UBCSailbot / raye-global-pathfinding

UBC Sailbot's Global Pathfinding Repository: A* pathfinding that creates sailing paths with minimized length and desirable wind speeds throughout.
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Clarify wind speeds in kml and arrows in visualization #27

Closed tylerlum closed 3 years ago

tylerlum commented 4 years ago

As of right now, there are arrows of different color, size, heading, etc. However, it is not very clear what these mean.

What "size" is optimal? What is the "resolution" of the heading (is it only in 45 degree increments?) What are the different colors?

To properly test and verify this system, we should make it very clear what GOOD wind and BAD wind conditions are. Since 10-25 knots is optimal, we may want to make these wind levels green and others red? Is there some way to actually put the wind speed numbers on the arrows?

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