Nautical

More Nautical Charts in Google Earth
Another collection of nautical charts for use within Google Earth, this time from Navimatics (KML link). The marine maps cover the coastline of the lower 48, and are derived from NOAA’s Electronic Navigational Charts. Via Ogle Earth and Free… »
Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Categories: Google Earth, Nautical
Nautical Map Symbols
On the Making Maps: DIY Cartography blog, John Krygier has a post about nautical symbols, both past (circa 1957) and present…. »
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Categories: Cartography, Nautical
Atlantic Neptune Auctioned for C$900,000
Canadian newspapers are reporting that the collection of Canadiana up for auction this week (see previous entry) went for the equivalent of $1.5 million (Canadian) — the Atlantic Neptune itself selling for the equivalent of around $900,000. (The article… »
Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Categories: Collecting, Nautical
Rare Book Auction Features Copy of Atlantic Neptune
The rare book collection of the late Frank Streeter goes up for auction next Monday at Christie’s in New York; among the significant early Canadiana highlighted by this Canadian wire-service article about the auction is a copy of the… »
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Categories: Collecting, Nautical
Nautical Charts in Google Earth
The data for NOAA’s nautical charts is free and available for download, but not necessarily usable in your software application. EarthNC has taken more than 600 NOAA charts and converted them into something Google Earth can use. They’re selling… »
Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Categories: Google Earth, Nautical
1563 Nautical Atlas Discovered in Czech Library
Czech historians working in the research library in the city of Olomouc stumbled across a copy of a 1563 nautical atlas — only the sixth known to exist — by the Catalan cartographer Jaume Olives, Radio Praha reports. The… »
Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 9:37 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Nautical
The Analog GPS
The Analog GPS: “Take your batteries and slavish dependence on other high-tech flummery and heave it overboard. With this device, you can pinpoint your location anywhere on earth and not be reliant on dodgy bits of information being projected… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Categories: Nautical
Nicolay Rutter to Be Auctioned This Week
A copy of the first accurate map of Scotland — a “rutter,” a book of sailing directions — is to be auctioned this week in Edinburgh, BBC News and The Scotsman report. The “Nicolay rutter” is a 1583 copy… »
Posted on Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Categories: Collecting, Nautical
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
A new book from the University of Chicago Press looks interesting: Cartographies of Travel and Navigation, edited by James R. Akerman, a collection of essays about the history of all kinds of transportation-related maps — railroads, roads, nautical and… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Categories: Aviation, Books, Nautical, Railroads, Roads
The Atlantic Neptune
The Atlantic Neptune, “a magnificent four-volume atlas of sea charts and views of the east coast of North America, published during the American Revolutionary War by Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres (1722-1824),” has been scanned and put online by… »
Posted on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 1:01 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Nautical
Zoomatron
Zoomatron uses MapCruncher to overlay nautical charts on top of the Virtual Earth interface. Massachusetts and Washington states. The method reminds me of what Skyvector.com did with aeronautical charts. Via Windows Live Local/Virtual Earth. See previous entries: MapCruncher Update; MapCruncher…. »
Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 10:02 AM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, Nautical
NOAA Nautical Chart Downloads
NOAA’s nautical charts are available for free download as raster images in BSB format, GPS Tracklog reports. Rich mentions that the files can be used in OziExplorer; NOAA has a list of software and an online viewer…. »
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 at 10:24 PM
Categories: Nautical
Agnese’s Portolan Atlas
I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned portolan charts on The Map Room yet. In that vein, don’t miss peacay’s big post on BibliOdyssey about Battista Agnese’s sixteenth-century Portolan Atlas, scans of which are available on several sites…. »
Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 5:58 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Nautical
Sailwx.info: Mapping the Oceans
Sailwx.info’s real-time map of ship locations (based on data from the Voluntary Observing Ships program) has been getting a lot of play on the web lately — I first saw it on La Cartoteca — but the site has a… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 3:40 PM
Categories: Nautical, Weather & Climate
Question: Info on Copper Engraved Plates?
Charles Ryan writes, “I am looking for information on copper engraved plates used — many, many years ago — for producing maps and charts, particularly for Naval Hydrographic Office charts. Can you recommend a source for doing some research or… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 3:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Nautical, Questions
Exhibition Roundup: NOAA, Versailles, Miami, Bangkok
Some upcoming map and map-related exhibitions to tell you about: Silver Spring, Maryland: From a NOAA press release: “Artifacts representing nearly 200 years of science, service and stewardship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its ancestor agencies will… »
Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 7:59 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, Nautical
NOAA’s Historical Map and Chart Collection
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey’s Historical Map and Chart Collection “contains over 20,000 maps and charts from the late 1700s to present day. The Collection includes some of the nation’s earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys, topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city… »
Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 7:29 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Nautical, Surveying, Topo Maps & Trails
Motor Boating on Navigation Software
Another review of navigation software from the September 2005 issue of Motor Boating magazine (see previous entry)…. »
Posted on Thursday, September 1, 2005 at 8:38 PM
Categories: Nautical, Software
Electronic Charts for Boaters
Motor Boating’s Electronics department periodically reviews charting and navigation software (see previous entry); this review of three brands is from their June 2005 issue…. »
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 9:19 AM
Categories: Nautical, Software
Digital Navigation for Kayakers
Sea Kayaker magazine has an extensive guide to digital navigation — i.e., using a GPS, digitized maps and mapping software — in its February 2005 issue. Via Gadling…. »
Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 3:36 PM
Categories: GPS, Nautical
GPSNavX
As you know, I like to keep track of what Mac mapping or GPS software is out there. Here’s another one: GPSNavX, which is boating software — both navigation and GPS — for OS X. The folks behind this one… »
Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 10:38 AM
Categories: Macintosh, Nautical
Boating Software
I don’t think there’s a single area of mapping where software isn’t displacing traditional maps. That goes for navigational charts, too. Motor Boating has a review of recent navigation software for recreational boaters. Some of it’s quite pricey, but let’s… »
Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:41 PM
Categories: Nautical, Software

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