DNC and ENC production

[Hsing-JuChang]

Hi,

I would like to implement nautical solution in the enterprise production environment(a central database and several production databases).

These links talk about nutical production environments and data models.
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Nautical_production_environments/01060...
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//01060000022v000000

I need to output DNC, ENC, and paper charts. However, the NIS data model is based on S-57 feature objects. Does the NIS supprot DNC production? Is it possible to implement NIS for both DNC and ENC productions?

Any info on this would be appreciated.

Amy Chang

[NancyEl-Zeaiter]

Hi,

I would like to implement nautical solution in the enterprise production environment(a central database and several production databases).

These links talk about nutical production environments and data models.
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Nautical_production_environments/01060...
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//01060000022v000000

I need to output DNC, ENC, and paper charts. However, the NIS data model is based on S-57 feature objects. Does the NIS supprot DNC production? Is it possible to implement NIS for both DNC and ENC productions?

Any info on this would be appreciated.

Amy Chang

DNC is not supported in enterprise.  There are two main things to understand regarding this.  One is that  DNC production has never been supported in enterprise and there are no plans to do so.

Second, no one we know of has developed a conversion of S-57 objects to DNC VPF data.  There was a �??harmonization�?� group that looked into it, but it was basically deemed not feasible. 

Since VPF data is slowly being phased out, no one seems interested in mapping ENC to DNC or vice versa.

DNC production would have to be a completely separate implementation in the desktop environment.