Boat Watch at Mac App Store analyse

using port everglades as prime example. maps do not reflect actual harbor layout of either everglades or dania port areas. large tankers shown inland by 300 meters when they are actually in water at that same location. docking 1 thru about 16 are totally not shown and the line that is shown is highly inacurate for up the icw to other small and major harbors as well. same for miami.

I purchased this app for my Mac to track a specific vehicle-carrying ship (MIGNON) from Germany to Halifax to New Jersey in order to determine the arrrival date of my new car into port. Unfortunately the positional data was not being maintained for periods of days. Out of frustration I purchased another app for my iPhone to find that AIS updates were being broadcast hourly with the revised plot of the MIGNON’s position. My Mac is up to date with OS-X El Capitan 10.11.6 and current Java adapters. I also noted, (perhaps for addtional developer feedback) that the vessel infomation pop-up obscures the vessel map location, and erases the track history. This app needs a good deal of human factors engineering along with a proper database back-end.

As a sailboat owner in Southern California it’s nice to know where the bigger ships will be ahead of time. This works well. Unlike others I have no trouble zooming down to a detailed-enough level.

Downloaded the free version and there were boats to watch even though i know theres many ships in my port…. bought the upgrade figuring i would be able to see more of the ships and more info and the only ships we can see are over seas…no American vessels available waste of money

Pas terrible, la carte n’affiche pas les bateaux si le zoom est en champ large, pas la moitié des bateaux affichés si je compare aux sites spécialisés disponible en ligne. Bref, mieux vaut aller directement sur un site

…allerdings habe ich noch keine Plot-Funktion des Kurses (wie bei "Marine Traffic“ für´s iPad) gefunden… aber für einen netten Zeitvertreib am PC reicht es aus. Allerdings MUSS man den In-App-Kauf tätigen, will man überhaupt etwas mit dieser App anfangen können :-(

Ne couvre pas le St-Laurent plus haut que Trois-Rivières. Complètement inutile, n’achetez pas.