2021-10-11, 02:04 AM
This is a strange thread. I am curious what the benefit of a web-based application is on a boat. I have been using OpenCPN for eight years now and I am having difficulty understanding how suddenly a web-based application is better. Pypilot represents a true cutting edge development in the open source community and it is integrated well with OpenCPN. Looking at AvNav, I don't see what the added value is over OpenCPN. Moreover, on the face of it, it looks like it and Freeboard are implementations or derivatives of OpenSeaMap, which I have continuously tried over the years, and failed, to find any value in.
Can someone please explain what the value of a web-based solution is and why it is better than OpenCPN? There is no World Wide Web at sea. Doesn't this just add a layer between OpenCPN/Pypilot and the user. What is a web-based application's benefit over VNC? It seems like the motivation for this discussion is to somehow lead the development of Pypilot and OpenCPN in a direction that supports the development of these other programs and to make up for their deficits.
Wouldn't it be better to have an API and let others go their own way toward developing their own software? Also, wouldn't it be better if Pypilot functionality were continually improved to add autopilot functionality rather than to be trying to fit it into the schemes of others?
Can someone please explain what the value of a web-based solution is and why it is better than OpenCPN? There is no World Wide Web at sea. Doesn't this just add a layer between OpenCPN/Pypilot and the user. What is a web-based application's benefit over VNC? It seems like the motivation for this discussion is to somehow lead the development of Pypilot and OpenCPN in a direction that supports the development of these other programs and to make up for their deficits.
Wouldn't it be better to have an API and let others go their own way toward developing their own software? Also, wouldn't it be better if Pypilot functionality were continually improved to add autopilot functionality rather than to be trying to fit it into the schemes of others?