[Rhodes22-list] Free Navigation Charts - Swan Creek

Mark Kaynor mark at kaynor.org
Mon Apr 21 11:44:34 EDT 2003


FYI Chesapeake Rhodies,

The ENC chart w/ Swan Creek and Middle River on it is Us5md12m. South River
& Annapolis are on Us5md13m, and Us517m covers the southern part of the
Chester River down to the Miles River, including St. Michaels and the Wye
River.

Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Free Navigation Charts


> Check out this website.
>
> http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov
>
> The government is in the process of making marine
> navigation charts available to the public in digital
> format for free.  You can download a viewer from the
> website for free or order a cd from fugawi.com for $19
> with the viewer included.  The Army Corps of Engineers
> is working on a database for inland waterways as well.
>  Right now the Coast Guard has charts available for
> most of the Cheasapeake and the East Coast. The beauty
> of this format is that you can choose your scale,
> level of detail, and then print as many copies as
> desired.  Also, for you East Coast, Gulf Coast, New
> England,  and Cheasapeake Rhodies, copies of the Coast
> Pilot for your area is available for download as well.
>
> This format is still evolving and is not as
> user-friendly as most of the commercial products but
> it doesn't cost $500 like Maptech either.
>
> Brad Haslett
>
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