Navigation uses Fathoms not Nautical Miles for distance

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Navigation uses Fathoms not Nautical Miles for distance #17

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

When in Navigation mode and Nautical Miles is selected in Units all distances 
to Waypoints are in Fathoms.

While a fathom can be a measure of distance, in nautical terms a fathom is a 
measure of depth of water.

It would be more correct if distance was measured in nautical miles/decimal 
nautical miles.

Keep up the good work. Androzic gets better with each update.

Cheers,

Jon

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ctshow...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 9:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Can you clarify? Should I just write 0.001 nm? Or what?

In general I use smaller distance units when the waypoint is in 2000 units of 
measure, otherwise I switch to bigger distance units.

Original comment by novikov on 18 Nov 2010 at 2:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

A fathom is not a measure of distance in marine navigation. It is only used as 
a measure of depth of water on older charts and older depth sounders.

Using a distance of .001nm is correct.

cheers,

Jon

Original comment by ctshow...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2010 at 11:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by novikov on 19 Nov 2010 at 1:38

Changed state: Accepted
Added labels: Component-UI, Type-Enhancement, Usability
Removed labels: Type-Defect

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Fixed in 0.9.1b

Original comment by novikov on 21 Nov 2010 at 3:52

Changed state: Fixed