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by alwayshumans 1659 days ago
So one of the fundamental design elements of a electronic chart display information system(Ecdis) or warfare Ecdis is the use of the safety depth contour.

Anything inside the blue area would cause alarming on a traditional Ecdis.

The bigger issue is the data that is used to navigate on, I could write a very boring blog detailing why th systems work so badly...

2 comments

you should! let's geek out on it
would love to chat with you about it. i think we should solve this problem.