A Study on Development of Digital Nautical Publication

Oh, Se-woong; Park, Jong-Min

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2010;34(1):9-14.
Published online February 28, 2010.

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오세웅, 박종민

A Study on Development of Digital Nautical Publication

Se-woong Oh, Jong-Min Park

Abstract

Nautical Publications is a special purpose book, or a specially compiled database, that is issued officially by or on the authority of a Government, authorized Hydrographic Office and is designed to meet the requirements of marine navigation such as SOLAS and P5C Nautical publications include List of Lights, Sailing directions. The SNPWG(standardization Nautical Publications Working Group) from the IHO is working to implement in computer systems all those elements of interest for Hydrography and Navigation Concerning nautical publications' digitization process, the SNPWG has defined three types of nautical publications: Type 1 : Hard copy(NP1), Type 2 : Digital version, A slight modification of type 1(NP2), Type 3 : Digital version for ECDIS(NP3). Nautical Publications ís essential wíth nautical charts as reference information to navigate. Development of digital nautical publications is needed for liaison with the chart productíon system, up-to-dateness of hydrographíc information, improvement of service. But, Korean status ís positioned in NP1. In our study, we surveyed the present status of nautical publications for development strategy of digital nautical publications. We build database of south coast of sailing direction, develop a manager program， convert the contents to KML(Keyhole Markup Language)， develop a user program.

Key Words: Nautical Publication;SNPWG;Coast Pilot;eXtensible Markup Language