After a three-month trial period, PDF versions of NOAA nautical charts will become a permanent product, free to the public. The free PDFs, which are digital images of traditional nautical charts, are ...

In November 2019, the Office of Coast Survey (OCS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), announced the start of a five-year program to “sunset” all raster and paper ...

Across high-stakes sea operations, a mapping platform establishes a new reference point for automating printed navigation used in paper chart series and modern nautical charts. After months of ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has managed to unravel the mysteries hidden for two hundred years in an 18th-century navigation chart used by sailors to travel across the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Built between 1817 and 1825, the Erie Canal provided a water route from Albany to Buffalo, New York, nearly 363 miles ...