<div>Me too! I want to use it on my boat. I'm sure there are others with the same need.</div> <div> </div> <div>Terry Lesh<BR><BR><B><I>Bill Bickley <bbickley@kentgov.org></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I would dearly appreciate a tutorial on how to generate a GPSDrive map<BR>using the free NOAA EMC maps, tailored to the neophyte Linux user. A<BR>Google search of GPSDrive in marine applications turns up essentially<BR>nothing.<BR><BR>Bill<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: gpsdrive-bounces@lists.gpsdrivers.org<BR>[mailto:gpsdrive-bounces@lists.gpsdrivers.org] On Behalf Of Hamish<BR>Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:27 AM<BR>To: GPSdrive discussion list; tartifola@gmail.com<BR>Subject: Re: [ gpsdrive ] Nautical maps<BR><BR>Hamish wrote:<BR>> Also common for the US are BSB format raster charts (usually you buy<BR>> the CD of your part of the coastline),
but beware that newer editions<BR>> may be encrypted for no other reason I can think of but pure<BR>> corporate<BR>> greed.<BR>> GDAL can read those too. <BR><BR>^^ I did not mean to imply that GDAL will decrypt encoded BSB charts.<BR>It won't!<BR><BR><BR>Stuart:<BR>I read somewhere that cm93 format is S57 compliant?? If so gdal's OGR<BR>could read it and so there will be a pathway into gpsdrive.<BR><BR>try 'gdalinfo' or 'ogrinfo' on the files to see if they can read it.<BR><BR>As far as I can recall the official gov't UK raster charts came in<BR>useless-for-us encrypted form. No idea about what's common for the Med.<BR><BR><BR>Hamish<BR>(New Zealand, but done my fair share of blue water sailing in the<BR>atlantic)<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>________________________________________________________________________<BR>____________<BR>Be a better friend, newshound, and <BR>know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it
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