Thanks for sharing Michael.
I don't recall hearing about this. We treat nautical charts like they're not copyrighted (giving high resolution tiffs to anyone who wants them).
Can someone explain why NOAA/NGA maps are copyrighted?
This is another reason to be careful about weeding collections simply because maps are online. These online map collections are so ephemeral.
Angie
AGSL
opinions are my own
Original message: Hi,Not too long ago, the nauticalcharts.noaa.gov website hosted indexes to NGA nautical charts of non-US waters and hi-res versions of charts from the handful of regions (1, 5 and 9?) that they still had permission to make freely available.
I don't see this resource available anymore. Has it moved, or has NGA removed all of their nautical charts from free public access?
Thank you.Michael FryMap Librarian and Map EditorNational Geographic Society
OCS response: Thank you for contacting NOAA. Due to copyright restrictions, we had to remove all NGA charts from our web site.