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- 1. Overview
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- a. Opencpn was built with the following objectives in mind.
- i. Intended use as primary navigation interface for vessels
- with full-time helm-visible navigational suites.
- Other tools may be better for offline route planning, tide
- and current prediction, online logging, etc.
- ii. Quick startup and shutdown.
- iii. Those and only those toolbar buttons really needed for
- daily operation.
- iv. Portability, thus wxWidgets core components. Currently
- tested and in production use on Windows XP-8.1, OS X, and Linux.
- v. Conventional ( i.e. popular and modern ) chart format
- support. In the real world, this means BSB format raster
- charts, and S57ENC format vector charts.
- And, of course, opencpn is all GPL'ed (or equivalent)
- Open Source code.
- Personal Note:
- Opencpn is in primary daily use as the navigation package aboard
- M/V Dyad, a 48 ft trawler yacht cruising from Newfoundland to the
- Bahamas yearly.
- Our thanks go to MAXCDN for providing a CDN network delivering
- the OpenCPN downloads worldwide.
- OpenCPN is distributed using a multitude of licenses, see LICENSING.
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