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RFE : Too high precision in displaying more than 7 data in the general display table #168

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Gilletarom opened this issue Jan 22, 2024 · 2 comments

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Gilletarom commented Jan 22, 2024

This is the general display screen when searching for multiple weather-Routes.

2024-01-22 11_26_19-OpenCPN 5 9 0-0

I am interested here in the display of:

  • Average speed (water),
  • Maximum speed (water),
  • Average bottom speed,
  • Maximum bottom speed,
  • Average wind speed,
  • Maximum wind speed,
  • Maximum burst speed (Gust),
    • etc.... To check for the speeds of sea currents.

These speeds are all displayed with two decimal places. For example for maximum speed, I read 6.58 knots. Therefore, WR seems capable of calculating the maximum speed of the boat with an accuracy of around 0.01 knots, or approximately 18 meters per hour. And the same goes for all the other speeds.
Knowing that the data, from which all calculations are made, are extracted from a grib file, itself imprecise, it seems to me that such a level of precision is aberrant.

I think the speeds should be given with an inaccuracy of 1 knot. for example, instead of 6.58 knots we can round up to 7 knots, or at least to 6.6 knots.
And we could even put all the speeds rounded to 0.5 knot by only writing values of 0.5 knot in 0.5 knot. We would then have the only values used: 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 etc....

@Gilletarom Gilletarom changed the title RFE : Précision trop grande dans l'affichage de plus de 7 données dans le tableau d'affichage général RFE : Too high precision in displaying more than 7 data in the general display table Jan 22, 2024
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From un-precision, we generate further un-precision. Are you saying to use precision from grib files and polars to calculate, but actually, just show these rounded?

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