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Board » Technical Support » qTVlm wish list - Part II.

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2016-05-04 11:50:52 - qTVlm wish list - Part II.
The last qT update (vers. 5.3.1) brought great improvements to the program.
Congratulations Phillipe/maitai.

There are still some aspects that can be improved.

1 - Separate files and/or a race data base.

1.1 - “Barriers”.

A Large part of the racing preps is to lay out “barriers”.
You invest a lot of time to trim those polylines so latter you can shorten the time used on calcs, namely.
It would be appropriate to have the possibility to save/export those “barriers” on a separate file and latter load/import it to the chart plotter. But not on the “poiReal.dat” file, as it goes now.

Still in the barriers. While the “Close” barrier option exists, the “Open” one is not available.
It should.

1.2 - User Waypoints/Marks.

Other part of your preps is to place (user) Waypoints or race specific Marks, whatever.
The same wish for the “barriers” applies here: separate files for saving the points coordinates.

1.3 - Race database.

The ideal was the possibility for creating races database in which you could gather all the above mentioned data and other like the routes made during each race.

2 - Route output CSV file.

2.1 - Unit symbols used on the output file: “kts, “NM” and “º”.

Those units’ symbols should be created on a second separate row (under the first one).
You spend a lot of time - even using the find/replace tool - cleaning those units’ symbols that are extensively repeated for nothing.

2.2 - Customable output file columns.

At least #10 columns on the generated route output file (CSV) don’t have any use for SOL purposes, to know:
- Sail/Engine; SOG; COG; AWS; AWA; CS; CD; COMB WAVES HGT; MAX WAVES HGT; MAX WAVES DIR.
It would be appropriate the user to choose which columns would be generated on the CSV file.

3 - The “crank” confusion.

There’s a big confusion about the “crank” term.
It’s used for changing the Polar size on the chart plotter (associated with “Reckoning”) and also for the Time/Distance Steps routing calculations.
My suggestion is: to use a different term (not “cranck”) and explain in the menus if qT is routing using Time Steps or Distance steps for generating the Isochrones.

With this accomplished qT starts to be a very serious router. Believe it.
Sail Fair.

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