[Xastir] Maritime Charts on Xastir

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Eric Christensen
<eric at christensenplace.us> wrote:
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> I'm trying to figure out how to utilize maritime charts on Xastir.
> Specifically I was looking at integrating the NOAA
> (http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/AtlanticCoastViewerTable.shtml)
> charts.  Has anyone done this?

A bit of googling around leads me to suspect you can download the
"RNC"s (raster files), then use an apparently free utility to
re-project and convert them to geoTIFF (I'm guessing GDAL would
convert them, too).

The vector data showed up as a (useless) bunch of points when I tried
that route.

-Jason
kg4wsv