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Excellent! Thank you Jim!
Jim Theriot wrote:
>Oliver,
>
>IHO S-57 is the official standard for Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC).
>
>http://www.iho.shom.fr - International Hydrographic Office web site
>http://www.iho.shom.fr/ECDIS/s57intro.htm - IHO Special Publication 57
>(S-57)
>http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm - Download NOAA charts
>(free)
>
>Jim
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Navigation Mailing List
>[mailto:]On Behalf Of Olivier Le
>Diouris
>Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 5:48 PM
>To:
>Subject: Hlep on Digital Charts
>
>
>Hello List,
>I have written some (open source, free) logging software, in Java, that
>works pretty well for me (see links below).
>I'd like to make them a bit richer, by using a chart in the background,
>that sometimes helps!
>
>Does anyone know if there is any "official" or recommended standard for
>this kind of data? If yes, is it documented somewhere?
>What I mean is that, if I have access to nautical charts in this format,
>will I find somewhere enough information to render those charts using my
>own program, even if I have to write it?
>
>I found some interesting info at http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/, but I
>have not been able to find explanation about this format...
>Any idea, hint, clue, link, etc, most welcome!
>
>Thank you all,
>- Olivier
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>http://olivier.lediouris.net/sailing/dashboard/tutorial/gettingstarted/index
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