[Xastir] Nautical Charts

[Curt, WE7U]

In case anyone is interested in such things.  Not sure whether we
can read these with our GDAL support yet.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:02:00 -0600
From: Roger Bedell <roger at pocketterra.com>
Reply-To: gdal-dev at remotesensing.org
To: gdal-dev at remotesensing.org
Subject: RE: [Gdal-dev] Nautical Charts

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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