S-57 data

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Basics

Obtaining data

Worldwide

  • ...

Cananda

  • ...

USA

  • Free ENCs for the USA from NOAA
(see the Gpsdrive page above)


Accessing S-52 symbology

S-57 is the data format. The S-52 standard contains the standardized coloring and symbology for electronic navigation charts

  • Interface to display imported S-57 data using S-52's coloring and
  • With the OpenEV plugin (functional)
  • As a QGIS plugin (wishlist)


libS52

  • GPL library
  • housed in OpenEV CVS as contrib/S52/

How to build

  • Get source
  • Install dependencies
  • make # for s52glxsimple
  • make default # for shared lib

Testing

  • s52glxsimple
edit S52/s52test.conf with the full path to your downloaded ENC dataset (the .000 file)
  • OpenEV plugin