This is a technical post. It follows on from previous posts on Western Australian and New Zealand anchorages. We've now compiled additional anchorage, mooring and marina waypoints to cover Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
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| Overview of waypoints in OpenCPN |
The new waypoints were compiled from Terry's Topics GPX files and our own research. Terry's appear to have been provided mainly by SVs Banyandah, Black Duck, Matilda, Olena and SuAn. Many thanks to them! We removed most of the many duplicates in Terry's files. Useful comments and links were retained. The MinScale parameter was set on most waypoints to avoid obscuring underlying charts - so zoom in to find them all. And the symbols used were modified to follow our convention.
Our waypoints are also available as KMZ files for GoogleEarth. The latter are useful for exploring anchorages and marinas in the Google Earth Pro app. This is especially helpful if you don't have satellite 'charts' installed in OpenCPN. This of course presumes you have Starlink aboard since Google Earth Pro needs a high-speed internet connection.
With correct setup Google Earth Pro can show your current location via a serial NMEA013 data feed from your boat network.
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| Our Australian waypoints from Cocos-Keeling to Norfolk Island |
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| Our SouthWest Pacific waypoints for Fiji, Vanuatu & New Caledonia |
The screenshot below shows how we arrange our OpenCPN persistent layers. Each is read from one of our GPX files. The number of waypoints in each file is shown. Loading the GPX files as layers avoids inadvertent moving/editing of waypoints.
In addition to our GPX and KML libraries we also have a KAP library. The KAP library contains satellite 'charts' for use in OpenCPN.
Here are links to the three folders holding this data on our Dropbox site:
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