OpenCPN Version 2.2 Beta Test

[cagney]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Hi Testers!

Opencpn Version 2.2. Beta build 1007 is available for download.

Changelog:

102. Revert #98 above, pending new Windows installer.
103. Disable Tide station harmonic cacheing.

Notes:

Reminder:
Please check and update your Flyspray tasks as you validate the features and fixes in this release.

Thanks, and good luck
Dave

I did some more testing on 1004 before compiling 1007.
To me it seems as the crashes comes when the last tidal station before closing OpenCPN, was one of those I corrected to Utf -8.

Ubuntu packages now available for 1007.

Thomas

[cagney]

Originally Posted by SethDart

Hi Thomas,
I guess we'll have to ship each .deb & .rpm built separately from appropriate env. I can provide a .rpm built here if you want (Fedora 13 or Fedora 14 beta)

Thank you for the testing, I'm not surprised by the result!
Yes it would be good for OpenCPN, if we could provide an rpm for the latest stable Fedora, both for stable and beta releases. Either stick them in the wiki's download page yourself or I can help out.

Thomas

[manimaul]

Perhaps we could employ a build service: https://build.opensuse.org/ to automatically build all the architectures and major distributions.

Does anyone have experience with this?

The openSUSE Build Service provides software developers with a convenient and easy to use tool to create and release open source software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva and Debian on different hardware architectures and for a broad user audience.

Will

[cagney]

Found this while checking the latest beta for tidal station errors.

Thomas

[nohal]

Originally Posted by cagney

Found this while checking the latest beta for tidal station errors.

Well, CM93 is not always perfect...

Feature Class: BCNISD

Position: 019 12.0079 N 104 40.0787 W

Attributes
COLOUR black red black(2 3 2)
COLPAT horizontal stripes(1)
SORIND (GB MDHS graph LL G-3480.7)

Pavel

[Rik-lu]

why is this wreck not shown in cm93 in all versions of opencpn-win (just an X is visible) ?

Feature Class: WRECKS

Position: 057 21.0415 N 017 09.0133 E

Attributes
CATWRK dangerous wreck(2)
EXPSOU shoaler than range of depth
of the surrounding depth
area(2)
TECSOU swept by wire-drag(6)
WATLEV always under
water/submerged(3)
VALSOU 2.5(m)

[nohal]

Originally Posted by Rik-lu

why is this wreck not shown in cm93 in all versions of opencpn-win (just an X is visible) ?

Feature Class: WRECKS

Position: 057 21.0415 N 017 09.0133 E

Attributes
CATWRK dangerous wreck(2)
EXPSOU shoaler than range of depth
of the surrounding depth
area(2)
TECSOU swept by wire-drag(6)
WATLEV always under
water/submerged(3)
VALSOU 2.5(m)

It's the result of WRECKS02 symbolization procedure - piece of a bit complicated code for which at least I lack the corresponding documentation (part of IHO presentation library, which is not publicly available). On my list to check in the future.

Pavel

[Rik-lu]

Originally Posted by nohal

It's the result of WRECKS02 symbolization procedure - piece of a bit complicated code for which at least I lack the corresponding documentation (part of IHO presentation library, which is not publicly available). On my list to check in the future.

Pavel

does this help you:

http://www.d4d.info/fileadmin/Image_...erter_List.pdf


see for example page 9 :

Type of wreck CATWRK - -
Non- dangerous wreck - CATWRK = 1 -
Dangerous wreck - CATWRK = 2 -
Distributed remains of wreck - CATWRK = 3 -
Wreck showing mast - CATWRK = 4 -
Wreck showing any portion of hull
or superstructure
- CATWRK = 5 -

[Rik-lu]

and while googleing found this which could be interesting for everybody:

10 Things They Should Have Told You About ECDIS

http://www.pcmaritime.co.uk/comm/lib...tECDISver2.pdf

[petermoree]

see attached jpegs

AIS Rollover data shows ship as *moored* while it actually goes over 7 kts.
This message was persistent over a longer period (30 minutes at least) and was observed by various other vessels as well.


Look Ahead Mode makes ship disappear from screen while the ship should stay in its designated position and the chart should move instead.

[cagney]

Originally Posted by petermoree

see attached jpegs

...

Look Ahead Mode makes ship disappear from screen while the ship should stay in its designated position and the chart should move instead.

You have to have the Find/Follow Boat Button activated for this to happen. Your first picture shows clearly that this is not the case. When a button is activated it's slightly bigger.
I have just tested this with a simulator, and it works OK.

Thomas

[dacust]

Originally Posted by petermoree

...

AIS Rollover data shows ship as *moored* while it actually goes over 7 kts.
This message was persistent over a longer period (30 minutes at least) and was observed by various other vessels as well.

...

Since no one else has responded, I'll tell you what I think it is based on a recollection of an earlier post or two.

The "moored" and "under way" status is not calculated by the software. It is a status sent by AIS. It is not sent based on movement, but on a setting on Class A transceivers. (I don't think Class B sends this status at all.)

So, in your case, that was operator error on the part of the ship.

If I remember correctly, the original post was the other way around. A moored ship was showing as being under way.

-dan

[cagney]

I need Icons or screen shots of
AIS Basestations
AIS Navaids
for the documentation of the upcoming 2.2.
Is there anyone who has seen these? I suppose it's a European thing mainly, for now.

Thomas

[HamishB]

Hi,

sorry for the sort-of out of thread question, but I'm just having no joy with the Search tool.

I seem to recall that sometime about/before 2.1.0 that a check was added for reading BSB charts which later had to be backed out because there were too many buggy RNCs out there. I had thought it had to do with color palettes, but the problematic Swedish tmerc chart FrankW's been fighting with is down to a line number encoding error.

#3776 (Unreadable Swedish BSB file is readable with OpenCPN)

can anyone refresh my memory about that episode?


thanks,
Hamish

[jan eulen]

Good morning,

Thanks again for the very nice program and al your work.
I think I found two bugs in release 1007. I run the program on a XP machine.The first is the cursor position; it seems the decimal minute numbers are a factor 10 to small (picture 1). The second is about quilting with transverse mercator charts; quilting off the cursor position is good (accept about the first bug); quilting on gives a wrong position (see picture 2 and 3).

I hope this wil help to improve the great program.

Jan Eulen