Displaying NOAA Charts in .NET

Question

NOAA provides free nautical charts in two formats:

1) "NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts® (NOAA ENCs) are vector data sets that represent NOAA's newest and most powerful electronic charting product. NOAA ENCs conform with the International Hydrographic Office (IHO) S-57 international exchange format"

2) "NOAA Raster Navigational Charts® (NOAA RNCs) are full-color digital images of NOAA's entire suite of paper charts...in the BSB format."

Does anyone know of any open source routines to use and display these formats in Microsoft's .NET?

Answer 1

Google seems to provide good links, such as:

• ENC
• BSB

Why didn't you say you'd looked there and couldn't find anything you could use?

Answer 2

You might take a look at SharpMap

• http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap

Answer 3

How can I read a S-57 chart using SharpMap? user guide ? I loaded and dopend the project in the source code. Not sure how to proceed. Regards Bill

Answer 4

since I asked the above question I found a tutorial for reading shape files from spatial Hozizons (at: http://spatialhorizons.com/2007/10/14/using-sharpmap-1/). I am looking for somthing like this but for the s-57 file with extension 0000. Appreciate if anyone knows how. Regards Bill E