Aids to Navigation. 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 ...

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 ...

Many recreational boaters are not aware that traditional Marine Navigation Charts will be phased out by Jan. 1, 2025 and will no longer be updated or available for purchase. The sunset plan ...

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 ...

"All charts sold by NOAA-certified agents are NOAA charts, and fully meet navigational standards." For the last 150 years, the federal government produced nautical charts using lithographic ...

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey has announced major changes ahead for mariners and others who use nautical charts. Starting April 13, 2014, the federal government will no longer print traditional ...

Today, nautical charts are kept scrupulously up to date. Every day, ... Paper chart sales at the UKHO are at 17% of what they were just a decade ago, says Bastable. Today, ...

Tablet computers continue to find new ways to make paper obsolete. The latest success: airlines are testing Apple's popular iPad for use in the cockpits of airplanes during commercial flights. But ...

Teledyne Geospatial has launched the CARIS AutoChart, a nautical chart production solution. Traditionally, the production of nautical paper charts has been labor-intensive and time-consuming. It often ...

For 400 years British hydrographers have made paper charts of the world's seas and oceans. Each one captures the detail of coastlines, bays, straits, or channels.