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The Skipper development project

Skipper is a development project with special emphasis on navigation for boating people. It's an Android app, which includes the following features:

  • using OSM maps (Mapnik, OpenSeamap and Topo)
  • external maps in mbtiles format can be imported
  • Skipper tracks and uses routes for navigation
  • tracks and routes can be (im|ex)ported in GPX format
  • SKipper retrieves world wide weather information from German DWD weather service with thousand of stations worldwide
  • It also can load GRIB files (V1/V2 version) from Saildocs service
  • It also has a celestial navigation support

Screen shots (OpenSea Map, Topo Map, Weather Info)

Screen shots (Anchor Alarm, GFS Grib File)