I can get free maps of any land area in the world on the net why is the gov not releasing free water way maps. any ideas. also why is there not a free sharing of maps from sailor to sailor, should be the same laws as road maps?
where are free maps
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you can get the maps free from NOAA, BUT
they are in a format unreadable by Raytech and the like. Their is a utility that converts them to standard format, and i used to have a copy, but my HDD crashed and i lost it. Luckily i had the maps i use (lots of south Florida and some world maps) on CD-R. If anyone wants to trade map libraries, just email me, I have a big web server, my libary is 127mb.. All my maps are in .geo and .nos formats (readable by Raytech Navigator, Captn, etc..) unwiredone2003@yahoo.com
they are in a format unreadable by Raytech and the like. Their is a utility that converts them to standard format, and i used to have a copy, but my HDD crashed and i lost it. Luckily i had the maps i use (lots of south Florida and some world maps) on CD-R. If anyone wants to trade map libraries, just email me, I have a big web server, my libary is 127mb.. All my maps are in .geo and .nos formats (readable by Raytech Navigator, Captn, etc..) unwiredone2003@yahoo.com
Look here
http://www.rosepointnav.com/default.htm you can also search for FREE ENC viewers and then go to NOAA nad download FREE Nav charts.... Pretty cool
http://www.rosepointnav.com/default.htm you can also search for FREE ENC viewers and then go to NOAA nad download FREE Nav charts.... Pretty cool
US Sailors are Fortunate
In the US your charts and maps are in the public domain by law. Almost everywhere else in the world this is not the case. States have their own Hydrographic Offices which are mostly government funded but which try to make a profit on their products. What the UK office has done is to sign up all others wanting to distribute UK charts with a deal to receive the monthly chart corrections - for a fee. In return I believe each country agrees NOT to distribute this information for free and also every purchaser must pay a royalty to the UKHO. You are lucky guys!
In the US your charts and maps are in the public domain by law. Almost everywhere else in the world this is not the case. States have their own Hydrographic Offices which are mostly government funded but which try to make a profit on their products. What the UK office has done is to sign up all others wanting to distribute UK charts with a deal to receive the monthly chart corrections - for a fee. In return I believe each country agrees NOT to distribute this information for free and also every purchaser must pay a royalty to the UKHO. You are lucky guys!
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