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About ENCX
By Andrew Nibbs
Monday, December 06, 2004
Executive Summary
ENCX is a high performance SDK for the display of navigational charts. It allows software developers to add chart display to their programs. The SDK is developed by CherSoft who have twelve years experience in marine chart display systems. ENCX supports all the major chart data formats to allow good coverage worldwide. Commercial (encrypted) S-57/ENC data from Primar and IC-ENC is supported.
Technical Summary
ENCX is a COM library that provides the facility to manage a portfolio of vector and raster chart information (licensing, installation and updating of data). It handles conversions between pixel and geographic (latitude and longitude) positions. It can supply rectangles of chart in DIB (Device Independent Bitmap) form. It runs on Windows 2000 and more recent Windows operating systems.
Evaluation
ENCX, ENCX .NET controls and sample applications can freely be downloaded for evaluation purposes. When unlicensed the system is fully functional but only with the sample data supplied. ENCX is licensed using either a software or a hardware dongle.
Andrew Nibbs has developed software and managed projects for Chersoft for over eight years. He specialises in C++ and does a bit of C#.
