Redmond, WA - April 12, 2010, Rose Point Navigation Systems, today announced a partnership with Active Corporation to offer ActiveCaptain within Rose Point’s Coastal Explorer navigation software. ActiveCaptain support along with Rose Points other data offerings creates a rich user experience which enables boaters to make better decisions and have more fun on the water.
ActiveCaptain is an internet based application that boaters use to share local knowledge. When a boater sees something noteworthy they can enter it on the ActiveCaptain website where it’s shared with other boaters. There are four categories of information, Marinas and Commercial Locations, Anchorages and Free Docks, Local Knowledge, and Hazards. In the past the only way to access the information was through the a web browser, but not all boaters have Internet access while underway. Coastal Explorer makes the information available while offline where boaters really want it, at the helm in their navigation software. Rose Point is the first software company to make ActiveCaptain available to the public in this way.
“ActiveCaptain is an important addition to the Coastal Explorer Network” said Brad Christian, founder and chief software architect at Rose Point. “My original vision for Coastal Explorer was a program that could be used to help with important boating questions like: Where should I go? When should I go? What’s the weather going to be like? What are the tides and tidal currents? What does it look like when I get there? What hazards might be along my route? ActiveCaptain is a great source of user created information and helps complete this vision.” In the future users should expect to find many other guides available as part of the Coastal Explorer Network.
Jeffrey Siegel, founder and creator of ActiveCaptain has been using Coastal Explorer while cruising the eastern seaboard with his wife. Many years of experience made him realize that a lot of information is needed to safely travel from Florida to Maine. He created ActiveCaptain as a tool for boaters to share that information. “I’ve been using Coastal Explorer since 2005 - it’s a great product and it makes navigation very easy. Now that it’s combined with ActiveCaptain I have the best possible planning tool along with the information I need right at my fingertips. Rose Point does an incredible job of integrating data from a variety of sources and presenting it to the user. It’s easy to use and I rely on it every day for my cruising”.
ActiveCaptain support will be included in Rose Points 2010 software, which is expected later this year. ActiveCaptain is immediately available for existing Coastal Explorer 2009 users choosing to download and install the latest pre-release beta version of the software.
Rose Point Navigation Systems is a leading developer of PC based navigation software and produces Coastal Explorer and Rose Point ECS. The company was founded in 2003, by Brad Christian, an ex-Microsoft developer and is located in Redmond, Washington.
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