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What are you using to display the S-52 and S-63 charts on the web? I worked on a VTS product (a small vendor, not any of the big ones), and there I learned that
by skeletal88 6y ago
What are you using to display the S-52 and S-63 charts on the web?
I worked on a VTS product (a small vendor, not any of the big ones), and there I learned that:
1) The sea charts are hugely expensive, the chart sellers want to sell you a subscription for a limited amount of time, that would just disappear when the time is over. "safety" is their justification for it
2) There are no open source libraries for drawing charts, the desktop chart drawing libraries are expensive, and it seems that the web products that output WMS are even more expensive.
- hrishi 6y agoWe're focused on routing (shoreside) and not navigation at the moment, so we've been able to build a custom in-house map focused on the needs of crew managers and operators. Unfortunately you're right about the rest - it's a problem that's pervasive throughout maritime. We've had to build our own routing engine, port database, and much more that we initially expected to buy/use.