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NAVIONICS PLATINUM: A VITAL ACCESSORY FOR SAFETY
Rome (Ign) - It's called Navionics Platinum, and it's a real multidimensional electronic map, indispensable for maritime navigation, which allows a 3-D view of the seabed and the contours of the coastline, uses satellite images of the places you are headed for (including information on harbour services), and has a database which integrates a dynamic presentation of tides and currents. This is the new product from Giuseppe Carnevali's Navionics (www.navionics.com), a company based in Viareggio, on the coast of Tuscany, which for almost a quarter of a century has been designing and commercialising maps and instruments for safe navigation. It has always been at the cutting edge of the market, realising, for example also electronic 3-D maps for skiers, compatible with portable GPS devices and which show routes, difficulties of the runs and even photographs of the places you intend to cross.
Navionics is organised into six operational units, each specialised in a sector: research and development, production, marketing and sales, distribution. Today the company has sales offices all over the world: Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. The American division, with headquarters in Massachusetts, follows the American market, while the sales offices of Navionics UK and Navionics Australia provide further local pre- and post-sales support.
Navionics Platinum has received awards all over the world, including the Nmma prize for innovation, the Dame Category Award, and first prize at the Concours Innovations of the Paris Boat Show. Compared to most products on the market, Navionics Platinum displays important innovations, which make it today unique, such as satellite photographs integrated in the maps. The simultaneous use of photographs and maps in two or three dimensions allows a rapid comparison between the data and reality of the coast, extremely useful when approaching unknown stretches of coast or a port whose features are unknown. The system makes it possible to view the height of the seabed, the range and tendency of the tides, the speed and direction of the current and any trend to rise or drop. Moreover, the Platinum map device for plotters is the only product on the market which offers relief views of the coast and of soundings, together with a detailed description of wrecks and other possible obstacles which may endanger vessels.
Platinum's geo-referenced pilot's books - i.e. the books that list the ports of a region describe in detail the characteristics of the coasts, the seabed, the winds and currents - moreover automatically show the information relative to each stretch of sea, while the system memory also stores information on the main road networks and points of interest on land, including restaurants, hotels and any other commercial facility or service useful to the sailor. The Navionics systems are today available for the coasts of Europe, North America and Oceania.
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