Hi,
I am a very new user of
OpenCPN and have used
Navionics in the past.
As I am finding my way through the mountain of useful information in the manual and among other this forum, I have still to find a vital information that would convince me to totally step over to
OpenCPN.
I have already invested in a Raspberry Pi4 and a
GPS and this setup works beautiful.
The issue is automatic routing used in difficult waters as in the Swedish
Baltic sea where there are hidden obstacle everywhere just below the surface of the
water. A safe
route therefore consists of sometimes hundreds of different waypoints and markers and sometimes navigating through very narrow passages. Constant alert and detailed
navigation is essential en very cumbersome.
When I used
Navionics I was able to get a detailed correct
route between the different auto-generated waypoints automatically by just define the start and end of my trip and it saved me a lot of time and assured that I did not missed any obstacles.
Digging into a lot of information on
Internet and
forums have not resulted in any indication other than that with OpenCPN I have to define every
single waypoint between markers and obstacles my zelf. If this is the case it would be very disappointing and almost a no go for me and my son, who is a beginner, to use OpenCPN .
I sincerely hope that I am wrong or have misunderstood the
manuals,
forums and the information on the subject and that there in fact is a method in OpenCPN that can achieve the same autorouting functionality as in Navionics.
I am really looking forward to your answers and suggestions.