Thread: [ANNOUNCE] Roadmap 1.1.0i released with International Maps from openstreetmaps.org!
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kernelpanic is offline kernelpanic
2008-04-25 , 17:36
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#18
Originally Posted by dont View Post
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?
That would be the plan-
The main Roadmap branch at sourceforge.net includes the buildmap binaries. But they are command line tools. Pre-compiled maps would be provided for convenience, but users can still download the raw data and compile their own maps.

I did some test converting to shapefile format and some of the data is lost. So direct conversion from S-57 to rdm would be best. I'll have to look into the format some more.

Making this work would take-
1. getting the data into Roadmap format,
2. Adding icons and rendering rules for nautical features.
3. Adding 'Nautical' to the unit schemes beside 'Imperial' and 'Metric'

It would be cool though...

cheers,
kernelpanic