The Canadian Coast Guard publish and keep continuosly updated a set of Navigational Warnings (NAVWARNs website) that contains information about changes to navigational aids and current marine activities or hazards that may have an impact on safety of navigation.
With Aqua Map you can display the Canadian NAVWARNs on the map and access all their information. Moreover, Aqua Map updates the data daily with the published NAVWARNs.
NOTE: It is necessary to have an active Master subscription to have access to the Canadian Coast Guard data.
Coast Guard Settings
From the general Settings page you can open the Coast Guard data settings page, where you can manage the feature.
Please notice that in this page you can manage the data from the different Coast Guard countries, currently (United States and Canada).
From the top, there is first a common section to manage the database:
- Download Coast Guard DB: to enable the download and update of the Coast Guard database.
NOTE: as the label says, this info is available only in US & Canada. - Update now: to immediately download the latest available database.
- Automatic update: you can choose the automatic update logic: "Never" will never update automatically the database (you shall press manually the "Update now" button), "WiFi" will do an automatic daily update each time the app is active and connected to a WiFi network and "Always" is doing the update (daily) with any type of data connection (even cellular connection).
NOTE: with the "Always" option you can have extra costs depending on your mobile contract.
Then there is the United State section (see USCG Data).
FInally there is the Canada section:
- Enable Canadian Coast Guard NAVWARNs on map: to display the data on the map.
- Icon size on Map: to select the preferred icon size of icon representing a NAVWARN.
As soon as you enable the data you will see on the map points, line and areas each one representing a specific NAVWARN (the icon used to represent the NAVWARNs is ).
As for all the object on the map (see Map information page for more info), tap on the object (point, line or area) to access the content of the NAVWARN.