[Gdal-dev] Nautical Charts

[Roger Bedell]

FYI, I also found this site:

www.marineplanner.com

which sells seemingly the same BSB charts as MapTech (non-encrypted) for
about $9.00 each. These were successfully read by GDAL.

Roger

Roger Bedell, President, Sylvan Ascent Inc.
roger at sylvanascent.com
505-758-7712
www.sylvanascent.com
www.pocketterra.com
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: gdal-dev-admin at remotesensing.org
[mailto:gdal-dev-admin at remotesensing.org] On Behalf Of Norman Vine
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:12 PM
To: gdal-dev at remotesensing.org
Subject: RE: [Gdal-dev] Nautical Charts

Todd Jellett writes:
>  
> Obviously, MapTech considered encryption to be cheaper than legal action.

Or perhaps they came to the 'realization' that the patent they bought was
for
creating files in a specific format not on reading files in that format :-)

also see
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/chartreproj.html

and it is always worth rumaging around at the 'source'
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/
for alternative charts unencumbered by patent see the ENC links

Cheers

Norman

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