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
>
>   


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