Adding and publishing ECDIS data

ECDIS data is stored either as individual cell files or as a catalog of cell files.

It’s recommended to add and serve ECDIS data on-the-fly only if it comes as a catalog. You can recognize catalogs by their file names:

  • CATALOG.031 for S-57 catalogs

  • CATALOG.XML for S-101 catalogs

Updating ECDIS files

The standard practice for storing ECDIS S-57 and S-101 data and their updates is storing the original information in files with a .000 extension. Any subsequent update is stored in files with incrementing numbers in the extensions: .001, .002, and so on.

To update such information in LuciadFusion Studio, you must do more than re-crawl the data root. You must update the modification date of the original .000 file as well. In the case of catalogs, update the modification date of the CATALOG.031 (S-57) and CATALOG.XML (S-101) files.

Handling encrypted files (S-63)

If you want to add encrypted S-63 data to LuciadFusion Studio, you must make sure that the right license and permit files, PERMIT.TXT and ENC.PMT, are located next to the data . For more information, see the S-63 information in the ECDIS format documentation.

Styling served ECDIS data

If you are publishing ECDIS data in a WMS service, you can customize its styling using SLD. The article How to customize the styling of WMS layers containing ECDIS data explains the LuciadFusion options in more detail.