Hi, I was curious if there was any ongoing activity to implement a new
DataStore to support the IHO S-57 format.

http://www.iho.shom.fr/

S-57 is the international standard for marine charts and navigation.
In the US, you can download all this data for free from NOAA.
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

There are several marine nav software packages that can read this data
and do real-time GPS tracking, etc.

Unfortunately, many of them are lacking or are costly.

It looks like someone was planning on developing a bridge to GeoTools
for this data using the OGR C++ library http://www.gdal.org/ogr/

A quick google search turns that up as the only possible activity.  A
couple quick questions:

Does anyone know of any technical hurdles that I should be aware of if
I try to pursue such a path with GeoTools?

My goal would be to write a native Java S-57 parser library that could
then be used by a new DataStore implementation that could then be used
by uDig...

Regards,
Davis

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Zeno Consulting, Inc.
http://www.zenoconsulting.biz
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313.884.2977 fax

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