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Our journey to building the maritime analytics platform of the future.


  1. Effective Use Of Technology - Way Forward For Maritime Industry

    Last month I circulated a survey to understand the maritime industry’s challenges and problems more closely. Survey was meant for marine experts and professionals who have spent a good amount of time in the field and gained valuable experience. The response I got was overwhelming. Here I also want to thank all the participants for their thoughtful comments. …


  2. Aquaplot launched new product - Marine Distance Table

    2016 was a great year for us, It was full of excitements and learnings. We started the year with our public beta and within 3 months we went live. We received some really helpful feedback from our users which help us in a big way and we would like to thank everyone for that. All these appreciation and love motivates us to go further with our products. And now we are proudly announcing that with start of this year we manage to come with our all new product - Marine Distance Table. …


  3. Get (S)ECA distance in Sea route: also available in API

    Finally!! We feel immense pleasure and proud that we have incorporated (S)ECA distance in sea route measurement. It was a long due promise from our side which is going to deliver now. Few days back we introduced the feature in which user can include/exclude Suez canal and Panama Canal from route. And now with (S)ECA distance our system become more accurate and useful for all our users. …


  4. Aquaplot Explorer New Feature: Exclude/Include Suez and Panama Canal from Route

    A great new year to all! We would like to announce that Aquaplot Explorer got its new and first feature for 2017. From now, our app will allow users to include/exclude Suez Canal and Panama Canal from routes and distance calculations. This is not limited to our Explorer app users, but also available in our API. …


  5. Seamless Rolling Deployments

    In short: Rolling deployments with proper AWS ELB / auto-scaling group de-registration, chef-client run, and re-registration. Script available here. We just finished a script for our deployment pipeline, that reduces the manual effort of a deployment to a single click. …


  6. Writing Good API Documentations

    When you write an API with public endpoints, you most likely want other developers to use your API. One must-have requirement is a good documentation that allows others to discover, understand, and use your API. There are plenty of tools that help you to generate documentation out of code or even host it for you, but here are the key points that you should think about, before you start writing your documentation. …


  7. Aquaplot Explorer is out of beta

    Starting today, Aquaplot Explorer is out of beta. We’re extremely happy with all the great suggestions, beta users have been submitting, and we now think that the product has reached the level of maturity where it achieved great usability, performance and reliability as an application. …


  8. Aquaplot Distance Calculator is Aquaplot Explorer Now

    It’s been challenging yet exciting last two months after we launched our open beta application Aquaplot Distance Calculator. Aquaplot Distance Calculator was our first step to build a unified routing and analytics platform for the maritime industry. Now, we are moving ahead with all the feedbacks, responses and experiences from our beta users. With all the improvement we are very proud to announce that Aquaplot Distance Calculator is now Aquaplot Explorer. …


  9. 1st week of open beta

    Firstly, a big thank you to everyone using Aquaplot and especially to those who already gave feedback since we started our open beta phase for Aquaplot Distance last week. We really appreciate it, and that’s why we made it even easier for you to get in touch with us. On our website and inside the app, you can now always click on a small feedback button on the right side and quickly drop a comment or make a suggestion. Our contact form is still available and we also read all our mails (see below for email address). …


  10. Aquaplot Distance Calculator OPEN BETA

    Today, we are excited to announce that Aquaplot Distance Calculator is now in open beta. This means you can sign up with Aquaplot without an invitation code. The Distance Calculator is our first step on our journey to build a unified routing and analytics platform for the maritime industry. Aquaplot Distance Calculator allows our users to easily determine sea distances between any two points on earth connected via open sea. …