Vector Chart Object Search Plugin for OpenCPN

This plugin provides a search interface to the objects on the vector charts in OpenCPN. Note that it indexes the objects on the charts which were loaded at least once with the plugin enabled.

Building

This assumes you have already seen the building instructions at http://opencpn.org/ocpn/compiling_source_linux or http://opencpn.org/ocpn/compiling_source_windows and can build OpenCPN from source.

Linux:

git clone https://github.com/nohal/objsearch_pi.git
cd objsearch_pi
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Windows:

You must have opencpn.lib created while OpenCPN application is built in the build folder. If you don't want to make one yourself, there are several prebuilt versions at https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpnplugins/files/opencpn_lib/ - you need one corresponding to version newer than 3.3.2028

git clone https://github.com/nohal/objsearch_pi.git
cd objsearch_pi
mkdir build

Copy opencpn.lib into the newly created build folder

cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config release

CSV Data Import

The format of the CSV is simple: Lat, Lon, Object name, Feature name,"Source" name[[,Scale],PPM Scale] Strings containing commas of course have to be quoted, the scale fields are optional