On 23 Oct 2006 15:57:50 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Can it be? The entire inventory of NOAA charts now available for about
what we used to pay for one or two paper charts? If so, that would be
great.

Why would you pay $30 or $40 when you can download the exact same
charts for free?

*That* (free) is about as affordable as you can get. :-)

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On 23 Oct 2006 15:57:50 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Can it be? The entire inventory of NOAA charts now available for about
what we used to pay for one or two paper charts? If so, that would be
great.

Why would you pay $30 or $40 when you can download the exact same
charts for free?

*That* (free) is about as affordable as you can get. :-)

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm

Because it is worth 30 bucks to have someone else download them and write
them on a DVD or two? How many hours would it take you to do it
yourself? And nothing stopping you from going into business selling
them for 25. The data is public domain, from the government, right?

del

"Del Cecchi" wrote in message
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On 23 Oct 2006 15:57:50 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Can it be? The entire inventory of NOAA charts now available for about
what we used to pay for one or two paper charts? If so, that would be
great.

Why would you pay $30 or $40 when you can download the exact same
charts for free?

*That* (free) is about as affordable as you can get. :-)

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm

Because it is worth 30 bucks to have someone else download them and write
them on a DVD or two? How many hours would it take you to do it yourself?
And nothing stopping you from going into business selling them for 25.
The data is public domain, from the government, right?

del


I think for selling them you have to license them from the Feds.

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:24:08 -0500, "Del Cecchi"
wrote:

Because it is worth 30 bucks to have someone else download them and write
them on a DVD or two? How many hours would it take you to do it
yourself?

If you're already sitting at the computer doing something else, it
really doesn't take all that long once you learn the process. Most
folks really only need a small sub set of the entire chart catalog.

You can download 10 or 20 charts in a matter of minutes.

On Oct 23, 5:18*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On 23 Oct 2006 15:57:50 -0700, "Chuck Gould"

wrote:
Can it be? The entire inventory of NOAA charts now available for about
what we used to pay for one or two paper charts? *If so, that would be
great.Why would you pay $30 or $40 when you can download the exact same
charts for free?

*That* (free) is about as affordable as you can get. * :-)

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm


I think the value is in the indexing and organizing, along with the
sampling of various electro-nav programs contained on the disc. I don't
know about you, but I'm not inclined to spend too many hours at a task
in order to save 30 bucks.