Calculation of "Safe route" for nautical map?

[Arve Waltin]

Hi!

As Locus seems to be extensively used for nautical navigation world wide, I expect to find a "safe route" feature including depth config in Locus when using nautical charts, but I can't find anything. Another thing; could "altitude" be a placeholder for depth when nautical map is used?

[jusc]

Seems that most of us don't know or understand what you are looking for. Maybe you can explain a bit more?

[Christian]

Request is clear. But Locus as nautical software? May be an additional mode for BRouter "vessel" or "cargo ship"
@menion: what do you do after GIS project?

[Menion]

you mean in 2017? Locus AIR or vacations

Anyway hello Arve,
  unfortunately Locus do not have any special features for Nautical navigation and they are not currently planned. May you describe to use a little, what's going on in "safe route"? Or just some link where I should read more ... thanks

[Arve Waltin]

"Safe route" is an auto guidance feature, meaning that the software calculates the shortest route from current location to a given point, BUT doing this calculation according to two important config parameters:
- Safe depth: set minimum depth for the route, making sure your boat is not crossing shallow water.
- Shoreline distance: set minimum distance from the shore, making sure your boat is never too close the shore.

See page 50 of this manual:
http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac//GPSMAP_4x1_5x1_5x6_OM_WW_EN.pdf

edit
And this video http://youtu.be/dJYC-Tgr-7U

[jusc]

Ah ok, after loking the video I understand. But I fear there are no free vector maps for making calculation of save routes possible. I only know France IGN raster maps "Carte littorale" from http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil. You can use openseamap of course, but the map informations seem not to be as usefull as special marine maps p. e. Garmins Bluechart like these: http://www.seekartenverkauf.de/Elektronische-Seekarten/Seekarten-Garmin/Seekarten-Garmin-BlueChart-g2/Seekarten-Large---52_79_90_107.html.
Without any map  it´s not only a "Locus task", I think.

[Arve Waltin]

http://www.vectormaps4locus.eu/

[jusc]

Sorry I don't understand. These maps are "normal" land maps or? I thought you are looking for sea maps?

[voldapet]

Additionally to previous posts: Locus does not provide any Safe routing feature. Navigation routes are computed on the remote servers and servers which are used in Locus does not allow nautical routing (feel free to correct me).  Maybe the solution is to prepare navigation in third parties SW > export route as GPX and then import GPX file into Locus ans use it for navigation.
OpenCPN SW looks quite promising http://opencpn.org/ocpn/  (in case that you want to use free solution).
Please check OpenSeeMaps (Menu > Maps > Online > OSM) which can be downloaded for offline usage. But also these maps can not be used for navigation - only as static maps for your manual planning.

Please note: vector maps works offline but does not contain any information for navigation. And vector maps at http://www.vectormaps4locus.eu/ are not created by Locus team and they are quite old (sorry Matthias . You can download the latest vector maps from Locus store or from different site (eq. OpenAndroMaps).

[Arve Waltin]

Ah sorry, Im not very into the properties of the different map types. What about the North Europe nautical map from Eniro? Probably its not a vector map.. It sucks that this feature seems to only exist for iOS.  but thanks for your effort  btw, I've already tried OpenCPN, but I can't find any map for it.

[jusc]

North Europe nautical map from Eniro is a raster map too (btw. very nice) but not useable for routing.
Maybe you are lokking for the Navionics app? https://play.google.com/store/search?q=navionics&c=apps

[Arve Waltin]

The iOS version of Navionics contains this feature, but unfortunately not the Android version. That's why I hope you guys could get some inspiration from this thread. 

[gynta]

The iOS version of Navionics contains this feature, but unfortunately not the Android version. That's why I hope you guys could get some inspiration from this thread. 

Maybe this guys need also some feedback...
http://www.navionics.com/en/customers