have just been contracted by the Dept of the Marine and INFOMAR specifically to produce a brief for a new marine electronics product, app, pc program, or whatever transpires. My first inclination is to go the simple route and produce a brief for a smartphone app. Like most boaters I have a love/hate relationship with the Navionics app and the ISA SafeTRX app.
What INFOMAR is looking for is a Marine Leisure product/service that will provide navigation charting with weather, wind, wave (swell), tide, current, safety, etc. overlays (and forecasting) or detail pop-ups for specific user defined locations. They also would like users to be able to upload private and/or public images, geotagged features or items of interest, geotagged dangers, etc.
These lists are subject to your feedback.
My role is to investigate user/stakeholder requirements, available data resources, data infrastructure that could reasonably be added/developed, and to recommend a way this could be accomplished. My timeline is very short for this initial study. They want it in-hand before year end.
As both a user and a stakeholder, your input would be very much appreciated.
• What features would you like to see in such an app? - both useful and essential; both output/display and user input.
• What platform(s) do you think this should run on? smartphone, tablet, pc, MFD, etc.
Thank you very much for your help & feedback
Best regards
Alex