On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Malcolm Herring <malcolm.herring@btinternet.com> wrote:

On 16/08/2013 20:45, Nick Hughes wrote:
> Do you happen to know how much of the original data is retained and/or
> milage this convertor has seen?

It converts all the S57 objects & attributes within the ENC file, with
the option to selectively filter. The converter is an unfinished
project, in that the line/area object processing is incomplete. Since I
am in the the process of porting searender to Java, I have stopped work
on the original, with the long-term aim of doing direct 8211-OSM
conversion. However, the renderer must come first!

The only mileage s57toosm has seen is my testing it with random NOAA,
Dutch RWS & German WSV charts.

Ok, how far along is the Java port?

I converted one NOAA chart and opened the OSM.xml with JOSM.  Apologies if I'm a bit new to this, I'm usually developing kernel code.  It was just a bunch of dots representing nodes.  There were no icons for each node, which I suspect is correct behavior.  There was no information on depth soundings or buoy pathways.  So I'm suspecting that the converter needs enhancements in this area?

I will start by reading up on S-57 and ISO 8211.

Thanks again,

Nick