NOAA Digital Raster Charts in BSB, any guidance on use with mapserver?

[Gary Watry]

The NOAA Coastal Service Center has a free program called chart projector
that will convert the format from BSB to Geotiff and you can set the
projection output as well.
 
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Gary L. Watry

GIS Coordinator
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
FSU / COAPS
Johnson Building, RM 215
2035 East Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2840
 
E-Mail: watry at coaps.fsu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Paul Turner
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 1:34 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] NOAA Digital Raster Charts in BSB, any
guidance on use with mapserver?

Howdy,

For 'free', both NOAA and Maptech have released the BSB versions of the 
NOAA raster charts - on NOAA's site, looks like around 1012 files. I've 
downloaded a couple of hundred and I'm wondering how best to manage this 
as there are maps with differing resolutions covering the same areas. 
I'm sure this is a solved problem so I'm hoping some kind soul out there 
might provide me with some guidance on how best to configure a map file 
to display these images in mapserver taking into account varying scales 
of these images - and here I'm aware of min/maxscale  - like I need to 
sort the files according to map scale and generate indexes for each 
group. Has someone already made a bundle of these guys? Bittorrent? Is 
there a WMS server (my preference)?

In case this is news, here are the links:

Lots of clicking, fast server

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/Index.htm

Slow server, signup required
http://www.freeboatingcharts.com


Thx,

--Paul

Paul J Turner
OHSU-OGI-CCALMR