View Weather Routing Data - Discussion how to improve

[rgleason]

After a routing is complete, highlight the routing and select "View - [Pick from menu]" to see the resultant data.

View-Settings & Report - check the settings and then see them in the Report

View-Statistics - Simple report that can be useful.

View Cursor Position - Another simple report that is most useful when clicking on the route to see what the conditions are at the cursor

What can be done to improve this and make it more intuitive and useful?

1. Stretch the route out left to right with say 1 hour - 12 hour columns.
2. Underneath report on various things as checked in Settings.
3. The first row should possibly be a graphic of the the wind and an indication of port or starboard tack.

There are probably other ways to organize this tabular data.

[rgleason]

See this grib_pi tabular weather format
The weather_routing tabular could be similar I think

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=754&h=491&tok=ed2644&media=opencpn:manual:33wxtable_1.png

https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=754&h=491&tok=ed2644&media=opencpn:manual:33wxtable_1.png

[rgleason]

Comments by

Soggy paws. See the forum

Yes, actually. There are at least two possible grids... one being one route being calculated over a number of time periods and/or other constraints, to determine best time to leave. Lets call that one "Departure Planning".

Second being a grid that is only for a single route, and the rows being for each route point.

Both would be useful. What I was describing was the second one.