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2008-04-25 , 17:08
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#17
Originally Posted by kernelpanic View Post
It looks like there may be open source software to convert S-57 to shapefiles(openev). I'm downloading the charts now. If I can get this to work who wants to host them?

As you have noticed, the files are big and there are a lot of them. Furthermore, they updated frequently with "Notices to Mariners".

Rather than hosting converted files, maybe it would be better to package up the converter so that folks could dl the NOAA originals and do their own conversions?