Tracker: Chart Feature Requests

[rgleason]

By far the largest group of feature requests are related to Charts.
We need to try to reduce this number to something more manageable, by eliminating duplicates, consolidating, and closing ones that are no longer relevant. These titles will also be revised to provide more meaningful sort by Summary. Everyones help/comments on individual items in this thread and in tracker will be appreciated. Please review the items you posted. Also VOTE, which are the top 5 chart items? Top 10 chart items? We need to focus programming effort on only important items, your vote will help.

358 Chart Add and save verbal labels on a chart
361 Chart Batch "ingest" for ENC charts
606 Chart Calculate skew angle, SK, internally.
741 Chart Can quilt files be stored system-wide ( for all u...
384 Chart CM93 charts
740 Chart Command-line program to stitch stuff up
875 Chart Declutter of signs in ENC
272 Chart Degrees of mid fairway lines are not displayed
752 Chart Hermannskogel Datum not supported - PATCH
204 Chart Make chart info a configurable option
919 Chart National texts in the ENC charts
573 Chart Notes by User
309 Chart Offset corrections for rastercharts.
1023 Chart Rapid means of opening TXTDSC files from Object Q...
246 Chart Search function for objects (e.g., islands)
615 Chart Show Notices to Mariners Revision Date on Raster
622 Chart Switch on or off embossed text "OverZoom"
241 Chart Value of depth lines not shown
582 Chart Warning for undefined Geodetic Datum -> GD
805 Chart Work as plugin
654 Chart workshop
719 Chart Zoom to cursor do not work with bsb charts in som
818 Charts Living lights, blinking lights and extendable li.
342 Charts OVERLAY Transparent and/or Intelligent Overlay
1109 Charts S-63 support (need independent developer)
1121 Charts ship_color set to default ship & Real Scale Bitm

[dacust]

I think 361 & 740 are asking for the same thing (see below). Although 740 wants the ability to do it for a specific region. OK by me (361 was mine).

In response to nohal's comment on 740, yes, that is kinda how it is supposed to work, but it only ingests as many as it can before it times out. So, you have to run it over and over if you have many ENCs. I finally gave up trying to get it to finish mine last time I tried (many months ago, so someone correct me if that has changed).

To recap for those who don't want to go read the links above:

FS-361:
Batch "ingest" for ENC charts.

I would be fine with even a command line to allow batch ingest of all ENC charts in a directory or directory structure.

This would allow for disk space planning, as well as speeding up scrolling around.

FS-740:
I'd like to be able to run a script that would pre-digest charts for a given place and zoom level, or region.

nohal's comment:
Already possible to some extent with the -unit_test_1 command line switch (see Troubleshooting | Official OpenCPN Homepage). If you organize your charts to a folder structure that reflects your needs, it will do pretty much exactly what you ask for.

-dan

[rgleason]

Thanks Dan, Which one should we close? (I changed both tasks).

[rgleason]

"Chart" Task "Summary"s have been edited and reorganized. There are 23 Charts Tasks listed in Opncpn Feature Requests. Please review and comment. Close all tasks that are completed. Consolidate. VOTE for the 5 most important. This is way too much for the programmers to handle realistically.

1109 Charts S-63 support (need independent developer)
818 Charts Living lights, blinking lights and extendable li
654 Chart Tool - Workshop (mapcal + conversion utilities +
740 Chart Tool - Command-line program to stitch stuff up -B
361 Chart Tool - Batch "ingest" for ENC charts
246 Chart Search function for objects (e.g., islands, place
1023 Chart Rapid means of opening TXTDSC files from Object Q
741 Chart Quilt - Can quilt files be stored system-wide ( f
342 Chart OVERLAY Transparent and/or Intelligent Overlay, m.
573 Chart Notes - Annotations & drawings by User on a layer
358 Chart Notes - Add and save verbal labels on a chart
204 Chart Information Popup - make it a configurable option...
919 Chart ENC National texts in ENC charts
875 Chart ENC Declutter of signs in ENC
384 Chart CM93 - Depth levels
272 Chart CM93 - Degrees of mid fairway lines are not displ...
241 Chart CM93 - Show depth value of depth lines
606 Chart Calculate skew angle, SK, internally.
752 Chart BSB Hermannskogel Datum not supported - PATCH
582 Chart BSB - Warning for undefined Geodetic Datum -> GD ...
615 Chart BSB - Show Notices to Mariners Revision Date on R...
309 Chart BSB - Offset corrections for rastercharts. (Simil...
719 Chart BSB Zoom to cursor does not work with bsb charts...