As announced here a few days ago by GPS_Marco of NZ
charts fame, LINZ, the hydrographic
service in NZ will be switching from the TIFF to the
BSB format for the raster
charts they make freely available to all.
Opencpn is on the list of apps that can read those charts.
A test set of a handfull of these
BSB charts is available
See statement on
NZMariner - Official Raster Navigational Charts (RNCs) | Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) - Toit
The link is
http://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/defaul.../BSB_NZTDS.zip
They are requesting comments and include a questionnaire in the download folder.
Now question 10 seems to imply that some of these bsb charts include notes
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Q.10 Chart Notes
(a) Where available, are BSB chart notes available for viewing in the chart display software (eg. NZ5113, NZ8645)?
Y / N
(b) Where not captured as specific BSB notes, are chart notes readily accessible on the face of the BSB chart?
Y / N
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Note: BSB chart notes are usually accessed via a right-click menu option when a chart is being displayed. We are proposing for NZ BSBs that only chart notes which fall outside the geographic extent of chart (ie. outside the neatline border) are to be captured. The 'See Related Publications' note in the top right corner of the chart is an example of a note which will be captured.
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As far as I am aware,
Opencpn does not provide the capacity of displaying notes attached to BSB charts...
I suggest this matter should be looked at...