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Visual Passage Planner 2 (VPP2) is a Windows desktop marine passage-planning software product from Digital Wave. It is not positioned as a developer tool in the traditional sense, but rather as professional software for marine navigation and offshore route planning. Based on official NOAA Pilot Chart data, it provides global maps, historical weather and sea-state data, port information, and automatic route optimization.
The core of VPP2 is “Pilot Chart-based route planning.” The software includes built-in global maps at a 1:1,000,000 scale and supports three projection modes: Spherical, Mercator, and Cartesian. Its Pilot Chart data covers global waters from 75°N to 75°S, with 12 months of 1-degree resolution data, including wind roses, ocean currents, average wind speed, gale probability, wave height, sea/air temperature, dew point, air pressure, icing, and more. It also includes the World Port Index published by NIMA, covering more than 4,600 ports with a large number of data fields.
The product uses a one-time purchase model priced at $49, with no subscription, renewal fees, or additional purchases. The official site also offers a 30-day demo, but it has clear limitations: it only provides January Pilot Chart data at 5-degree resolution and does not support automatic updates.
Its strengths are authoritative data sources, global coverage, transparent pricing, and the ability to automatically generate intermediate waypoints based on wind direction, ocean currents, vessel speed characteristics, wave height, or water temperature preferences, helping users find faster, safer, or more suitable routes. Its drawbacks are obvious platform limitations: it only states support for Windows 7/8/10/11. There is no mention of support for web, mobile, macOS, or Linux, nor any API, SDK, plugins, cloud collaboration, or real-time data integration.
It is better suited to offshore sailors, yacht captains, navigators, and anyone who needs to assess climate and ocean-current conditions before departure. From a developer-tool perspective, it is not suitable for teams that need programmable interfaces, automation integration, or secondary development capabilities.
The collected information does not provide details on access from mainland China, download speeds, or payment availability, so its accessibility in China is unknown.
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