Road atlases are still published, but you wouldn’t know it if you have a smartphone and Google Maps. Most pilots who got their license a decade ago started on paper maps, but the iPad rules the ...

The federal government is going into uncharted waters, deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it has been printing for mariners for more than 150 years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

After a three-month trial period, PDF versions of NOAA nautical charts will become a permanent product, free to the public. The free PDFs, which are digital images of traditional nautical charts, are ...

TCart a has introduced a new line of Satellite Reconnaissance Charts designed to complement official marine navigation maps in shallow waters. These digital maps, derived from recently acquired ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Every day, sailors from Apalachicola to Carrabelle take to the gulf, filling nets with the day’s catch. Those who work on the water often rely on nautical charts provided by ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with surveying the nation's navigable waters to help keep mariners off the rocks and out of the shallows, will cease ...

Across high-stakes sea operations, a mapping platform establishes a new reference point for automating printed navigation used in paper chart series and modern nautical charts.

Centuries-old nautical charts, mapped by long-deceased sailors to avoid shipwrecks, have been used by modern scientists to study loss of coral reefs. A new study compared early British charts to ...

Through the cooperation between the Saudi Red Sea Authority (SRSA) and the General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GEOSA), the first high-precision nautical chart, in both paper and ...

The rare 14th-century portolan chart is worth $7.5 million. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of an estate ...