Opencpn was built with the following objectives in mind:
- 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.
- Quick startup and shutdown.
- Those and only those toolbar buttons really needed for daily operation.
- Portability, thus wxWidgets core components. Currently tested and in
production use on W98, XP, OSx, and Linux.
- Conventional (i.e. popular and modern) chart format support. In the real
world, this means BSB format raster charts, and S57ENC format vector charts.
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