[UW-GIS-L] NOAA chart DRG source?

[Christopher A. Scott]

Thanks,

We have all of the tide station data (we are oceanographers working on 
the stations themselves).

The problem is that NOAAs RNCs are in a proprietary format (.BSB and 
.KAP which was developed by Maptech if I recall correctly). I actually 
just found a utility that will allow me to open .KAP files in Photoshop 
and save as TIFFs, which will work for now, but I'd really like to be 
able to convert them to GEO TIFFS.

The import utility can be found here: 
http://www.apocgraphy.com/BsbImport/Default.htm

Cheers,
Chris



David Finlayson wrote:
> Several vendors sell digitized NOAA charts (i.e., Maptech). Usually
> they also have GIS-like software for charting and navigating with a
> GPS unit. I am sure that you could adapt one of these to plot tide
> gage locations on a digital chart.
>
> As for the locations of tide stations, each NOAA tide gage is
> associated with a tidal benchmark. Both the gages and the tidal
> benchmark sheets are online at the NOS web site.
>
> If you want a real GIS but don't have the funds for ESRI. Try GRASS
> (http://grass.itc.it/).
>
> David
>
> On 5/22/06, Christopher A. Scott <chris at scottbass.com> wrote:
>> The company I am working with has a contract with NOAA that requires
>> location maps of tide gages using NOAA charts up the Pacific coast.
>>
>> I am having a very difficult time finding rasters with decent
>> resolution. At this time I do not have GIS capability (working with
>> small office that doesn't have these resources). So I am using AutoCAD
>> and I need TIFF files (or equivalent). Geo-referenced DRGs would be nice
>> but not necessary.
>>
>> Does anybody have any ideas? Screen-shots from NOAA's on line viewer
>> (http://www.nauticalcharts.gov/viewer/)
>> just doesn't cut it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
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