Boat Maps: Amsterdam Canals

Sloep Routes, Bridges & Tours

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Boat Maps turns your phone into a chartplotter for Amsterdam's canals. It routes you along real waterways — never across a street or a park — so you always know which gracht to take next and where you can tie up when you get there. Built for the sloep you own, and for the one you rented for the afternoon. ROUTING THAT KNOWS YOUR BOAT Enter your boat's height, draught and length once, and every route respects them. Bridges too low for your canopy are routed around. Canals too shallow for your draught are left out. Boats of 10 metres and over are kept out of the grachtengordel, where they are not allowed. BRIDGE CLEARANCES FROM THE OFFICIAL SOURCE Boat Maps carries the published clearance for 432 bridges in and around Amsterdam, 419 of them with an official height, taken straight from Rijkswaterstaat's fairway information service. Every bridge is coloured on the map against your own boat, so one you fit under and one you do not are a glance apart. Arch bridges are listed at their lowest point rather than the crest, because the edge is where you hit. TURN BY TURN, ON THE WATER Directions shaped for a boat rather than a car, with arrival times based on a realistic 6 km/h. Routing runs on your phone, so it keeps working when the signal does not. EVERYTHING ALONG THE WAY Restaurants with their own mooring, jetties, public toilets, drinking water and charging points, all on the map. Every spot carries a chat thread, so skippers can tell each other whether the charger actually works and whether there is room to tie up. A LOGBOOK THAT WRITES ITSELF Trips are recorded while the app is open and stay on your phone. Distance, duration, the track you sailed and the landmarks you passed — kept without you touching anything. UNLOCK MORE, ONCE • Scenic tours with stories: 21 stories along the canals, in Dutch and English. Each one starts by itself as you come near, so you can put your phone down and just steer. Your first 30 minutes are free. • Live vessels on the map: see which canal cruisers, workboats and police boats are moving around you. It earns its keep on the IJ and the Amstel, where the traffic is busy and the big ships have right of way. One-time purchase. No subscription, ever. A word on bridge heights: clearances are published for the kept canal level. Heavy rain can lift the water 10 to 20 cm, arch bridges are lower at the sides than in the middle, and 13 bridges in the area publish no clearance at all. Look up before you go under. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://nickleenders.github.io/boat-maps-privacy-policy/privacy

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- Plan beyond Amsterdam. Routes now reach Haarlem, Utrecht, the Vecht and the Loosdrechtse Plassen. - Locks on the map. Tap one for today's hours, the chamber and a number to call, and the planner names the locks on your trip. - Routes stay off the big shipping lanes, and the planner warns when a bridge has to be opened for your boat.

Version 1.1.4

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Information

Seller
  • Nick Leenders
Size
  • 49.9 MB
Category
  • Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location
  • This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
13+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © Nick Leenders
  • Privacy Policy

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