OpenCPN
Sign in to saveOpenCPN (Open Chart Plotter Navigator) is a free software maritime chart plotter and navigation software for use underway or as a planning tool. Developed by a team of active sailors and tested in real world conditions, it has multiple supported chart formats and a variety of data inputs.
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It sits within the topics Electronic navigation, Free software projects and Nautical charts.
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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, MacOS, Linux and Android. 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. Our thanks go to MAXCDN for providing a CDN network delivering the OpenCPN downloads worldwide.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- opencpn.org
- Image
- OpenCPN 4 8 0 screenshot.jpg
- Has use
- navigation
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- Commons category
- OpenCPN
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- software version identifier
- 5.14.0
- operating system
- Solaris
- source code repository URL
- github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN
- programmed in
- C++
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OpenCPN (Open Chart Plotter Navigator) is a free software maritime chart plotter and navigation software for use underway or as a planning tool. Developed by a team of active sailors and tested in real world conditions, it has multiple supported chart formats and a variety of data inputs.
By using satellite navigation and other NMEA 0183 data feeds, OpenCPN determines a ship's own position and status from sensors such as AIS receivers to automatically plot and track the positions of ships in the neighborhood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OpenCPN” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.