Using the compass you can put your iphone on the deck and have an arrow point you to your next waypoint that you have plotted on Google maps beforehand. You can also record the route you've sailed and load it into a google maps mashup when you get back home. Or you could use the accelerometer to record how good or bad the weather has been on your trip (the more a boat rocks back and forth the worse the weather)
I haven't thought out exactly how it should be, but I'm pretty sure it would be a neat app. If you find it interesting my mail is in my profile.
There's no reason to publish it for free, it's probably something people will pay good money for :-)
As an avid offshore fisherman, in Florida, I think about nautical apps all the time, the problem is that the iPhone is not safety rated at the level that you would want to use it for an app that you life could depend on. I don't know much about the laws but you could run afoul of safety regulation by simply creating an application with the express intent of using it for these applications. I know Navionics provides their map software on the iPhone so it may be possible, but it definitely warrants more research before investing the time to develop a product.
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I've thought that a sailing app would be great.
Using the compass you can put your iphone on the deck and have an arrow point you to your next waypoint that you have plotted on Google maps beforehand. You can also record the route you've sailed and load it into a google maps mashup when you get back home. Or you could use the accelerometer to record how good or bad the weather has been on your trip (the more a boat rocks back and forth the worse the weather)
I haven't thought out exactly how it should be, but I'm pretty sure it would be a neat app. If you find it interesting my mail is in my profile.
There's no reason to publish it for free, it's probably something people will pay good money for :-)
As an avid offshore fisherman, in Florida, I think about nautical apps all the time, the problem is that the iPhone is not safety rated at the level that you would want to use it for an app that you life could depend on. I don't know much about the laws but you could run afoul of safety regulation by simply creating an application with the express intent of using it for these applications. I know Navionics provides their map software on the iPhone so it may be possible, but it definitely warrants more research before investing the time to develop a product.