weather_routing_pi-1.1103-win32 -Climatology BETA

This has the following Branches in it:
Sean's All of his master branch
Rick's Polar File fixes
Stelian's FR.PO and Pot.

It does not have Hakan's PO and POT changes where two files have conflicts.
as I could not automatically merge these changes.

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Conflicting files

po/fr.po
po/weather_routing_pi.pot

weather_routing_pi-1.1102-win32 -Climatology BETA

This fixes the polars I hope. I dd not have the correct TARGET in the beta pull below, but that isn't the reason for the problem...

Hopefully these are all correct now. If they get changed to a different polar when you are editing, then that is a problem with the Save button and pathnames.

Also install into a "CLEANED" opencpn.ini and removed weather_routing directories in the ProgramFiles and User directories! Or the initialization that is required will not occur.

For windows users:
In
C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenCPN 4.8.0 ---> Run Uninstall Weather_routing.exe as administer.
C:\ProgramData\opencpn ---> Open opencpn.ini in Notepad++ and remove all lines for weather_routing
C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins ---> Remove the Weather_routing directory.

weather_routing_pi-1.1101-win32 -Climatology BETA

This includes Sean's Basic / Advanced TAB changes to respond to comments (looks good!)
and fixes some things like the TWS polars. Seans commits & Rick's polars commit.

1. Better TWS Polars (one was not right, a duplicate of TWS-0-6.pol) and improved the graphs and made them more realistic.
2. Re-impliment boat tacking feature.
3. Improve boat filename report.
4. Add max latitude warning.
5. Correct VMG lines on boat polar plots.
6. Correct VMG calc.

Weather_routing_1.11 Climatology-Setup

The Weather_Routing plugin now provides 4 simple routing configuration files that use Climatology Data that should work right out of the box, provided you follow instructions.

If you have previously installed weather_routing, first "clean up" your configuration thoroughly following:
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f134/weather-routing-100060.html#post2537682

Clean up your weather_routing configuration:

1. Run uninstallweatherrouting.exe
2. Then delete/rename programdata\opencpn\plugins\weatherrouting [user directory]
3. Then check opencpn.ini with Find for weather routing entries and delete them and save the opencpn.ini file.
4. Then install Climatology.
5. Then install Weather_Routing plugin.
6. Start Opencpn v4.8.0.
7. Enable the Climatology plugin and then Weather_routing plugin.
8. Start Climatology [normally unnecessary].
9. Start Weather_routing, and the four configurations are all setup ready to compute.
10. Highlight a configuration and click on Compute.

Each configuration should "compute" and "complete" the first time.

Many thanks to Sean for building this plugin, and to Stelian for making these great improvements for the new user.

Beta-Weather-Routing-Setup adds Data files

Weather-Routing-Setup as described and provided for in the manual.
This adds Data Files and WeatherRoutingConfiguration.XML file to the Data directory such that a Routing can be successfully completed by simply selecting a "Configuration" and then selecting "Compute".

The installation of these files into a completely "fresh" OpenCPN environment been tested.
Use OpenCPN v4.8.0, install Climatology, install high res gshhs background files and make sure Grib_pi is installed.

Currently the plugin installation, installs the files to

C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenCPN 4.8.0\plugins\weather_routing_pi\data\

The first thing that needs to be done is to copy all files and directories in the "Data" directory (boat, polars, grib-sample, WeatherRoutingConfiguration.XML, etc to

C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\   (with NO "data" directory)

Now start Opencpn v 4.8.0 and Options > Plugins > "Enable" weather-routing. Then close Options and click on the weather_routing icon. First we need to direct the plugin pathnames to the proper directories/files.

1. WeatherRoutingConfiguration.XML - Pick File > Open and Browse to

   C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\data and select "WeatherRoutingConfiguration.XML"

2. Boat.XML - Highlight the first Configuration and double click to bring the Configuration menu up. Under the "Boat" category Select the Boat "..." path and set it to

   C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\boat and pick the file "Boat.XML" Pick "Save Boat"

3. Polar files - Users can edit polar files so they should not be placed under ProgramFiles (x86) but should be located in a User folder such as ProgramData. So in the same "Boat" category we need to make sure the path to the Polar Files is set properly. Pick "Edit" and then "Add" browse to:

   C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\polars  and select "Test-TWS-0-20+60.pol"
   

4. Set the same "Boat.XML" file and "Test-TWS-0-20+60.pol" polar file (under ProgramData\plugins\weather_routing.. etc for every configuration in the first WeatherRoutingConfiguration menu.

5. Next start Climatology_pi and Grib_pi and open the grib file

   C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\data\grib-sample\Irma-Jose-2017090618.gfs.grib2

We can confirm that if weather_routing_pi has been installed and configured properly, and all pathnames are directed properly the routing will all complete properly except a few of the later ones. Can you figure out what to change to make these complete? If you have trouble with this, please review the manual, you will learn some important skills for using Weather_Routing.

Also see the Manual:
https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opencpn:opencpn_user_manual:toolbar_buttons:plugins:weather:weather_routing#weather_routing_setup

This wxrouting setup assumes the following pathnames are used for Windows (Linux use comparable User accessible directories):

- Main Path for support files: C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing
- WeatherRoutingConfiguration.xml: C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing
- Polar Files (.pol,.txt,.csv): C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\polars
- Boat.Xml Files: C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\boat
- Grib-Sample File: C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weather_routing\grib-sample

The Weather-Routing-Setup.zip file is just the files needed.
The weather_routing_pi-1.10-R-Setup-win32.exe is the recent plugin with the above files included.