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From: Gerard Mittelstaedt (no email)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 01:32:12 EST
Hi,
I downloaded many of the online charts available on the NIMA
website...
Actually I downloaded all I could get, and that's quite a few.
They can be downloaded in batches, zipped.
Then I followed their links to the 3 different organizations that
had free software to read these charts.
One version would run on a Windows operating system below Win NT
and the other 2 demanded NT or above.
I loaded and ran the older version at home, and got a map of
sorts to display, but it is not very satisfying.
At work I have Win 2000 running and loaded one of the other
programs, but when attempting to view the chart selected I also
got a much less than satisfactory result.
I get water in blue, land in tan, bouys displayed, and where
there are bridges and one brings one's mouse pointer over them
the vertical clearance. I do not see any depth of water.
What am I doing wrong?
I asked a friend who works on aeronautical charts for the Army
(actually air navigation systems) and he never heard of the
file format.
Oh yes, when loading the chart file into the software one has
to select file type... that took some hunting around.
Any hints?
Gerard Mittelstaedt
McAllen, TX
USA
Jared Sherman wrote:
>
> Dan-
> I looked at the NIMA URL and found a reference that the data can be viewed through a program
found on the NIMA home page...except of course there is no
reference to that program on their
home page or in their serach engine, except in the referring page.
I'm not sure if the
application program can be downloaded (I've emailed to ask, but
the email query form generates an error message so I have no idea
if the query posted) and then the CD's must be purchase
separately?
>
> USGS-Information Services Tel: 1-800-435-7627 or 1-800-872-6277 if you really want to ask
them. I'm going to see if NIMA replies. (Excuse me, NGA, they're
not NIMA any more. Or maybe
they still are NIMA until 1/1/2004...I just hope those guys don't
have to buy new shoulder
patches every time their name changes.<G>)
-- --------------- Gerard Mittelstaedt McAllen, Texas USA
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