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

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:32:09PM +0200, 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
> 
> 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.

v.in.ogr in GRASS 5.1 should be able to read it. Tried with:
 http://www.digitalocean.ca/DigitalOcean%20E-Store/Sample_data/s57.zip

Note that I have applied a small fix right now, so only the
current CVS contains the fix (grab from there). The end-of-the-week 
CVS source code snapshot as well as the precompiled binaries will
be created next Saturday morning.

Cheers

 Markus