Cool chart browser

[FSS172]

Hours of winter dreaming here....

http://www.oceangrafix.com/o.g/index.html

Select a region on that page, then select your desired chart on the next. When the chart page comes up, click on the chart image toward the bottom of the page and a neat viewer opens. On a Mac you can navigate with arrow keys for panning and the 'a' and 'z' keys to zoom. No habla PC...

[Bruce Hooke]

Very cool. Thanks!

[rbgarr]

Over the (very chilly) weekend I went to a charity sports equipment sale at the local YMCA. For ten bucks I got one of those Maptech large format chart books that covers Block Island to Passamaquoddy Bay. I spent the early afternoon poring over the aerial photos of harbors and islands, the large and small scale charts and accompanying insets.

I was warmed by wonderful memories they brought back and excited by dreams of new places to visit each instilled. It was all I could do to not start measuring off new courses.

The leaves needed raking before dark.

[Dave Davis]

Here's NOAA's site for charts:

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/OnLineViewer.html

[FSS172]

Here's NOAA's site for charts:

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/OnLineViewer.html

Looks like the same viewer. Makes sense since Oceangrafix is NOAA's partner (they provide the print-on-demand service for NOAA). But it's been a while since I've been on the NOAA site and while I was there, I noticed this new product (listed as 'experimental')

http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/BookletChart.html

designed to be printed by the user and current to the latest NM and LNM... Not sure how I feel about the format but I'm gonna print one out and take it for a test drive. Anyhow, thanks for getting me back there for a look...

Jim