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

[Radim Blazek]

On Monday 07 July 2003 15:32, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2003
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> Subject: Integrated IHO S-57 Standard
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> 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
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> Nick Neely:
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> 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.

v.in.ogr in 5.1. Direct support for reading (without conversion)
for OGR is under construction.

Radim