Calibrate charts in SVG format for OpenCPN ?

[LeaseOnLife]

Colombia's Oceanographic Institute publishes a cruising guide in pdf form.

see close to the bottom of this page:
https://www.cioh.org.co/index.php/libros.html

Embedded in there are >70 high quality charts. One can zoom way in and clearly see the details. I would like to use those charts and calibrate them to use in OpenCPN. So far I only know to produce KAP files, which relies on bmp/jpg/png raster images.

I was able to extract the charts as SVG files, not loosing detail, I think. Converting the SVG to see all detail on a raster bitmap will produce very large files.

Any better ideas?

I attach a sample file for people to play with (remove the pdf extension.

Thanks


Dirk

[rgleason]

Leaseonlife,


From the Chart Conversion Manual, it does not look like imgkap supports svg.
So you'll need to convert svg to another known format png, jpg tif and then to kap.
Then you can add the hearer postion information I think.
svg to png and svg to jpeg

I've never done this. Thomas may have some pointers for you.
They look worthwhile to do!

[bcn]

SVG is a vector format.

Inkscape has a function to export svg files to png/raster.
You can define if you want to export complete pages or some selections.

[LeaseOnLife]

Yes, but any conversion to raster and trying to keep all the details will lead to very large files. I was hoping for a way to SVG ==> S57 or something like it.

[did-g]

Originally Posted by LeaseOnLife

Yes, but any conversion to raster and trying to keep all the details will lead to very large files. I was hoping for a way to SVG ==> S57 or something like it.

The only free S57 writer I'm aware of is the josm OSM --> S-57 one and I've no idea if it's actually working.


So maybe SVG --> KML --> OSM --> S-57 but it won't be easy.


Did you try SVG --> KAP ? With a reasonable DPI and few colors it shouldn't be too bad, cf, official NOAA,NZ RNC size or the old 'community' international NOAA0 set.

[bcn]

SVG as such does not know about S-57 objects.
Would be a nice project, indeed.


The charts you found are probably created the other way around. From S-57 --> SVG


EDIT: ArcGIS will export S-57 --> SVG

[LeaseOnLife]

Originally Posted by bcn

SVG as such does not know about S-57 objects.
Would be a nice project, indeed.


The charts you found are probably created the other way around. From S-57 --> SVG

possible, but I don't have access to these :-)


on edit: the source I have is the pdf file I mentioned in first post. I will post a single page pdf with just the page for the svg file I posted.

[LeaseOnLife]

the pdf from which I extracted the svg: