Mariners - Seafarers

THANKS! @meteoblue for joining us here at the Windy Community forum.

Your professional input is most appreciated.

Windy does not create any forecast data but instead only visualises forecast and actual data received from various third party providers.

Windy does not create any forecast data but instead only visualises forecast and actual data received from various third party providers.

Thank you for your post, however the place names are not controlled by Windy.

Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:

https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.

Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.

Thank you :)

Windy does not create any forecast data but instead only visualises forecast and actual data received from various third party providers.

The Distance & Planning (D&P) tool is great. I recently used it to plan the best day and departure time for crossing the Gulf of Mexico from Panama City to Tarpon Springs Florida in a sailboat. This passage cut across what is called "The Big Bend" around the Florida pan handle and the main part of the peninsula with few suitable ports in between. This is a 210 nautical mile (nmi) trip which at 7.5 knots (kts) takes about 29 hours, most of the time out of sight of land, cell phone coverage, and even VHF radio coverage. Because there are no real good ports to put into along the way if the weather turns bad, having a good forecast along the route is important. The first improvement that could be made, is to support waypoints imported from GPX files. Currently the path (course) is imported, but not the waypoints. I got around this problem by plotting my course with a zigzag pattern with legs a little longer than 15 nmi which corresponds to 2 hour legs at 7.5 kts, export the file from my navigation program in GPX format, then import into Windy, and use the D&P tool to plot a straight course with points that correspond to the zigzags. Then I picked a start time and date, looked at the forecast at point 1 for cloud cover, temperature, wind direction and strength and wave height and direction, then advanced the time by 2 hours and looked at the forecast at point 2. I repeated this process for each of the times/points along the route, then did this whole procedure for different start dates and times. I found the best day and time to make the passage with this process. During the passage, I made weather observations at each 2 hour interval, and the weather, wind and wave forecasts were very close, and the passage was comfortable.

One other improvement would be to automate this process. If the user could lay out a route with the D&P tool, set a speed, then enter a start date and time and have Windy display the forecast at each point along the route at its appropriate time, that would save a lot of manipulating the forecast tool time scale.

Thanks for a very useful tool.

Thank you for your post, however the place names are not controlled by Windy.

Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:

https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps

https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy

Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.

Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)

In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.

Thank you :)

@huseynzades

Please re-read my post to fully understand it.

The Map data is NOT controlled by Windy.

If you believe that the Map data is incorrect please follow the links to the Open Street Map forum to suggest corrections and discuss the situation there.

Your multiple other posts on this topic have been deleted and you have been Banned for 7 days. Continued insistence on discussing this topic here instead of at the Open Street Maps forum will result in a Permanent Ban from the Windy community.

Thank you for your understanding.

Windy does not create any forecast data but instead only visualises forecast and actual data received from various third party providers.

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