Feature request : Virtual binoculars

[nawre]

With that tool, one could get a glimpse of the visible environnement at a given position. Very useful for dead reckoning navigation and watch to avoid collision.

Rough example :
imagine a dynamic array of objects with 720 columns and 2 lines (one colomun for each half degree). The first line would be the object, the second line the relative distance to the object.

0	0.5	1	1.5	...	...	180	..	...	359	359.5	360
null	null	lighthouse	null	...	...	ship	...	...	cardinal mark	...	...
null	null	3 nautical miles	null	...	...	...	...	...	0.2 nautical miles	...	...

Quite difficult because you need to build an environnemental engine/api/emmulator from real data (eg openseamaps, AIS data, weather/visibility (you already have that part !), but once we have that kind of information at any given position, the nav sim could enter another dimension ;)

One could mix the whole thing with the celestial/astro engine and the bathymetry engine and you get a full 3D environnemental engine.

In a few years, you could be able to generate a pseudo real picture from description of your sim world with the help of deep learning : Nvidia work

All of these are bonus enhancements, the possibilities are mind blowing ! Keep up the very good work. :)