Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
Here's a little follow-up on what NOAA is doing with the nautical
charts. The NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) are available for free download over the Internet. Weekly updates are also available for free download. About 540 of these vector-based electronic charts are available, and more are added as NOAA finishes them. They comply with the International Hydrographic Organization standard S-57. The download site starts at http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/MCD/enc/index.htm. The NOAA Raster Navigational Charts (RNCs) are also available for free download over the Internet. Cumulative updates of Notice to Mariners corrections are available weekly at the RNC download site. Nearly all of NOAA's 1,021 charts are available. The RNCs are in the .BSB format, and conform to the International Hydrographic Organization standard S-61. The download site starts at http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/Index.htm. NOAA has also posted nearly all of its charts on the Internet for free viewing using any web browser. These posted charts are updated weekly for all Notices to Mariners. The On-Line Viewer site starts at www.NauticalCharts.gov/viewer. This is a new service, and NOAA has provided a "Click Here to tell us what you think" button on the site to solicit your comments. For those who are GIS users, NOAA is providing a free, on-line translator to query the ENCs for selected feature categories, and then translate and download those feature categories in popular GIS formats. The service is called "ENC Direct to GIS", and the Internet site starts at http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/...direct_new.htm. |
#2
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
|
#3
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
I'm with you. I pay a lot of money for charts and I have already paid
the taxes to have them made. Our government has long thought that we are subjects when in fact, they government is subject to us. Too bad more people don't know that they own the country and we are a government OF the people FOR the people. Too bad people keep calling us a democracy when in fact we're a republic - and too bad they don't even know what a republic is! |
#6
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
Uhhhhhh, Larry?????
Could you please forward this on the to good folks at CHS, Candian Hyrdological Service (or some variant of that attempted spelling.) The situation for Canadian charts is much differnet, and MUCH more expensive. While I agree with all you say, the situation state-side is much better. At least on this particular topic. Howard Larry wrote: wrote in news:1141306157.505568.65190 @z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com: The NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) are available for free download over the Internet. I'd like to correct the notion behind this, Dave..... NOAA is not providing free charts. NOAA is providing its TAXPAYERS a SERVICE for the money that has been extracted from them by force. NO service provided to any taxpayer, in any country, should be fee-based. The taxpayers have already paid through-the-nose for the service or data and should not be charged twice for its delivery or use.... It's not you, Dave. It's the entire bureaucratic establishment that thinks it's some kind of business that needs to sell something..... Thanks for the information on its retrieval! Nautical chart delivery has been long overdue, I suspect because of lobbying by commercial interests that have always sold the taxpayers the data they continue to already pay for. Weather data was also long sold for profit, but that has busted wide open in the past few years. |
#7
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
Dave wrote:
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:02:59 -0500, Larry said: NOAA is not providing free charts. NOAA is providing its TAXPAYERS a SERVICE for the money that has been extracted from them by force. NO service provided to any taxpayer, in any country, should be fee-based. The taxpayers have already paid through-the-nose for the service or data and should not be charged twice for its delivery or use.... So, Larry, 'splain to me again why you and I and other yachtsmen deserve to have those folks out in Arizona pay for our charts. Or why we Canadians can download them for free......or anyone else. |
#8
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:31:27 GMT, Gary wrote:
Or why we Canadians can download them for free......or anyone else. They are not free to Canadians, George W will explain the terms and conditions later on. :-) |
#9
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
"Da Kine" wrote in message ups.com... I'm with you. I pay a lot of money for charts and I have already paid the taxes to have them made. Our government has long thought that we are subjects when in fact, they government is subject to us. Too bad more people don't know that they own the country and we are a government OF the people FOR the people. Too bad people keep calling us a democracy when in fact we're a republic - and too bad they don't even know what a republic is! Da Kine, What's the difference between a republic and a democracy? |
#10
posted to rec.boats.cruising
|
|||
|
|||
Nautical Charts
Wayne.B wrote:
On 2 Mar 2006 05:29:17 -0800, wrote: Here's a little follow-up on what NOAA is doing with the nautical charts. Dave, thanks for the information, and kudos to NOAA for finally realizing that we shouldn't have to pay twice. I was always infuriated by the sweet heart/monopoly deal that Maptech was awarded in the past. The online chart viewer seems to work well and is a nice addition. Here in the UK, the UK Hydrographic Office will not allow us to receive tidal information through software such as Tides32 since it (theUKHO) deems that all such info belongs to the UKHO, and must be paid for. Unable to control the tides, they control the information about the tides. The British Government very cleverly "privatised" the UKHO, making it a profit-making body, whilst retaining all the Crown Copyright rights it had had as a government body. Who carried out most of the depth surveys you see on British charts, The Royal Navy of course, at taxpayers expense! The depth info is also Crown Copyright, unless you happen to hit an uncharted rock, then it becomes your problem. Like I said, you are so lucky across the pond. Dennis. |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Free downloads of official NOAA raster charts | General | |||
charts and parts mailing list -- announcement | General | |||
Free NOAA ENC Charts vs. Free Maptech Charts | Cruising | |||
US Water BSB charts now free (NOAA RNCs) | Electronics | |||
Fugawi Demo Software - Supports new free BSB charts | Cruising |