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

[Josh Livni]

I am not super familiar with BSB/KAP format, but if you can find someone 
with access to ESRI software, 
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/chartview/ may do the trick

Personally, I enjoy using GDAL for most of my raster translation needs. 
  Googling for 'bsb geotiff' had this page high in the ranks:
http://home.gdal.org/~warmerda/projects/bsb/index.html


   -Josh

> Christopher A. Scott wrote:
> 
>> 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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