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Subject: Re: Have Lithographic Print Nautical Charts Gone Down With the
Ship?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:25:05 -0500
From: Mark Walker <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I think the demand for printed charts is just not there. Commercial
shipping uses chart plotters and therefore requires a digital chart.
I recently looked into becoming a NOAA agent. They don't have the nice
PDF files like USGS supplies. If they did it would allow for a print on
demand model that would keep hard copies available. They aren't going to
stop producing data. Maybe they could afford to have the data formatted
and made available. I would happily plot charts for customers. I have
standing orders as it is.
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> On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:39 PM, "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
> Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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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/
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> <http://mapprinter.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/have-lithographic-print-nautical-charts-gone-down-with-the-ship/>
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