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This isn't what the website is referring to. You should go read it. They literally give an example of a sailor entering a proposed navigation track into VMS whi
by mpyne 5y ago
This isn't what the website is referring to. You should go read it. They literally give an example of a sailor entering a proposed navigation track into VMS which is unsafe (it hits the seabed or comes close based on static data available to VMS) and yet VMS still doesn't warn about the unsafe track.
No one, least of all a qualified submarine officer, is proposing that VMS should somehow get a real-time feed of oceanographic surveys while deployed on active operations.
- jjk166 5y agoYeah, and if I steer into a brick wall my phone doesn't tell me anything either. I read the article, and I agree VMS could likely be better, but the map apps on your phone are not examples of navigation systems that have fixed VMS' problems.
- mpyne 5y agoThe author isn't suggesting to replace VMS with Google Maps. The author is suggesting to implement what VMS is meant to do with an application with the same level of usability, reliability and performance as what was put into Google Maps, and Apple Maps, or frankly any reasonably-popular mobile app that doesn't involve gaming. Do not confuse VMS with a turn-by-turn navigation system, that isn't what it does, or what an actually-usable replacement would have to do. VMS is meant to help plan a voyage and ensure you're safely executing to that plan in transit, and it doesn't do a good job of that for all the reasons the author provided.