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electronic charts format
I am thinking of writing my own navigation software.
Not to save money, but just for the fun of it, and because I would like it to be an "open system" so that I can easily add features to it from time to time. I have sorted out the hardware but I am having problems with the electronic charts. The charts I would need right now have to cover the Baltic sea. When trying to find documentation about the "S-57" format I only find very "strange" documentation which is not very helpful. It is as if someone has made it obscure on purpose? It is very likely that I just haven't found the right documentation for this, but the ones I have found like: IHO TRANSFER STANDARD for DIGITAL HYDROGRAPHIC DATA Edition 3.1 - November 2000 Special Publication No. 57 are not very intuitive, compared to nearly any Internet RFC, which you just read and then start implementing it ... Are there any commercially available charts that can be used on a PC. And to make it clear, I have no intention of cracking any codes and I am more than happy to pay for these charts and "lock" them to the computer that I install them on. And how do you read these charts? Josce |
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