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Free downloads of official NOAA raster charts
Are available at:
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/charts.htm If you have these charts aboard, you will be considered in compliance with USCG regulations and the NOAA electronic charts are now considered fully compliant with SOLAS standards. (I need to research whether having the charts available as an electronic file, only, without a printed copy generated from the file qualifies. I know the commercial ships now print their own "official" charts as they approach a region, so this leads me to believe these may have to be printed out to be in compliance. Anybody know for an absolute fact?) Value-added providers, (firms that take these charts, add additional or peripheral information, and then repackage them for resale) will need to conform to a set of NOAA-specified practices for the raster charts to maintain their "official" status. |
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