Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-17 Thread Markus
Hi Nick, I will start by reading up on S-57 and ISO 8211. There is a ISO 8211 plugin for FME: http://docs.safe.com/fme/reader_writerPDF/iso8211.pdf Best regards, Markus ___ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-17 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 16/08/2013 23:38, Nick Hughes wrote: Ok, how far along is the Java port? I converted one NOAA chart and opened the OSM.xml with JOSM. Apologies if I'm a bit new to this, I'm usually developing kernel code. It was just a bunch of dots representing nodes. There were no icons for each

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-17 Thread Nick Hughes
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Markus liste12a4...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Nick, I will start by reading up on S-57 and ISO 8211. There is a ISO 8211 plugin for FME: http://docs.safe.com/fme/reader_writerPDF/iso8211.pdf FME looks promising, however has no information about license fee's. I

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-17 Thread Andrzej Popowski
Hi, I'm looking for a method to convert S-57/ENC NOAA marine charts to Garmin format. S-57 is supported by ogr2ogr, Quantum GIS and Gloabal Mapper. First two are free, you can use them to convert data to shp, which should be easy to process further. Global Mapper is commercial software and

[mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Nick Hughes
Hi Folks, I'm looking for a method to convert S-57/ENC NOAA marine charts to Garmin format. I suspect similar functionality would also be useful for pulling this data into OSM format as well. NOAA updates their vector based charts regularly, so it's a good data source now. My research has

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Malcolm Herring
Nick, You may interested in this thread: http://sourceforge.net/p/openseamap/mailman/message/31270792 Also, RheinSkipper, a regular contributor to this newsgroup, has done a lot of work on making marine charts with mkgmap and will doubtless share his experiences.

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Nick Hughes
Malcolm, I feel a bit relieved that others have some knowledge in this area. Interestingly enough, I'm in the New York area as the post mentions. Your utility claims to convert S57-OSM. Do you happen to know how much of the original data is retained and/or milage this convertor has seen? I

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Markus
Hi Nick, I'm looking for a method to convert S-57/ENC NOAA marine charts to Garmin format. :-) Transform it first to OSM (see OpenSeaMap scheme). There is a approved tool working as plugin with FME. If you find an access, the transformation seems to be easy. Malcolm has written a

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 16/08/2013 20:45, Nick Hughes wrote: Do you happen to know how much of the original data is retained and/or milage this convertor has seen? It converts all the S57 objects attributes within the ENC file, with the option to selectively filter. The converter is an unfinished project, in

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Nick Hughes
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: On 16/08/2013 20:45, Nick Hughes wrote: Do you happen to know how much of the original data is retained and/or milage this convertor has seen? It converts all the S57 objects attributes within the ENC

Re: [mkgmap-dev] Converting S-57/ENC - Garmin Format?

2013-08-16 Thread Nick Hughes
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Nick Hughes nixon8...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: On 16/08/2013 20:45, Nick Hughes wrote: Do you happen to know how much of the original data is retained and/or milage this