[mapserver-users] Re: s-57 Nautical Charts

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 6/7/2011 12:27 AM, Sila Khan wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Sila Khan <silasharmeen at gmail.com
> <mailto:silasharmeen at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi
>     Dear map server users! as m new to map server,i want to import
>     nautical charts on map server,how and in which format it z possible?
>     Does map server supports s-57 or .BSB formats.plz share your
>     experiences regarding the tool to view nautical charts or how to
>     load them in map server.
>     Thanks

Sila,

I few of us have done some stuff with nautical charts. To start with you 
will likely want to use GDAL/OGR. OGR can read S-57 formats. I would 
recommend converting the layers you want to shapefile format using ogr2ogr.

You need to separate the data into polygon, lines, and point data. Then 
you will need to create a mapfile for rendering the various data layers 
at the scales you are interested in. You will need to develop symbols 
the match the symbology of the nautical charts. Maybe some of the other 
users have symbols they are willing to share. For my own efforts, I only 
experimented with it briefly and did not develop many of the symbols and 
that was about 5-8 years ago and I can not find any of that effort at 
this point.

You might also looks at:
http://www.iho.int/english/home/
http://www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/IHO_Download.htm

These might have links to documents the describe the symbology that you 
need to develop.

-Steve W