Oziexplorer and ENC/S57 data?

Anyone know if Oziexplorer will support this data format? If so....how?

Grimloc

I received an answer from Des Newman of Oziexplorer! Unfortunately....these
data are not yet supported. Hopefully in the future.

Regards.

JDJ wrote:

And hopefully soon. As an aside, if you are looking for a software that
supports that format now, Fugawi ENC will:

http://www.fugawi.com/docs/marineenc.html

But when I look at the amount of S57 chart coverage that is presently
available for US boating, I don't find a strong incentive to buy the ENC
package yet. Hopefully, and I think that is the plan, all the raster
charts from NOAA will be either converted to or also available as ENC
charts. The Fugawi page above gives a visual display of the areas
covered by ENC charts.

The Fugawi 3 and ENC packages seem pretty attractive and cost
competitive considering that applications for the PC, Pocket PC, and
Palm OS are included in the price along with detailed street maps of the
USA, or road maps of Europe, or a world geographic names CD-ROM. And
also a package of marine navigation planning charts.

What would be a downside for some folks is that the provided street maps
are not vector based so the software does not support automatic route
calculation. Nor does it give name search for destinations, voice
prompts, millions of POIs, and some of the other bells and whistles
found in most of the stand alone street and road navigation devices.

But it has great flexibility in the maps and charts it can use and looks
to have a strong attraction for those who prefer the charting/mapping
flexibility more than all the other bells whistles.

Given time for planning routes and transferring data files and maps to
the PDA, I don't mind doing over the road navigation with routes based
on waypoints plotted onto a topo map images. I realize that the maps
will not be current and I'll have to figure out of lot of things for
myself. But I still find it helpful and even enjoy it. It must be that

Jack

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JDJ schrieb:

If you want to use NOAA maps, there is a "workaround" building shp files:

Try the OGR Simple Feature Library http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/ogr
which contains ogr2ogr a smal DOS-tool, converting ENC data to shp format.

The example reads the ENC file "us2gc12m.000" and writes the shp files
to a folder called "shpout".
ogr2ogr -skipfailures -f "ESRI Shapefile" shpout us2gc12m.000

If you know somebody with ArcView GIS software, there´s an extension
which reads ENC and creates nice maps, which could be exported as raster
maps.

Tom

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