[GRASS5] [bug #2003] (grass) Integrated IHO S-57 Standard

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Subject: Integrated IHO S-57 Standard

Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 5.0 as of 10Apr03

Nick Neely:

My suggested GRASS improvement is inclusion of read/write capability of International Hydrographic Institute (IHO) S-57 standard for Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC).  In the U.S., and elsewhere I presume, it is possible to download comprehensive databases of waterway data (free of charge) that would satisfy a huge segment of maritime GIS data needs.  ArcView has an ENC reader and I think that to keep GRASS fairly competitive as an alternative to expensive commercial software, S-57 should be an integrated read/write format.  Some open source work has been done on this already (http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/s57/index.html) so the GRASS development team wouldn't be doing everything themselves.

Thanks for your time.

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