NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation’s suite of over a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, today announced major changes ahead for mariners and others who ...

NOAA nautical charts depict them all, using different symbols that indicate the purpose of each. Scale: Nautical charts come in different “scales,” the ratio of a given distance on the chart to the ...

It won't be long before mariners and the boating public will have a wider choice of options and special services when they purchase NOAA paper nautical charts, thanks to NOAA's expanded "print-on ...

Today, NOAA cartographers from the Marine Chart Division are converting paper nautical charts to a digital format and incorporating them into NOAA electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC). NOAA ...

"Since 1862, those lithographic nautical ... we can get any chart for U.S. waters at the drop of a hat — and the beauty is it's always updated." The Associated Press says: "NOAA sells about ...

The survey, which began June 24 and should conclude Aug. 2, will provide data to update NOAA’s nautical charts. The charts will be available about two years after the survey is complete ...