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

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Subject: [MAPS-L] NGA Nautical charts

 

Maybe this isn't news to you all, but I just discovered that the online index and chart viewer that gave the public access to hi-res versions of NGA's nautical charts of non-US coastal waters worldwide have been taken down from NOAA's site. (A couple of years ago they removed most charts due to copyright restrictions. Now they've removed them all.) 

See my correspondence with NOAA/OCS below...

For the moment, some charts are still viewable online at www.nauticalchartsonline.com. Not sure how long that'll last if copyright is the obstacle to free online access.

mf

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 Fry

Map Librarian and Map Editor

National Geographic Society

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OCS response: Thank you for contacting NOAA. Due to copyright restrictions, we had to remove all NGA charts from our web site.

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Michael Fry
Map Editor and Senior Map Librarian
National Geographic Society
1145 17th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
202.857.7098 and 202.791.1892 

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