I've been experiencing an issue where OpenCPN will freeze and not accept any input from keyboard or mouse. It will eventual start working again after a few minutes. Here's what terminal shows when I ...

After exiting OpenCPN either via the X or Navigate>Exit OpenCPN menu item, the CPU usage for the OpenCPN task goes from ~10% while running, up to 24-25% after being closed, as observed in the Task ...

Come Sunday, October 24, 2021, those using applications that rely on gpsd for handling time data may find that they're living 1,024 weeks – 19.6 years – in the past. A bug in gpsd that rolls clocks ...

Sailors interested in building their very own computer-controlled chart plotter using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a project created earlier this year by James Conger, which ...

Having quality navigation tools while out at sea is very important, especially for life-and-death situations. Now, the tool we will talk about is called OpenCPN, and from what we can tell, it works ...

More than 90,000 commercial ships make up the world’s commercial fleet, their locations closely tracked and the resulting data available for free. GIJN has compiled a comprehensive list of resources ...