When I traveled around Europe as a young man, my first stop upon leaving the train station in a new city was at the tourist bureau kiosk for a paper city map. On a recent trip to Malaysia, I used my ...

Two different renderings of NOAA Electronic Navigational Chart (NOAA ENC®) data of the Columbia River, Oregon. The top image is from an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) and the ...

NOAA's Office of Coast Survey produces nautical charts for U.S. coastal waters, including the Great Lakes and U.S. territories. Cartographers create new nautical charts by piecing together a puzzle.

Capt. Jon Cooper has fished the patch reefs on the Atlantic side of Florida’s upper Keys for years, using his chart plotter to zero in on small, rocky outcroppings to drop a line for tasty hogfish or ...

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 ...