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