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

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, today announced major changes ahead for mariners and others who ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Updates to both paper charts and electronic charts were becoming difficult to sustain, Poulin said. NOAA reallocated resources to enhance electronic chart features and introduced NOAA Custom ...

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 ...

Do we yearn for real-time chart data such as tides, weather, radar and navigation information? NOAA and its print-on-demand partner, Ocean Grafix (oceangrafix.com), are banking on us wanting that same ...

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 ...

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 ...