You are welcome to start ... this is the first time I have heard of the data format. There is a datastore tutorial in the user guide; but it is a little dated. So no technical hurdles; just documentation hurdles. All the best, Jody
Davis Ford wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
