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Catalogs of freely available electronic nautical navigation charts in XML format
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Add ACE buoy chart catalog #7

Closed transmitterdan closed 8 years ago

transmitterdan commented 8 years ago

This chart catalog must be manually created by the user until another PR is accepted for the chart downloader pi in OpenCPN master. The URL link to this catalog is:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chartcatalogs/catalogs/master/ACE_BUOY_Catalog.xml

nohal commented 8 years ago

Dan... Thanks a lot. To make it maintainable, we should probably implement directly the catalogs from http://ec2-54-235-76-27.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ienc/web/main/ienc_007.htm - They look great... exactly until you look at http://ec2-54-235-76-27.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ienc/web/main/ienc_013.cfm and realize they are incomplete. :) Anyway, I'm merging for now.

Pavel

transmitterdan commented 8 years ago

I know it's a pain in the _$$ because to keep this catalog current requires weekly manual updates. I agree we need to implement something that is automatic.

Are you sure there is in fact extra information in the New Orleans district overlay files? I could not see anything when I added that overlay to the ACE Inland chart group.

nohal commented 8 years ago

No, I'm not sure. I have never seen these overlay cells and am not sure OpenCPN is able to display them at all at this moment.

The catalog format is pretty trivial, I just have to decide whether implement it directly or do the conversion using script on my server running in a cron job once a week (less work, but will require me to remember I'm actually doing it so less viable)