Determination of the shortest path as the basis for examining the most weather favorable routes

Generating initial population of evolutionary algorithms used in the process of weather ship route optimization requires the determination of the area where it may find the points of designated routes. The problem may be a need to sail around the continent, circumnavigate the islands, and the restrictions from the ice fields and other closed areas. Comparing routes to the rhumb line or great circle may be also impossible. It is proposed to determinate the preliminary route using Dijkstra's algorithm using land / ocean data of the GFS model. It will be used during generation an initial population on the ocean area in these cases.