#OpenCPN
Komponentteina:
Raspberry pi 5
Pimoroni nvme base
Samsung 980
Open Marine MacArthur HAT
Xenarc 1022tsh
Softana:
OpenPlotter
OpenCPN
July 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Q on OpenCPN. How do I get boat navigation vector maps for Päijänne-Keitele?

Heard one could download from Traficom the raw data and then somehow convert it to OpenCPN format? Anyone here with experience? Or even ready-made stuff?

#opencpn #päijänne #keitele #vectormaps #navigation #boat #boating
June 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Edes OpenSeaMap.bitmap-karttoja ei Päijänteelle saa. Saimaa ja Itämeri+Suomenlahti kyllä löytyy. Ja kaupallisesti saa Suomen rannikon vektorikartat OpenCPN sopivassa formaatissa. Mutta Päijänne!?

#opencpn #opemseamap
August 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
You're not running opencpn? 😋
October 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Open source everything is the way.
I use opencpn as a chart plotter on boats, freecad for my drafting and part design, Gimp for photo editing.
Designed for users to benefit, not the billionaires.
June 15, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Maybe just encourage open source tech? Open Office, FreeCad, Gimp, OpenCpn, Linux, there is a massive list of user created software and tech out there. When you switch, give them a donation. They can use it.
June 27, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Onko täällä ketään joka osaisi auttaa avoimen traficomin raakakarttadatan muuttamisessa OpenCPN vektoriformaattiin?

Tarvitsisin Päijänne-Keitele vesistön merikartat. Niitä ei kai saa kaupallisesti sopivassa formaatissa mitenkään.

#opencpn #päijänne #keitele #vectormaps #navigation #boat #boating
August 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A new AI review! OpenCPN/OpenCPN ⭐3.3/5.0
OpenCPN is a mature, actively maintained cross-platform marine navigation application (chartplotter/ECDIS-adjacent) with broad feature coverage: raster/vector chart support (BSB, S57), AIS, NMEA 0183/2000 integrations,...
https://gitrated.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN
March 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
A working note from Bluewater Bound: Using Sailaway with OpenCPN: Turning the Simulator Into a Navigation Lab. How Sailaway's NMEA connection can feed OpenCPN and turn a sailing…

Save this for the next time this decision comes up aboard.

#Sailaway #OpenCPN

https://bluewaterbound.org/s/46b7e51f
Using Sailaway with OpenCPN: Turning the Simulator Into a Navigation Lab
Using Sailaway with OpenCPN: Turning the Simulator Into a Navigation Lab
bluewaterbound.org
September 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
After some messing with this, I can use opencpn.org to create routes, export to GPX and drop it into a mounted 276CX. Only bummer is I have to buy charts twice. But I’ve already got a 2024 set for OpenCPN.
OpenCPN Official Site
Official site of OpenCPN Chart Plotter Navigation software. Thousands of boaters already use OpenCPN as their main navigational tool. You can too. Its open source.
opencpn.org
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Got my first pi. My partner is really into naval industry so wanted to make this into a mobile vessel tracker with a touchscreen that runs opencpn (visual vessel tracker) so she can look at ships in the port. No idk how it would be different than just using a phone app but seemed like a fun project.
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A working note from Bluewater Bound: Using Sailaway with OpenCPN: Turning the Simulator Into a Navigation Lab. How Sailaway's NMEA connection can feed…

Join the journey before the boat, the refit, and the offshore miles.

#MarineNavigation #MarineWeather

https://bluewaterbound.org/s/9e8d5547
Using Sailaway with OpenCPN: Turning the Simulator Into a Navigation Lab
Using Sailaway with OpenCPN: Turning the Simulator Into a Navigation Lab
bluewaterbound.org
August 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
this is absolutely fabulous for charting a course and tracking your position using #OpenCPN using a #raspberrypi

You can either use the Raspberry OS images or customize your image with the OpenPlotter À la Carte tool openmarine.net/openplotter
#sailing #navigation #IoT
March 11, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Hey thanks man, this is very helpful. I have a vhf antenna, and an rtlsdr blog I had planned to use. Im not going to be in a boat so just need to receive data rather than transmit. Just wanted my partner to be able to look at ship data on opencpn really.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
By the way, if you use OpenCPN on a PC at the chart table, we also have a 10-inch waterproof and sunlight-readable screen to install as a second screen in the cockpit
sailproof.shop/product/sunl...
Sunlight-readable Waterproof Touchscreen 10" - Sailproof shop
A sunlight-readable waterproof 10.1-inch touchscreen to install in your cockpit boat for safe navigation with PC cartography.
sailproof.shop
December 15, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Does the android tablet come preloaded with apps like opencpn or does the user have to load it up?
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Skeeps: if you had your choice between FreeBSD, Fedora and Ubuntu for an x86 desktop, which would you choose?
The computer will primarily be used for digital image processing, GIS, OpenCPN (with a USB GPS antenna), and R.
September 21, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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August 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Primary navigation is Navionics on an old iPad, charged off the house bank. Backups are Navionics on iPhone, outdated Raymarine plotter, laptop OpenCPN, and printed charts.

However, for the Southern Gulf Islands I can mostly navigate and predict current and tide visually now without aids.
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hot Finnish summer days activities: AIS reception with an old telescopic antenna, @airspy_com Mini, @rtlsdrblog FM-filter and Hama LTE filter blocking nasty interference. And always great #LNA4ALL amplifier. I can receive ships some 100km away! New record! View from @opencpn
November 21, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I made a feed to capture marine IoT stuff. Topics for #opencpn #openplotter #openseamap #PiCAN-M #openmarine #qtVlm #signalk #pypilot and few others, plus combos of various hardware, #NMEA, #LoRa and marine related keywords.

Give it a try. Feedback welcome. Also looking forward for topical threads.
August 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Any #opencpn users out there that could explain to me why I can't use 4 shades of depths and I'm unable to have depth areas deeper than 5 m shaded white? Finnish oeSENC charts.
September 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
I haven't in detail, but it's not the generic things that are the problem. It's specific apps that are needed in daily life: MyChart, two different parking apps, Amtrak, Windy, OpenCPN, Aqua Map, banks, Visible, etc. Plus Google Maps is still by far the best for traffic conditions and road hazards.
September 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM
uConsole(AIO拡張ボードV2)でAIS情報をマップ表示するには…AIS-catcherとOpenCPNで構築すれば良さそう?
事前にフルバックアップを取ってから試してみよう。
アンテナは広帯域ロッドアンテナで長さを調整すれば代用出来るかな。(国際VHFは受信出来ている。)
August 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM