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Subject: Re: Have Lithographic Print Nautical Charts Gone Down With the
Ship?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:38:06 -0400
From: Fry, Michael <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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NOAA has an FAQ about this. What I'd like to know is what NOAA means by
their statement [from the FAQ here:
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/docs/FAQ%20lithographic%20chart%20announcement.pdf]
that they have "neither the facilities, nor the budget, nor the
appropriate authority, nor the expertise to stand up or contract for a
print-stock-sell operation."
I suppose it's a moot point, but how is it possible that the fed'l
agency--the one in the charting business for two centuries, and one
whose charts large vessels are required to possess--doesn't have the
authority to print said charts? What's missing here? And who, btw, was
printing Coast Survey charts before FAA took the job if it wasn't NOAA/OCS?
mf
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Michael Fry
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National Geographic Society
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
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Subject: Have Lithographic Print Nautical Charts Gone Down
With the Ship?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:51:18 -0400
From: Holly Budd <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced that
to save money, the government will stop printing the traditional
lithographic paper chart, that has been NOAA’s signature product,
trusted by mariners, since President Thomas Jefferson asked for a
survey
of the coast in 1807.
My commentary at my blog: Have Lithographic Print Nautical Charts Gone
Down With the Ship?
http://mapprinter.wordpress.__com/2013/10/25/have-__lithographic-print-nautical-__charts-gone-down-with-the-__ship/
<http://mapprinter.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/have-lithographic-print-nautical-charts-gone-down-with-the-ship/>
Holly
Holly Heintz Budd
President/CEO
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