Creating an enterprise S-57 product (Maritime Charting)

With ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting, all S-57 products are created through the New Nautical Product wizard. This wizard is accessed from the series level in the Product Library tree view and can be used by those with Administrator, Edit, or Check In/Check Out product library permissions.

The wizard performs the following actions in an enterprise production environment.

• Creates the product, instance, and AOI levels in the Product Library tree view
• Writes the metadata entries to the Nautical Metadata table
  Note:

  If the Postpone Database Creation check box is checked, the process will only perform the two actions above.

• Creates the production database
• Versions and archives the necessary database items
• Creates the product extraction queries
• Extracts data from the Nautical Information System (NIS) database
• Builds the replicas between the production database and the NIS database

Note:

The administrator needs to add the editor to the permissions on the enterprise geodatabase in SQL Server so the editor can create a product.

The following sections guide you through each process of the wizard.

Accessing the wizard

When you first open the New Nautical Product wizard, the Overview area displays a description of all the processes you will encounter. In addition, there is a link to the AOI creation process help topic. Before you open the New Nautical Product wizard, you need to create the AOI features. It is mandatory that the AOI feature class be populated before you can complete the New Nautical Product wizard.

Steps:

1. Start ArcMap.
2. If necessary, open the Product Library window by clicking Customize > Production > Product Library on the main menu.

   A tree view of the product library appears.
3. If necessary, expand Product Library and Products.
4. Right-click the series for which you want to create a product and click New Nautical Product.

   The Overview area of the New Nautical Product wizard appears.

5. Review the content in the Overview area.
6. Click the About defining AOIs link to open the AOI creation help topic if you haven't created the AOIs.

   AOI features must be created before continuing.

7. Click Next.

Selecting the S-57 product AOI features

You need to select the product's AOI features that were prepopulated in the AOI feature class before opening the New Nautical Product wizard. You can select, unselect, identify, zoom in, zoom out, and pan. If you need to unselect individual features, you can use the Identify tool's right-click commands.

Steps:

1. Click the Zoom In button and drag a box around the area where your AOI features are located.
2. Click the Select button to select the AOI features.
   Tip:

   AOI features are color coded based on data usage. You need to select at least one AOI designated for data use, depicted with a solid fill. Press Ctrl or Shift to make multiple AOI selections.

3. Click Next.

Defining your S-57 cell name

By default, the agency value you enter in the Nautical Properties pane of the Production Properties dialog box is listed in the Agency drop-down list. You need to define the intended usage and the remaining five characters that make up the S-57 dataset name. The dataset name value you define is used as the product and instance-level names in the Product Library tree view.

Steps:

1. Click the Producing Agency drop-down arrow and choose an agency value if you want to change the value defined in the nautical properties.
2. Click the Intended Usage drop-down arrow and choose your S-57 product's intended usage value.
3. Type the remaining five characters of your S-57 product's dataset name in the Product Identification field.
4. Click Next.

Defining your S-57 metadata values

The dataset name value you defined previously is automatically set in the dataset name field of the product metadata view. You need to enter a value for the compilation scale, which is used to build your S-57 product's extraction query. For example, if you entered 20,000 as your compilation scale, the wizard references the Scaleband.xml file to get the next-highest compilation scale value. So, if the next-highest value stored in the Scaleband.xml was 25,000, the extraction query would be built to get all features falling within a 20,000 to 25,000 scale range.

When an S-57 cell has areas that were compiled at a different scale, the metadata object M_CSCL is used to represent these areas. To extract these areas into your product, the product's extraction query needs to be configured to hold both the S-57 cell's compilation scale and the M_CSCL feature's CSCALE scale value. The Nautical New Product wizard gives you an advanced option to enter these additional scale values.

Steps:

1. Click in the cell next to Compilation Scale of Data and type a value for your compilation scale.
2. Edit the rest of the metadata fields with the necessary values for your S-57 product.
3. If your product contains areas where the data compilation differs, continue to the next section; otherwise, click Next.

Defining compilation scale values for M_CSCL features (optional)

If your S-57 product contains M_CSCL metadata features, you need to set their compilation scale values using the Define M_CSCL option in the Product Metadata area.

Steps:

1. Click Define M_CSCL.

   The Enterprise Setup dialog box appears.

2. Click Add.

   A row is inserted in the Compilation Scale Ranges area.

3. Click the Lower Bound drop-down arrow and choose a value for your largest M_CSCL feature's CSCALE value.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for additional M_CSCL values you need to insert.
5. Click OK.

   The Product Metadata area appears.

6. Click Next to view a summary of your values.

Postponing database creation (optional)

If your enterprise product requires unique extractions settings apart from the series it belongs to, you can check the Postpone Database Creation check box to allow the product level in the Product Library tree view to be built without creating the production database. You can then edit the product's custom extraction settings before executing the Create Database command.

Steps:

1. Check the Postpone Database Creation check box.
2. Click Next.

Reviewing the summary

The summary shows you the metadata entries you entered before starting the product creation process.

Steps:

1. Review the metadata entries.
2. If necessary, click Back to go back to the Product Metadata area and make any corrections.
3. Click Finish.

   A progress dialog box appears with the status of the creation process.

4. Click OK when the process completes.

Once your S-57 product is created, it is checked in to the product library, and you need to check it out to begin working on it.