IHO Geospatial Information Registry

Introduction

The Producer Code Register contains Data Producer Codes for:

1. IHO Member States or Other States1 who are providers of official nautical charts or nautical publications issued by or on the authority of a government-authorized hydrographic office. These charts and publications are specifically produced to meet the requirements of marine navigation in accordance with the requirements of the Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Chapter V. The codes in these domains are used primarily for Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) and for other officially authorized products which supplement ENCs, such as nautical publications and marine information overlays.

S-57 Codes: The two-character Producer Code acronyms in these domains comprise two letters or a letter followed by a number; and are based, wherever possible, on the ISO 3166-alpha2 country code standard.

S-100 Codes: The four-character Producer Code acronyms in these domains generally comprise one or two letters followed by numbers to complete the four-character code. Where possible, the first two letters are based on the ISO 3166-alpha2 country code standard. In future the letters may be extended such as the first three characters of the code conform to the ISO 3166-alpha3 country code standard.

IHO States and Other States correspond to Tables 1 and 2 in the downloadable pdf.


2. Other Organizations/Entities who are any agency, organization, or private company that produces data that conforms to IHO standards, or IHO-derived standards, but that do not qualify for a Producer Code as described in 1 above (that is, datasets in this group are classified as “non-official” datasets).

S-57 Codes: With a few exceptions, the two-character Producer Code acronyms in this part of the Register generally starts with a number between 0 and 9 in order to clearly distinguish them from the States Producer Codes as described in 1 above.

S-100 Codes: For Other Organizations/Entities that have an S-57 Data producer Code, the four-character Producer Code acronyms in this part of the Register generally comprise the numbers "00" followed by the S-57 code. Where the Other Organization/Entity has an S-100 Data producer Code only, the code starts with a number between 0 and 9, followed by any combination of letters and numbers.

Other Organizations/Entities correspond to Table 3 in the downloadable pdf.


3. The list of Data Producer Codes under the “Codes” links above may be ordered alphabetically, forward or reverse, according to any of the columns in the lists. A csv version of the IHO Data Producer Codes is also downloadable from these lists.


4. A cumulative list of all major changes to the lists of Data Producer Codes (new or removed producers; changed numeric or alpha Agency Codes) is maintained on the IHO web site at: https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/S-62/S-62_Cumulative_List_of_Changes.pdf