Navionics

Navionics is an Italian manufacturer of electronic navigational charts, headquartered in Massarosa, Italy. The company operates worldwide with subsidiaries in Wareham (Massachusetts), Plymouth (United Kingdom), Hyderabad (India) and New South Wales (Australia).

Navionics

Company type	Private
Industry	Cartography, mapping, marine electronics
Founded	Viareggio, Italy, (1984)
Founder	Giuseppe Carnevali, Fosco Bianchetti
Headquarters	Massarosa , Italy
Parent	Garmin (2017–present)
Website	www.navionics.com

Navionics was founded in 1984, when Giuseppe Carnevali and Fosco Bianchetti introduced the world's first marine electronic chart plotter, the Geonav. In 2007, Navionics sold the Geonav product line, to focus solely on the production of electronic charts.

On October 27, 2017, Navionics was acquired by Garmin Ltd.

In 2018, it was reported that Navionics had exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records, when its MongoDB database wasn't secured with a password.^[1]

Products

• GPS plotter charts: marine and lake cartography for GPS chartplotters
• Mobile application: marine and lake cartography for smartphones and tablets
• Web application: marine and lake cartography for desktop

Navionics Foundation

The Navionics Foundation was born in 2001 as a legal nonprofit organization that supports schools and educational programs in India. It is supported by Navionics in partnership with the Indian Government Education Office of Hyderabad.