Did you know that NOAA is retiring the paper-based navigational charts we all know and use, in favor of electronic charts? This process officially began in 2021, is underway over the next 5 years, and it will affect all of us. Many if not all of the chart products we use today, both online and offline, will be altered radically. Some have changed already, as NOAA withdraws support for some digital services based on the old charts. But they're not just taking the traditional products away, they're giving us brand new tools to let us create our own paper charts, and these are worth knowing about.
Joe Berkovitz describes what our government is changing about nautical charts, why they're doing it, and examine the good and bad things about the change. He takes a detailed walk through the use of NOAA's new online custom chart generator which produces PDFs of the new electronic charts covering any desired area. NOAA has stated that this tool is the official replacement for the old paper-based charts (including the digital downloads).
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NOAA Custom Chart:
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Office of Coast Survey Chart Locator
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Margot Otway's, "How to print out a deck chart using the Custom Chart tool"
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