[ gpsdrive ] mediterranean sea nautical charts on gpsdrive

[Hamish]

schrieb carlo mecozzi:
> > > thanks for answering Jorg, but I do not understand
> > > what I should add to the FAQ,

If you are unsure of the content, I would suggest to compose any hints
and tips in the GpsDrive wiki, then we can review and add it into the
source code distribution when it's ready.

http://gpsdrive.wiki.sourceforge.net

> > and what about free nautical charts of mediterranean sea?

some time searching the mailing list archives may give some hints,
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.gps/3920/focus=3923


I have no idea about sources of charts for the Med. Only that GDAL (www.gdal.org) can read (unencrypted) BSB softcharts and S-57 ENC format
and that you can use a combination of GDAL and other free GIS tools to
convert those into GpsDrive tiles.

If you have paper charts you can scan them and then geo-register them
so the computer knows that that grid line means 15degrees W, etc.


> > The idea was, that you collect all the information you and
> > Hamish get about this subject and write a small FAQ for this.
> > Things like:
> > 	- Where to get them?
> > 	- How to convert them?
> > 	- How to import them?
> > 	- Other specialties ...

I have now loaded in some info from the old wiki which I was able to
scrape from archive.org.

Go for it.



Hamish