NOAA's Office of Coast Survey, part of the National Ocean Service, is the nation's nautical chartmaker. A nautical chart is one of the most fundamental tools available to the mariner. It is a map that ...

In November 2019, the Office of Coast Survey (OCS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), announced the start of a five-year program to “sunset” all raster and paper ...

When I traveled around Europe as a young man, my first stop upon leaving the train station in a new city was at the tourist bureau kiosk for a paper city map. On a recent trip to Malaysia, I used my ...

Provide detailed information about hidden dangers so navigators don’t hit anything or run aground! Provide no information about the conditions of a road. Are used by navigators to plot their own ...

Motor boaters, sailors, and cruisers who want to ride the cutting‐edge crest of navigation with mobile devices can now take advantage of NV charts App, a new, simple‐to‐use free app now available from ...

Experts have unlocked secrets hidden for two hundred years in a beautiful navigational chart made for 18th century seafarers negotiating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The paper scroll is evidence ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From catalog card: "Directional chart ...