Guidance on Licensing and Access for Programmatic Use of S-63 ENC Data in Custom ROS

[nelyy7]

Hi everyone,

We are developing an internal application that uses ROS (Robot Operating System) for autonomous navigation.

We are interested in using the S-63 ENC data to:

1. generate and update a costmap for our navigation stack, and
2. render ENC layers on a web interface for monitoring and planning (rather than on a traditional ECDIS device).

We would like to make sure we follow all IHO and vendor licensing requirements.

Do anyone know about:
- The appropriate licensing model or agreement for programmatic access to S-63 data,
- How we can obtain permits or keys for use in a custom software environment

Please let me know if you need any other information!

Thank you for your help!

[Lady_C]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-63_(encryption_standard)


https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/st...raft_Clean.pdf

[bcn]

Contact the IHO regarding S-63 OEM requirements and contacts.

Gone through that 2013 for OpenCPN and the S-63 plug-in....


Hubert