Opening a 008 File

The 008 file type is primarily associated with International S-57 Hydrographic Data.

008	File extension: 008
	File type:	Electronic Navigation Chart

What is a 008 file?

008 files mostly belong to International S-57 Hydrographic Data by US NOAA / US Army Corps of Engineers. A vector-based digital file containing marine features suitable for marine navigation. The file is based on the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57 standard. The file extension, ".000," for a base NOAA ENC cell is used for updating. The first update for a cell will be ".001" the next ".002" and so forth. The file extension .031 is used for catalog data (metadata) relating to the chart data.
Files with the extension 008 are often also jpg images or pdf documents, but zip compressed archives or medical images such as DICOM are also common. Use the Online 008 File Viewer on this page to find out the file format being used, and to view your 008 file.

How to open 008 files

You need a suitable software like International S-57 Hydrographic Data from US NOAA / US Army Corps of Engineers to open a 008 file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your 008 file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a 008 file directly in the browser:. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

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008 file format:

To find out what program is needed to open 008 files, you need to determine the file format. Each file format has a unique extension and almost always a unique signature. For example, Microsoft Word documents have the extension .docx and the signature (usually the first 3 characters in this file) PK. Nonetheless, different programs can utilize the same file extension to represent distinct file formats. Double-clicking on the file often results in an error when opening. Exact knowledge of the format is therefore important in order to solve problems occurring in files. Below is our analysis of the 008 files:

The 008 file extension is not widely used. Such a file covers a large number of different file formats. But the following two file formats are common:

• 4% of all 008 files are based on the well-known JPG file format. JPEG is the standard image format for lossy and compressed image data. They consist of unreadable binary data. The file size is in the range of 110 KB to 4 MB.

All the rest of the 008 files (96%) have different formats. Sometimes used for searchui, america, kimetsu, project, wyckoff, camrip, course, hhuuhh, slayer, cloud, demon, mugen, phone, train, yaiba or rprt. If you want to find out what your 008 file contains, drag and drop it onto this page.