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[Tim B. <ti...@en...>]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I thought it was about time I sent another quick e-mail to the list. As
some of you may know, I have been quite ill recently, which has affected
OpenPilot's development somewhat. However, I am now recovering, and you'd
be amazed how few things there are to do at home when you can't do
anything manual. Hence some of you may have noticed a flurry of commits to
CVS in the last week or so.

I think we're now at a point where most of the code is quite stable. There
are bugs in it (the AIS calculations for instance, and OSM only reporting
streetnames for the first loaded patch). I have added a point of interest
system, so that you can import chart geometry from an XML file. This needs
a small tweak, to allow us to handle all forms of geometry, at present it
only does buoys. I'll do this over the next few days.

I have re-built the Website, and it is now being hosted on my server.
there is an automatic 301 redirect from http://openpilot.sourceforge.net
so there is no change in the operation of the site. We also now have a
logo, that will make it into CVS when I get round to it. If anyone has
screenshots or pictures of OP in action (anyone got it near a boat yet?),
just e-mail them to me and I'll get them into the gallery.

A point now for our UK developers. I have spoken to Kelvin Hughes (chart
suppliers in Southampton) and it seems that all the admiralty Vector
Charts are supplied in S-63 format. S-63 it turns out is a security
wrapper around S-57, which is a complete pain. However, C-Map's Vector
charts are claimed (on the web at least) to be compatible with the S-57
standard. Kelvin Hughes have offered their full support in helping us
understand which Charts we may be able to support. American developers are
OK here as the NOAA has released everything in S-57 which is currently
supported (well, mostly).

Cheers for now,

Tim Brocklehurst

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OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter
Lead Developer
http://openpilot.sourceforge.net