NOAA has now authorized seven companies to sell NOAA's paper nautical charts that are printed when the customer orders them -- or "on demand." ...

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation’s suite of over a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, today announced major changes ahead for mariners and others who ...

The tan and blue paper nautical charts that line wheelhouses and galleys on Alaska ships will soon be a relic of the past. In an effort to increase automation and adapt to digital navigation, the ...

Majer’s father taught him how to read the paper charts, and he still buys them as backups. But with two laptops, two tablets, ... Amid the rise of GPS, NOAA weighs a move away ...

By digitizing the paper Erie Canal charts, NOAA can now provide ENCs for the canal from Albany to Lake Ontario. As part of the digitizing process, NOAA cartographers standardized the chart scales ...

On raster charts, you’ll see the simplified symbols found on NOAA paper charts. (Paper charts also can have black and white line drawings to show navaids.) For example, a floating green or red buoy ...

In Cost-Cutting Move, NOAA To Stop Printing Nautical Charts : The Two-Way Starting in April, ... "We used to stock lots of paper charts, but we couldn't keep everything," he says.

In a recent column I wrote about options for nautical charts, including "print on demand" charts. But since GPS based chartplotters are so common—I even have a small portable unit on my 18-foot ...

The tan and blue paper nautical charts that line wheelhouses and galleys on Alaska ships will soon be a relic of the past. In an effort to increase automation and adapt to digital navigation, the ...

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation’s suite of over a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, announced major changes ahead for mariners and others ...