June 20, 2006 10:04
Thanks for your comments.
ARCS and BSB are functionally similar; both are raster images of paper charts with various metadata added. The differences are mainly the file format and the security/encryption schemes which mean that unfortunately the two are not compatible.
I wrote PassagePlus mainly because there was no OS X application that would open ARCS charts.
I'm not sure whether I will do an ENC application. MacENC already handles S57, and my hope is that S57 will become more or less standard and we won't have a bunch of incompatible vector formats. Certainly I won't do anything on ENC yet because, for now, I still have a lot of work to do on improving PassagePlus.
Regards
Jon
ARCS and BSB are functionally similar; both are raster images of paper charts with various metadata added. The differences are mainly the file format and the security/encryption schemes which mean that unfortunately the two are not compatible.
I wrote PassagePlus mainly because there was no OS X application that would open ARCS charts.
I'm not sure whether I will do an ENC application. MacENC already handles S57, and my hope is that S57 will become more or less standard and we won't have a bunch of incompatible vector formats. Certainly I won't do anything on ENC yet because, for now, I still have a lot of work to do on improving PassagePlus.
Regards
Jon