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Nautical charts with OSM ?

Апублікавана карыстальнікам adaviel 11 Жнівень 2009 на мове English

I wondered if there was any interest in adding marine features to OSM, or if there was a more appropriate equivalent ("openmarinechart" ??).

I have done some charting of small areas (too shallow/small to be of interest to commercial vessels) but there had been no way to share the data, or even to get it into my GPS as a map (MapDekode to Garmin, ugh!). Generally it's readings from an echosounder, hopefully corrected to Low Water by accounting for tides and transducer depth. I used manual entry, but I presume there are automatic solutions. In OSM, I guess one could add a spot depth as a point with appropriate attributes (units, datum, value)

I also wondered about generating terrain maps from GPS elevation data; there must be quite a lot of user data available now.

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Каментар ад HannesHH у 11 Жнівень 2009 у 06:23

http://openseamap.org/
It's currently the image of the week in the Wiki: osm.wiki/ ;)

Каментар ад burto у 11 Жнівень 2009 у 09:42

Support for marine POIs is just becoming available in mkgmap so in the future
you should be able to generate Garmin marine maps directly from OSM data.

Каментар ад alv у 11 Жнівень 2009 у 13:11

Do check if it applies in your country: some countries have made "systematic" depth measurements a licensed activity; they consider the data too interesting for hostile army vessels and want to keep some navigable waters a secret - thus the licensed surveyors need to present their data for "cleanup". But if they can't know who you are...

Someone did experiment with generating terrain data from a pile of gpx logs elevation data. I got the impression that only after tens of traces for each road the values start to converge to a reasonable presentation, i.e. without nonexistent hills or cliffs. And only for that road. Sorry, no link at hand.

Каментар ад POHB у 11 Жнівень 2009 у 13:30

I played with producing 3D images from traces I made while skiing. While they looked OK individually, several days traces contradicted each other about the height. This was with a Vista Hcx which has a barometric altimeter as well as GPS altitude.

Каментар ад Skippern у 12 Жнівень 2009 у 10:40

You can also help out with looking at Marine Mapping and the marine-tagging proposal. I have had an idea of harvesting ecco sounder data to build a sort of SRTM data source for depths, but havn't got the idea further than random thoughts.

-A

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