S63_PI Beta Test 0.5.0

[CarCode]

Hubert,

I have send to you already the 26. of April a mail and wrote to you what is wrong with fingerprint. It seems you have not received it.

Gerhard

[bcn]

Originally Posted by CarCode

Hubert,

I have send to you already the 26. of April a mail and wrote to you what is wrong with fingerprint. It seems you have not received it.

Gerhard

Gerhard,

what you pointed out in your mail with reason is the usability - the issue that OS-X drops the executable bit of the fingerprinter when downloading it.
This is a nuisance for the user, and yes, it it would be interesting to find a solution for this.
We found a quite simple 3-step way how to revert the -x option, but even this might be still a challenge for unexperienced users.

What I'm worried about is the reported segfault, that we can't reproduce here.
So the question is, if anybody else had this error.
The fingerprinted builds and executes without errors or warnings.

Hubert

[bcn]

The OS-X user with the SEGFAULT executing the fingerprinter upgraded his system to Mavericks/10.9.2 and the problem is gone.

We have now the first OS-X user with S-63 charts near to Gibraltar...

Hubert

[Gilletarom]

Hello Dave,

I have at my disposal a non official beta version of O. This is the version of 331710.

I tested the s63, V05. It seems to work correctly.

However:

I observed that the light sectors appear correctly when I put the mouse over a light. This is normal.
But when I remove the mouse, the light sectors do not cease to appear. This is not normal.

B.R., Gilletarom.

[sailorF54]

I am concerned about the reliability of the CATZOC (= quality of) data in Opencpn on the S63 charts I have bought.
The French Hydro Service (SHOM) pride itself on having accurately labelled the various zones. But on my charts, the CATZOC are always 6 (data not assessed).
I know that this is not true from the fairway leading to the great military harbour of Brest, which nuclear submarines and our aircraft carrier use regularly.
Could this point be investigared further ?

[sailorF54]

Originally Posted by sailorF54

I am concerned about the reliability of the CATZOC (= quality of) data in Opencpn on the S63 charts I have bought.
...

Sorry, I have found an area where the quality is known... So probably, Opencpn is OK

[bcn]

Originally Posted by sailorF54

Could this point be investigared further ?

In case somebody finds incorrect data in the future:

we have been approached by ChartWorld informing us that they would like to see a feedback in those cases. They will investigate and channel this information back to the chart producer.

Hubert

[sailorF54]

For the record, this is the kind of mail you receive every week after buying charts from Chartworld
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Dear Madame/Sir, there are no updated permits and/or data available for Week 19/14.
Your License details are as follows:
Licence No: ----- (deleted by me)
Licensee ID: ----- d°
Vessel/Installation: Pytheas
Customer Name: Francois Lonchamp
Customer: Pytheas
Please use the above details always as reference in each support request. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
Your ChartWorld Team ChartWorld GmbH
....
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I'm anxious to be informed that an update is available, so that I can investigate how to do it...

[bcn]

Just have a look at your ChartWorld account.
It's well possible that there are already updates available.

The mail "no updates are available" is just misleading.

Dave and ourselves received the same mails during the testing period of the charts from ChartWorld we had to play with.
And it showed that one should have a look periodically each Tuesday or so to fetch updates.

Hubert

[sailorF54]

Originally Posted by bcn

Just have a look at your ChartWorld account.
It's well possible that there are already updates available.

The mail "no updates are available" is just misleading.

Dave and ourselves received the same mails during the testing period of the charts from ChartWorld we had to play with.
And it showed that one should have a look periodically each Tuesday or so to fetch updates.

Hubert

Good to know !
I have just checked: no sign of an update
(but I have not downloaded many charts )

[CarCode]

What is going on with S63 plugin?
Last development is more than 3 months ago and no stable release right now.
There are still some weak points in the code, e.g. see attachment.

Any roadmap available?

Gerhard

[bcn]

Will be updated in the course of the next beta release of OpenCPN.

In the meantime we identified some issues with the Linux version and the chart set from AHS helped as well to identify some bottlenecks.
And we learned about different ways of releasing updates when compared with ChartWorld.
Updates are not defined thoroughly in the S-63 standard which leaves some room for surprises.

Australian users contributed some ideas about where to place the SENC directories in oder to have a better understanding and solutions to differentiate which information is system/PC related and which is user/account related.
This is relevant in multi-user environments like colleges or universities.
New scenarios for OpenCPN where we usually just had single installations.

In the S-63 case the majority of users is communicating their inputs via the o-charts.org site, so that we don't see here at the forum what is going on.
A drawback from the requirement to fence the S-63 plug-in.

But we know that quite a bunch of users are sailing with S-63 charts.

So just keep tuned!
And thanks for the code review..

Hubert

[CarCode]

Originally Posted by bcn

Will be updated in the course of the next beta release of OpenCPN.
Hubert

Hubert,
there are more than 12 OCPN betas right now, more than for any stable release before. So I suppose we will not even see a stable OCPN this year.
The sailing season in northern Europe ends soon...

Gerhard

[Gilletarom]

Hello,

I have, on my side, had the opportunity to say how much the absence of new stable version for O is a disaster. On the French forum, we no longer talk of OpenCPN except for complaining about the difficulties involved to make it work with some GPS .....

Such is life ...

Best regards

Gilletarom

[CarCode]

By the way I have found 14 other weak points beside the one I have posted above in S63 plugin.

Gerhard