![]() Note that it’s already possible to produce paper charts based on NOAA’s primary Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs), as detailed below. NOAA raster navigational charts (NOAA RNC).Print-on-demand (POD) paper nautical charts. ![]() I’ll start by breaking down the specific plan announced today, and then go into why this hurts personally and what we traditional chart lovers can do to smooth the full transition to charts drawn by algorithms. Traditional raster charts on paper or screens probably aren’t going away soon, paper charts are not going away at all, and many improvements in vector-based electronic charts are in the works. The demise of the traditional chart is going to be sad for many of us, no doubt about it.īut please don’t jump to dire conclusions until you know all that NOAA plans. And since I can’t keep my mouth shut, I learned that some of our “Nation’s Nautical Chartmakers” are also feeling the pain. But during a recent conference call with Capt Chris van Westendorp, Marine Chart Chief John Nyberg and several of their colleagues at NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, a genuine feeling of grief bubbled up within me. Things are just things, right, and they don’t really die. NOAA will no longer update charts that look like this, paper and electronic, by 2025 or sooner
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