Yilmaz Arslanoglu wrote:
Hello everybody;
I was just wondering whether there is a specific directory structure
that needs to be followed
in order to open an S-57 file collection by giving a single directory
path, instead of a file with a .000 extension.
I'm asking because, according to the following statement from OGR IHO
S-57 (ENC) Driver
documentation, we would be able to pass a directory name.
An S-57 dataset can be a directory (in which case all S-57 files in the
directory are selected),
an S-57 catalog file (in which case all files referred to from the catalog are
selected) or an individual S-57 data file.
Yilmaz,
On review of the code it appears the documentation is wrong and
multiple file access was never fully implemented. I have updated
the documentation accordingly.
However, when I try to open with a directory name using
"OGRSFDriverRegistrar::Open", I get an error.
As another question:
S-57 update files contain information on how to update a distributed S-57 base
data file.
The base files normally have the extension .000 while the update files have
extensions like .001, .002 and so on.
The S-57 reader will normally read and apply all updates files to the in memory
version of the base file on the fly.
The feature data provided to the application therefore includes all the updates.
So how OGR decides to look for the extension files? Because as far as
I can see, ENC catalogues may come
with different directory structures, where in some of them all update
files accompany the original one in the same directory,
however they may also come in another directory in some others.
The driver will only find update files if they are in the same directory
as the .000 file, have names like .001, etc and a shared basename.
Best regards,
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