S-57 data
More to come
Basics
- Import with v.in.ogr
- There is a some info and links on the Export for GpsDrive wiki page
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