[Qgis-user] Can you help me?

[Antonio Mattei]

Dears Members,
I have read all the Qgis manual.
I found it a fundamental aid for navigation and I also found this very
interesting.
However, I couldn't understand out if Qgis can solve my problem or not…
.
At first glance I don't think so but I want to be sure of this.
So I try to explain better what I have to do, what I am looking for.
For the moment I have to chart a course without considering the prevailing
weather, winds and currents.
This is because I will have to leave on April 12, 2022 from Monaco in the
Mediterranean and return there after having touched 150 ports in an
expedition that will last about a year around the globe.
I accepted the assignment on behalf of the World Health Organization for a
Post Covid19 project. I have always been involved in Fundraising and NGOs
(Non-Governmental Organizations) and have been commander of commercial
boats since 1983.
The expedition will depart from Monaco (Monte Carlo, between Italy and
France) and will have to touch the 150 ports of the UN countries that have
access to the sea, before returning to Monte Carlo after about a year.
This is to raise awareness in all countries of the world and to bring
unused vaccines in richer countries to poorer ones.
It is an expedition in which all participants will be volunteers funded by
the European Union, the UN and the WHO.
We will start with an icebreaker and 8 different commanders will alternate
in command of which I will be the first and last and it is also up to me to
calculate the route.
Starting from Montecarlo then we will have to touch all the countries of
the world.
I am looking for help to do this.
My idea is to start from Monte Carlo and first touch all the countries of
the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, then go through Suez and
Circumnavigate Africa clockwise after also touching Pakistan and India, go
up to the Baltic Sea and Iceland and get to New York.
>From there go down to Cuba and then up to Suriname and then go back, go all
the Caribbean and pass in the Pacific from Panama to do the whole Pacific
coast, Cape Horn up to Rio Grande in Brazil and then up to Japan and
Australia.
Do all the Far East and then return to the Mediterranean from the Indian
Ocean and Suez.
But I'm not sure this is the shortest route.
This is why I am looking for a software or an app capable of automatically
calculating the best route starting from Monte Carlo and returning to Monte
Carlo after having touched 150 different ports.
Not a precise navigation route, which then should take into account the
weather, currents and winds and that we can do just before leaving, but a
rough route. A route that tells me in which sequence it would be better to
touch all the ports to cover the minimum distance and save as much fuel as
possible.
If you can help me or if you think Qgis is capable of doing this let
me know.
Greetings
Antonio
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