Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.
Overview
The S-57 Reader module provides FME with access to data in International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57 formatted file sets.
While any S-57 dataset should be supported, this reader has only been fully tested with S-57 Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) profile products. Note that S-57 Editions 3.0 and 3.1 are supported.
The S-57 format is a standard published by IHO and more information can be found at:
An online, browsable web interface to the S-57 Object and the Attribute Catalog can be found on the Universal Systems website at:
http://www.universal.ca/S-57/frames/S57catalog.htm
Some aspects of an S-57 transfer, such as data quality information, is not accessible via the S-57 reader, however, a user well-versed in the S-57 format can extract it using the ISO8211 reader.
Note: This chapter also contains information applicable to the Additional Military Layers (AML) reader.