What's new in PolarView NS 3.0.6
Jul 20, 2021
- Support for sQuidd.io POI – built in download and display
- Bug fixes
New in PolarView NS 3.0.5 (Jul 20, 2021)
- Native 64 bit support for macOS
- ActiveCaptain download discontinued
- Bug fixes
New in PolarView NS 3.0.4 (Oct 16, 2017)
- Update to restore ActiveCaptain download access
- Bug fixes
New in PolarView NS 3.0.3 (Aug 24, 2016)
New in PolarView NS 3.0.2 (Aug 17, 2016)
- Bug fixes and updates.
- Users may need to reauthenticate at product startup.
New in PolarView NS 3.0.1 (Jun 2, 2016)
- Updated licensing to conform to data source requirements.
New in PolarView NS 2.0.7 (Jan 15, 2016)
- Improve reliability of chart downloads
New in PolarView NS 2.0.6 (Dec 10, 2015)
- PolarView NS:
- Better handling of Windows upgrade licensing for new installations
- Bug fixes and general housekeeping
New in PolarView NS 2.0.5 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Fix for ActiveCaptain large data set downloads and review display
- Bug fixes and general housekeeping
New in PolarView NS 2.0.4 (Feb 10, 2015)
- PolarView NS
- GRIB viewer updates, including on-screen GRIB time slice control
- New GRIB data models: GFS and NWW3 at 0.5 degrees, and combined GFS & NWW3 model including all data (wind, waves, pressure, precipitation)
- Switch active route by Shift-clicking on it in a chart view
- Import routes and waypoints from GPX/CSV as visible
- Bug fixes and general housekeeping
New in PolarView NS 2.0.3 (Oct 13, 2014)
- Updates to support changes in ActiveCaptain data
- Quick routes saved between PolarView restarts
- Exit on closing main window under MS Windows restored
- Bug fixes and general housekeeping
New in PolarView NS 2.0.1 (Oct 24, 2013)
- Instrumentation, alarm and NMEA multiplexor functionality from PolarCOM is now included in PolarView.
- Bug fixes and general housekeeping.
New in PolarView NS 1.9 (Sep 19, 2012)
- Download of NOAA raster charts
- Option to drop waypoint at vessel location by pressing ‘Shift’
- Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
New in PolarView NS 1.7 (Jun 25, 2011)
- Integrated ordering and download of world-wide cartography from ChartWorld
- Integrated download of USACE inland vector charts
- Export chart view to PDF document or image, in lieu of printing
- Manage and sort charts as packages
- Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
New in PolarView NS 1.6 (Apr 11, 2011)
- Improved and faster rendering of raster (BSB) charts
- Improved generated night palette for BSB charts
- Reprojection of BSB charts, support for BSB charts in most projections (including Polyconic, UTM)
- Support for BSB v4 charts including a built-in BSB v4 installer
- Show information on BSB chart datum and depth units
- Improved rendering of S63 charts
- Faster and more responsive “non-blocking” chart display
- Ability to query specific times and values on tide graph, including on-screen tide slider
- Support for world wide time zones and display of tide times in local timezone
- Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
New in PolarView NS 1.5 (Feb 14, 2011)
- New on-screen touch friendly UI
- Improved route and waypoint edit controls
- Improved “zoom” using mousewheel or slider
- ActiveCaptain POI integration
- Re-designed and improved ENC chart information presentation
- Ability to upload waypoints over NMEA link to GPS/chartplotter
- Improvements in ENC rendering
- Tighter integration with PolarCOM, to control instrument windows from on-screen UI
- “Man Overboard” on-screen button
- “Set anchor” on-screen button
- Tide station info directly on a chart view
- Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
New in PolarView NS 1.3 (Mar 16, 2010)
- AIS target display (rendered to scale), with heading and course, dangerous target marking
- AIS vessel list for direct search/information access
- Improved quality of raster chart rendering and scaling
- New Traditional color scheme for vector chart rendering
- Position/bearing/distance to cursor, scale/chart orientation as overlay on the map
- Rendering own ship to scale
- Arrival circle around next waypoint in navigated route
- Improved support for S57 chart rendering including new navaid symbols.
- Sounding decluttering and adjustable font size
- Better support for international charts and multiple other improvements.
- 0.5 degree resolution GFS grib data added to download options.
New in PolarView NS 1.2 (Jan 20, 2010)
- Display bearing and distance on each leg of current and navigation route
- Route reverse option
- Improved vessel marking when anchor alarm is set
- Better track handling (including distance and time calculation)
- Numerous improvements to ENC chart scaling and rendering
New in PolarView NS 1.1 (Dec 17, 2009)
- Tides & Currents (graphic/text display, TCD constituents database).
- GRIB wave direction display.
- Improvements to ENC chart display and scaling, incorporating some user feedback.
New in PolarView NS 0.7.51 Beta (Jul 27, 2009)
- BSB raster chart support (including quilting)
- Individual chart cell on/off control
New in PolarView NS 0.6.154 Beta (Jun 29, 2009)
- Improved GRIB support.
- Isobaric pressure.
- Wave height area contours.
- Direct wind/wave/pressure/temperature query.
New in PolarView NS 0.6 Beta (May 26, 2009)
- Support for routes and waypoints (manager, visual editing).
- Great circle or rhumb line routing.
- Distance/bearing measurement in true or magnetic degrees.
- Import/export route and waypoint data to GPX and CSV files.
- Improved chart scaling.
- Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) compatibility restored.
- Various fixes to rendering, GRIB handling and others.
New in PolarView NS 0.5 Beta (Mar 19, 2009)
- Support for S63 ENC chart viewing (operational with www.ChartWorld.com).
- Day and Night color schemes.
- Modifications to chart loading and rendering to improve process response.
- Clean up, bug fixes.
New in PolarView NS 0.4 Alpha (Mar 19, 2009)
- GRIB file support (wind and atmospheric pressure).
- Light pattern labels for navigation aids.
- Maintenance and bug fixes.
New in PolarView NS 0.3 Alpha (Mar 19, 2009)
- Worldwide base map.
- Automatic chart manager.
- Automatic quilting of unlimited number of charts.
- Link to Google Maps from object information window.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
New in PolarView NS 0.2 Alpha (Mar 19, 2009)
- Initial alpha release.
- S57 ENC charts viewing.
- Manual quilting.
- Object information query and display.