This guy, Dan Pfeiffer, has gone into great explanations on digital
charts and resources, on an owners group (Pearsons). I'll bet if you
noodle around on his site for a bit you'll find out a lot on where to
locate the raw data you are seeking. The address is:
http://dan.pfeiffer.net/maps/maps.htm

Good luck,

Jonathan

Skip Gundlach wrote:
My apologies. Though I know that this has seen the light of day here in the
past, my expected source for copied charts seems ephemeral if not
unavailable, after all (unless I want to fly to Chicago and go the library
there and live on the copiers up *there* - I'm near Atlanta - for however
long it would take).

So, in the past, I think I recall that governmental charts are available for
download and printing. I've got a potential source for large-scale printing
at an economical rate, so I'd like to explore that opportunity.

However, I've not been able to discover a catalog which could identify which
charts I'd want. The general area I'm interested in is the Eastern
Caribbean, essentially from the Bahamas to Venezuela - including the keys
and Cuba, and on the other end, the ABCs, if that's not already part of the
definition.

Does anyone have a URL for that catalog, and also the way to find how to
download the ones of interest? I've tried to search for DMA, NEMA, NOAA and
others, and even called the governmental office, which led me to a useless
FAA site.

Failing the above, I'd be interested, actually, probably more, in knowing
where to find charts and a large-scale copier in the Atlanta area (in the
same location - I have found a couple of university reference departments
with charts, but no catalog, and no copier).

Thanks...

L8R

Skip

Skip,

I think the site you are looking for is
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm

This is the official site for the free NOAA ENC charts. There is a
directory of all available charts, and you check the ones you want and
download them. You'll have to download a free viewer as well. The
site tells you where to look. I went to SeeMyDNC for the viewer.
Just learning how to use these.

Shane Kelley
s/v Dream Chaser


Skip Gundlach wrote:
My apologies. Though I know that this has seen the light of day here in the
past, my expected source for copied charts seems ephemeral if not
unavailable, after all (unless I want to fly to Chicago and go the library
there and live on the copiers up *there* - I'm near Atlanta - for however
long it would take).

So, in the past, I think I recall that governmental charts are available for
download and printing. I've got a potential source for large-scale printing
at an economical rate, so I'd like to explore that opportunity.

However, I've not been able to discover a catalog which could identify which
charts I'd want. The general area I'm interested in is the Eastern
Caribbean, essentially from the Bahamas to Venezuela - including the keys
and Cuba, and on the other end, the ABCs, if that's not already part of the
definition.

Does anyone have a URL for that catalog, and also the way to find how to
download the ones of interest? I've tried to search for DMA, NEMA, NOAA and
others, and even called the governmental office, which led me to a useless
FAA site.

Failing the above, I'd be interested, actually, probably more, in knowing
where to find charts and a large-scale copier in the Atlanta area (in the
same location - I have found a couple of university reference departments
with charts, but no catalog, and no copier).

Thanks...

L8R

Skip

Skip,

I think the site you are looking for is
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm

This is the official site for the free NOAA ENC charts. There is a
directory of all available charts, and you check the ones you want and
download them. You'll have to download a free viewer as well. The
site tells you where to look. I went to SeeMyDNC for the viewer.
Just learning how to use these.

Shane Kelley
s/v Dream Chaser


Skip Gundlach wrote:
My apologies. Though I know that this has seen the light of day here in the
past, my expected source for copied charts seems ephemeral if not
unavailable, after all (unless I want to fly to Chicago and go the library
there and live on the copiers up *there* - I'm near Atlanta - for however
long it would take).

So, in the past, I think I recall that governmental charts are available for
download and printing. I've got a potential source for large-scale printing
at an economical rate, so I'd like to explore that opportunity.

However, I've not been able to discover a catalog which could identify which
charts I'd want. The general area I'm interested in is the Eastern
Caribbean, essentially from the Bahamas to Venezuela - including the keys
and Cuba, and on the other end, the ABCs, if that's not already part of the
definition.

Does anyone have a URL for that catalog, and also the way to find how to
download the ones of interest? I've tried to search for DMA, NEMA, NOAA and
others, and even called the governmental office, which led me to a useless
FAA site.

Failing the above, I'd be interested, actually, probably more, in knowing
where to find charts and a large-scale copier in the Atlanta area (in the
same location - I have found a couple of university reference departments
with charts, but no catalog, and no copier).

Thanks...

L8R

Skip